Horseshoe Bend Ends the Forest Wars

In the Tennessee skirmishes with the Creek Red Sticks, the settlers gathered at Fort Mims on the Alabama River where 500 settlers were killed.  Nine days later after being shot 3 times, with his arm in a sling, in pain and fever, Andrew Jackson accepted command of the 1500 settlers.  Among his new recruits - Joseph "Captain Joe" Walker.

Jackson's men were met by the Creek at Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River. Assured by their medicine man of victory, the Creeks were ambushed and defeated by troops lead by Sam Houston on March 27, 1814.  Fifty settlers died, 150 were wounded, one of them being Joel Walker, Joe's older brother.

Following victory, Jackson poured 2 cups of brandy, drank and ordered that the Creeks be allowed to leave camp freely and safely.  Thus ended for all practical purposes the Appalachian Forest Wars of generations...

Next time...Creeks and Jackson's problems continue