http://www.westville.org/1836creekindianwar.htm 1836 Creek Indian War Saturday, May 29, 2004 Skirmish at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. EST Sunday, May 30, 2004 Skirmish at 2:30 p.m. EST Tension builds as visitors await and imminent Indian attack during Westville's recreation of the Creek War period of 1836 in Southwest Georgia. The Saturday re-enactment is based on historical accounts of an Indian assault on the village of Roanoke in Stewart County --located on the Chattahoochee River only a few miles west of Westville. Sunday's skirmish portrays the Battle of Shephard's plantation, at which the 45th Regimen of the Georgia militia left their home in Gwinnett County, GA to defend local settlers against Indian raids. Due to years of broken treaties and a new federal policy requiring the Indians to leave their native homes, Creek Indian tribes retaliated against settlers in 1836. Re-enactors in period clothing will portray soldiers assigned to protect local Westville citizens from Creek Indians as they attack the village. Horses, gun fighting, hand-to-hand combat and "wounded" people all add to the life-like skirmish. The event will give spectators a first hand, hair-raising account of what an Indian attack might have looked and felt like during that period of history.