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Show 146 LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAP. sufficiency of provisions on hand to last five days; 110)" V. was there a probability that there would be any change ~of circumstances for the better ;-that should they once 1814. be placed in the power of Jackson, h e wou ld , WI" th th e regular force under-his command, t?mpel_ them to serve as long as he pleased. Expresswns like these, to men who had never before been in the field, and coming from one who had already been employed in a respectable command, were well calculated to pr~duce serious impressions. Doherty, who was a bngadier in the first division, was at~ loss to know how he should proceed with his own maJor general, who had obtruded himself into his camp, and .was endeavouring to excite revolt; he accordingly despatched an ex- > • press to head quarters, to give _informatio~ of what was passing. The messenger arnved, and, _m ret_urn, received an order to Doherty, comrnandmg h1m, peremptorily, to seize, and send under g~ard to Fort Strother every officer, without regard to h1s rank, who should be found, in any maimer, attempting to incite his army to mutiny. General Cocke, perhaps apprehending what was going on, had retire~ before this order mTived, an<). thus ·escaped the pumshment due to 50 aggravated an offence. . . About this time, colonel Dyer was despatched With · six hundred men, with qrders to proceed to the head of the Black W a!Tior, and ascertain if m1y force of the Indians was embodied in that quarter, and disperse ihem, that they might not, through this route, get i.n the rear of the army, and cut off the supplies. This detachment having proceeded eight days through th.e ridges along the Cohawba, had fallen in with a trail LIFE OF GEN. JACKSON. 147 the enemy had passed, stretching eastwardly, and had CHAP. followed it for some distance. Apprehending that the._:;.._, army might be on the eve of departing from Fort Stro- 1814_ ther, and being able to gain no certain information of the savages, they desisted from the pursuit, and retum-ed to camp. That there might be no troops in the field, in a situation not to be serviceable, orders were given the brigadiers, to dismiss from the ranks every invalid, and all who were not well armed. General Jackson havin~, at Iength, by constant and unremitted exertions, obtained what supplies were necessary to enable him to proceed, determined to set out and pursue his course, still further into the ene- March. my's country. A fear of the consequences to an ar-my, from inaction; a wish that their time might not be loitered away uselessly ; and a consciousness that a sufficiency of provisions was on the way, and could be sent to him from the post maintained in his rear, prompted him to do so. On the 14th, he commenced his march, and crossing the river, a!Tived Ma,·ches th 2 ' from Fort on e lst, at the mouth of Cedar creek, which had St•·othe.· been previously fixed on for the establishment of a~~· 3~:'' fort.* At this place, it became necessary to delay a enemy day or two, with a view to detail a sufficient force, for the protection and safety of this point, and to wait the coming of the provision boats, which were descending the Coosa, and which, as yet, had not arrived. On the ~d of January, the day of the battle of Emuckfaw, general Coffee, as has been already stated, • Fort Williams. |
