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He looked down at the man and said: "What is it, Strother?" "Riflemen of the enemy are not more than three or four hundred yards away. If you go much farther, General, they will certainly see you and fire upon you." "Thanks, Strother. So they've located us?" "They're about to do it. They're feeling around. We've seen 'em in the bushes. We ask you not to go on, General.
How very poor Morse was about this time is indicated by a story afterwards told by General Strother of Virginia, who was one of his pupils: I engaged to become Morse's pupil and subsequently went to New York and found him in a room in University Place. He had three or four other pupils and I soon found that our professor had very little patronage.
His energy was great, but without food he could not, as he desired, dash at once into the enemy's country. He moved southward when he had food, halted when it gave out, and finally reached the Coosa. From his camp there, which he named Fort Strother, he dispatched Coffee to strike a first blow against the Creek town of Tallusahatchee.
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