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But before we got there, two more of our men died of wounds they had received, making our total loss seventeen good fellows in that battle." Indian Warfare. The Army at Fort Strother. Crockett's Regiment. Crockett at Home. His Reenlistment. Jackson Surprised. Military Ability of the Indians. Humiliation of the Creeks. March to Florida. Affairs at Pensacola. Capture of the City.
Through the governor, in fact, that letter roused the whole State, and soon a new army was on the way from West Tennessee, while Cocke was marching another force southward from East Tennessee. With some five hundred raw recruits that reached him before Cocke's first command left, Jackson held Fort Strother. He even ventured to make a raid into the enemy's country, aiming at the town of Emuckfau.
The succeeding day, the weary troops, much refreshed, reached a point on the River Coosa opposite Fort Strother, and crossing the stream, found there shelter and plenty of provisions. We know not, and do not care to know, who was responsible for this military movement, which seems to us now as senseless as it was cruel and disastrous.
That I have not exaggerated in saying that he was almost on the verge of starvation during these dark years is evidenced by the following word picture from the pen of General Strother, of Virginia, known in the world of literature under the pen name of "Porte Crayon": "I engaged to become Morse's pupil, and subsequently went to New York and found him in a room in University Place.
The Second lost some gallant line officers. When the order was given to charge the color bearer of the Eighth, Sergeant Strother, of Chesterfield, a tall, handsome man of six feet three in height, carrying the beautiful banner presented to the regiment by the ladies of Pee Dee, fell dead within thirty yards of the enemy's works. All the color guard were either killed or wounded.
Shelby Strother, had told George he would help him get his bride to America if he wanted to marry the pretty teacher. Blessings on that warm-hearted Consul. He helped eight of the boys to bring away their brides. In this volume is a picture of a doughboy-barishna wedding party, Joe Chinzi and Elena Farizy.
I paid the money, all that I had, and we dined together. It was a modest meal, but good, and after he had finished, he said: "This is my first meal for twenty-four hours. Strother, don't be an artist. It means beggary. Your life depends upon people who know nothing of your art and care nothing for you.
But I never had naught to say for mysen, though there was a deal o' shoutin', and old Sammy Strother, as were almost clemmed to death and doubled up with the rheumatics, would sing out, 'Joyful! Joyful! and 'at it were better to go up to heaven in a coal-basket than down to hell i' a coach an' six. And he would put his poor old claw on my shoulder, sayin', 'Doesn't tha feel it, tha great lump?
Strother, the second son, lost a leg at Chancellorsville and died soon after the war; and Randolph, the fourth son, captain on the staff of the Stonewall Brigade, and now a distinguished lawyer in Baltimore, was seven times wounded, while Robert, a member of our battery, and a gallant soldier, was the only one of the five brothers in the service who survived the war unscathed.
I said to Strother on the other peak: 'Six thousand? He replied: 'No, eight thousand! I said: 'In center or on their right flank? He replied: 'On their right flank. I said: 'Two thousand fresh horses? He replied: 'Nearer twenty-five hundred. I said: 'Five hundred fresh beeves from the other side of the Blue Ridge. He replied: 'Great news, we need 'em! I wish it was true, but it will set our Yankee friends to thinking."
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