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1753: 1463: 123: 3021: 611: 1983: 636: 594: 2133: 396:, tensions within the Creek Nation split into factions. Creek nativists known as the Red Sticks wanted to keep traditional ways and argued against more accommodation of white settlers. But other Creek, who tended to have had more trading and other relations with whites, favored adopting elements of European-American culture. The Red Stick faction from the Upper Towns opposed both land cessions to settlers and the Lower Towns' assimilation into European-American culture. 52: 3032: 381: 2505: 2472: 2494: 2483: 532:. At the same time, they took control of the gun loopholes and the outer enclosure. Under Captain Bailey, the militia and settlers held the inner enclosure, fighting on for a time; after about two hours there was a pause of about an hour. The Creek, with their initial impetus blunted inside the fort and casualties rising, held an impromptu council to debate whether to continue the fight. By 3 o'clock, they decided that the Tensaw 2527: 497: 2516: 643: 618: 434: 400:
systematic slaughter of domestic livestock, most of which belonged to men who had gained power by adopting aspects of European culture. Not understanding internal issues among the Creek, frontier whites were alarmed about rising tensions and began 'forting up' and moving into various posts and blockhouses such as Fort Mims, while the states sent military reinforcements to the frontier.
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frontier. Settlers both demanded government action and fled the area. In the weeks following the battle, several thousand persons, about half the population of the Tensaw and Tombigbee districts, fled their settlements for Mobile. Its small population of 500 struggled to deal with them. The Red Stick
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The Creek launched a second attack at 3 pm. The remaining defenders fell back into a building called the 'bastion'. The Red Sticks set fire to the 'bastion', which spread out to the rest of the stockade. The warriors forced their way into the inner enclosure and killed most of the militia defenders,
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Beasley had claimed that he could "maintain the post against any number of Indians", but historians believe the stockade was poorly defended. At the time of the attack, the east gate was partially blocked open by drifting sand. Beasley had posted no pickets or sentries, dismissing the reports the
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After a struggle of hours, the defense collapsed entirely. An estimated 500 militiamen, settlers, slaves and Creeks loyal to the Americans died or were captured. The Red Sticks took some 250 scalps. By 5 pm, the battle was over, and the stockade and buildings sacked and in flames. While the Creek
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These natives were soon called "Red Sticks" because they had raised the "red stick of war," a favored weapon and symbolic Creek war declaration. Civil war among the Creek erupted in the summer of 1813. The Red Sticks attacked headmen associated with accommodation. In the Upper Towns, they began a
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On August 29, 1813, two enslaved African Americans tending cattle outside the Fort Mims stockade reported that "painted warriors" were in the vicinity, but mounted scouts from the fort found no signs of the war party. Major Beasley had the second slave flogged for "raising a false alarm".
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Stiggins, George. "Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga Or Creek Indian Tribe of Indians by One of the Tribe, George Stiggins (1788–1845)" Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1989.
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In August 1813, Peter McQueen and Red Eagle (Weatherford) were the Red Stick chiefs who led the attack on Fort Mims. Nearly 1,000 warriors from thirteen Creek towns of the Alabama, the Tallapoosa, and lower Abeka bands gathered at the mouth of
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The Red Sticks conducted the massacre, killing almost all the remaining mixed Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims. Afterward, they took nearly 100 enslaved African Americans as captives. The small fort consisted of a
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in July 1813 as the Creek were having their mid-day meal. While the United States forces were looting the pack trains, the warriors returned and drove off the Americans. The United States was now at war with the Creek Nation.
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A mounted scout delivered a second warning to Beasley on the morning of the assault, but he dismissed it and took no precautions, reportedly because of being drunk. Some of the reported sightings were by occupants of nearby
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led a mounted force of 6 companies, 150 white militia riflemen, and 30 Tensaw under Captain Dixon Bailey to intercept them. James Caller (Call/Cole) ambushed the Red Sticks in the
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After their victory, the Red Sticks "razed the surrounding plantations.... They slaughtered over 5,000 head of cattle, destroyed crops and houses, and murdered or stole slaves."
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spared the lives of most of the enslaved blacks, they took more than 100 of them captive. At least three women and ten children are known to have been taken captive.
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Some 36 people, nearly all men, escaped, including Bailey, who was mortally wounded. Two women and one girl also escaped. When a relief column arrived from
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mobilized their militias to move against the Upper Creek towns that had supported the Red Sticks' cause. After several battles, Major General
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in the fort. Fort Mims was located about 35 to 45 miles (50–70 km) directly north of Mobile on the eastern side of the
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within the Creek (Muskogee) nation to a war between the United States and the Red Stick warriors of the Upper Creek.
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victory was one of the greatest achieved by Native Americans. But the massacre also marked the transition from a
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commanded these state militias. Together with Cherokee allies, he defeated the Red Sticks Creek faction at the
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When reports of the Creek pack train reached Colonel Caller, he and Major Daniel Beasley of the
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A New Order of Things. Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816
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Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812–1815,
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a few weeks later, it found 247 corpses of the defenders and 100 of the Creek attackers.
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led by Dixon Bailey would have to be killed to avenge their treachery at Burnt Corn.
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with news that more than 400 Red Stick warriors planned to attack Fort Easley, then
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison
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The Red Sticks attacked during the mid-day meal, attempting to take the fort in a
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took place on August 30, 1813, at a fortified homestead site 35-40 miles north of
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Because Federal troops were largely occupied with the northern front of the
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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Thrapp, Dan L. "Weatherford, William (Lamouchattee, Red Eagle)", in
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Fort Mims, 22-Beasley's cabin, 25-Beasley's death, 26-eastern gate
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W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
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Waselkov, p. 33, said that 100 or so slaves were within the fort.
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The Red Sticks' victory at Fort Mims spread panic throughout the
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Inside the reconstructed fort, looking at the west wall and gate.
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A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814
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surrounding the house and outbuildings of settler Samuel Mims.
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Heidler, David Stephen and Heidler, Jeanne T. "Creek War," in
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List of Redstick Creek Warriors participating in the massacre
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Site about the Creek War including accounts, letters, etc.
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Trail of Tears The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
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Dodd and Mead, 1874, Chapter 3. Halbert, Ball, p. 150.
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Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: in Three Volumes
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Index

Fort Mims
Creek War

Mobile, Alabama
Bay Minette, Alabama
Red Stick
Red Sticks
Red Stick Creek
United States
William Weatherford
Peter McQueen
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Burnt Corn
Fort Mims
Bashi Skirmish
Tallushatchee
Talladega
Canoe Fight
Autossee
Holy Ground
Calebee Creek
Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek
Horseshoe Bend
Mobile, Alabama

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