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Accordingly he explained the plan to Tom and Joe, and said: "I'm going to-night down towards old Fort Mims, to see if the country is pretty free from Indians, and to find out what I can about the chance of getting away from here. I'll leave you here with Judie, and you must be extra careful about exposing yourselves.
"I will, Mrs Cottier," I said; "I'll always be a brother to Hugh." I was too deeply moved to say much more, for I had so long yearned for some woman like my mother to whom I could go for sympathy and to whom I could tell everything without the fear of being snubbed or laughed at. I just said, "Thank you, Mims."
When we had dressed the wound, I turned to the trap to lift out Mrs Cottier's parcels, which I carried indoors. Breakfast was ready on the table, and Mrs Cottier and Hugh were toasting some bread at the fire. My aunt was, of course, breakfasting upstairs with my uncle; he was hardly able to stir with sciatica, poor man; he needed somebody to feed him. "Good morning, Mims dear," I cried.
He knew nothing about the matter, however, and as Fort Mims, the first point attacked by the savages, was on the south-east side of the river, he reasoned that having afterwards crossed to Clarke County the Indians would not again cross to the south-east side in any considerable force. In this, as we know, he was mistaken, and the error led him into some danger, as we shall see.
The Fussells would have preferred it after Christmas, but they were very nice about it. There is Dolly's photograph in that double frame." "Are you quite certain that I'm not interrupting, Mrs. Wilcox?" "Yes, quite." "Then I will stay. I'm enjoying this." Dolly's photograph was now examined. It was signed "For dear Mims," which Mrs.
From the British and the Spaniards, the Indians received arms and ammunition. The first attack of these Indians was on August 13, 1813, at Fort Mims, in Alabama, where there were nearly two hundred American troops, and where five hundred people were collected for safety.
The Fussells would have preferred it after Christmas, but they were very nice about it. There is Dolly's photograph in that double frame." "Are you quite certain that I'm not interrupting, Mrs. Wilcox?" "Yes, quite." "Then I will stay. I'm enjoying this." Dolly's photograph was now examined. It was signed "For dear Mims," which Mrs.
From the port-holes of the block-house a fierce fire could be delivered, and as the square timbers were not easily set on fire, a body of Indians must be very determined indeed, if they succeeded in taking or destroying a block-house. At Fort Mims, however, they had done so, burning the house over the heads of the inmates.
Two hundred and fifty scalps were carried away on poles, and when troops arrived they found nothing but heaps of ashes, mutilated bodies, and buzzards feeding on the carrion. From Fort Mims the Indians overran the country like a frightful scourge, murdering and burning, until a vast region was emptied of its people.
Before plans of defense could be carried into effect, however, the war broke out, and the wretched people who had crowded into the flimsy stockade called by courtesy Fort Mims were massacred. Hardly had the heap of ruins, ghastly with human bodies, ceased to smolder before fleet riders were spreading the news in Georgia, in Louisiana, and in Tennessee. A shudder swept the country.
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