This url paints quite a story about Fort Mim's. This also shows two engraved stones the are easy to see. We will be going close to this place in Alabama soon and will get Digital pictures and send to anyone that would like them. All pictures will be clear and wroth looking at. Give this a look-see. It has a lot of back groound wirtten inside. ole Bob http://www.dixiexfiles.homestead.com/files/Fort_Mims_The_Uneasy_Dead.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/03

When I visited Ft. Mims site in the early 70's it was rather overgrown and bushy-I walked over the area quite well-didn't hear any drums or war whoops-although it was a steaming hot and humid day. The ghost thing now-there are such stories about Stones River Battlefield in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as well as many other Civil War sites-there would be ample reason for such at these huge hallowed blood repositories, if such existed---. I should tend to agree with the latter portion of the "ghost story" where it begins to question the so called "massacre", perhaps it is a "massacre in the sense that the vain and arrogant Custer and his men were "massacred"-an Indian victory. All that I have studied down through the years indicates that Weatherford lost control early on and when the men of the wilderness had their blood lust up, there was no controlling them. The Fort Commander was apparently greatly at fault. Red Eagles grave is near Little River as I recall-it was located in the edge of farm land well marked 30 plus years back. The "ghost story" indicates that when Red Eagle surrendered to Jackson that it was over-well to a great extent-but if one plys through a bit of history of South Alabama, South East Georgia, and Northwest Florida, you will discover the Creeks weren't finished with White Folks for many more years. Then there was the half breed young Creek boy named Powell-a refugee of the Creek wars-later to do his part for White perfidy-as the Seminole Osceola. A good book of fictional history-but with all the players on a grand scale-about William Weatherford is "Horseshoe Bend" by Bruce Palmer and John Clifford Giles, Simon and Schuster 1962. The numbers killed at Ft. Mims was less than that at the Battle of the Monogahela near Fort Duquesne Pennsylvania in 1755, when a variety of allied Indians, a few French and Canadians laid waster to perhaps 950-1000 British Soldiers and allies. Among those that escaped with their lives were two men scheduled for future playing on the United States history stage, George Washington and Daniel Boone. ----- Original Message ----- From: myself <bobandgwen2@comcast.net> To: <CREEK-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:48 PM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] New today 29 Jan 03 > This url paints quite a story about Fort Mim's. This also shows two > engraved stones the are easy to see. We will be going close to this place > in Alabama soon and will get Digital pictures and send to anyone that would > like them. All pictures will be clear and wroth looking at. Give this a > look-see. It has a lot of back groound wirtten inside. > > ole Bob > > > http://www.dixiexfiles.homestead.com/files/Fort_Mims_The_Uneasy_Dead.htm > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/03 > > > > ==== CREEK-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > Carol Middleton's Legacy > Among the Creeks http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/ > Heritage of the South http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmddlton/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >