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The next blow was struck at Talladega, thirty miles below Fort Strother, where a body of friendly Indians were besieged by a larger body of Red Sticks. Relying on General White, who was in the neighborhood with a force of Cocke's East Tennesseans, to protect Fort Strother, Jackson marched by night to Talladega.
"It's my will that we git back to the rest of the men as soon as we can. I reckon, Mr. Crockett, that them Tennesseans of yours wouldn't head in the other direction if a fight grew hot." "I reckon that wild horses couldn't drag 'em away," said Crockett dryly. "Then we'll go back an' j'in 'em." "To hold a caucus, so to speak." "I don't know what a cow-cuss is."
To the office and his new surroundings he brought the qualities they supremely demanded, a will that no man ever subdued, a desperate courage which not even the Tennesseans could match, and a swift, intuitive perception of the way to act in emergencies.
"On the 1st August he sold the buggy and bought the remains of an old sulky said he just wanted to see those green Tennesseans stare and gawk when they saw him come a-ripping along in a sulky didn't believe they'd ever heard of a sulky in their lives.
Andy Jackson kept me from going back to Washington, an' so me an' these twelve good friends of mine, Tennesseans like myself, have come here to help free Texas." He reached out his hand and Ned grasped it. The boy felt a thrill. The name of Davy Crockett was a great one in the southwest, and here he was, face to face, hands gripped with the great borderer. "This is Mr.
For three years General Jackson was mainly occupied with the duties of a military officer in time of peace; but he was also employed to make treaties with several Indian tribes, and won another royal welcome home from the Tennesseans by throwing open to settlement large areas of Indian lands.
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