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Show !38 LlFB OF GBN. JACKSON. CHAP. had been destroyed; and an end put to tl~e hopes they IV. had founded on our previous delays. Discontent had ~been kept from our ranks ; tl1e troops had been bene· 1814• ficially employed ; and inactivity, the bane of every army had been avoided. But perhaps the greatest gooi that resulted from the expedition was the effect produced on the minds of the people at home, from whom was to be collected a force sufficient to terminate the war. Experience has often proved the facility with which numbers are brought to a victorious standard ; whilst the ranks of a defeated army are ever with difficulty filled. Any result, therefore, that was ca~cu· lated to bring an efficient force into the field, was h1gh· ly important and beneficial. LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAPTER V. The volunteers are discharged.-Execution of a solt.lier, n.nU the etfect produced.-New troops arrive.-Want of sup plies.- Conduct of genoral Cocke.-General Jackson marches against the Indians.-Battle of Tohopeka.-Returns to Fort 'Villiams.-Expedition to I-Ioithlewalee; its failure, and the causes.-Forms a junction with the Georgia troops, and proceeds to the Hickory ground.-Indians sue for peace.-Weatherford.-Arrival of general Pinckney at head quarters.-Tennessee troops are ordered to be march ~ ed home, and dismissed. 139 The troops having reached, in safety, the post whence CHAP. they had set out, and their term of service being with- V · in a short time of expiring, the general determined to,_,...,.._, discharge them. The information from Tennessee, 18 14 · was, that there would soon be in the field a consider-able force, enlisted for il period sufficient to effect a termination of the Indian war. He was desirous of having every thing in readiness, by the time of their arrival, that they might be moved, without delay, into active service. Detaining his late volunteers, there-fore, a short time, to complete boats, for tl1e h-ansport-ation of his camp equipage and provisions down the Yol"n· Coosa, he ordered them to be marched home, and to ~~~~;,;~~::. be honourably dismissed. The further service of his ed. ·' artillery company was also dispensed with. His part· ing interview with them was interesting and affecting |