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Fort Mims - A Place Called ChumucklaNOTE: Many Chumuckla Family Names come from this era as either Creek Indian (mostly White Stick .. as opposed to Red Stick) and Ft. Mimms Survivors. The Steadham family traces back to Ft. Mimms survivors. There were not many. "Ellis", "Cook", "Ward" ; these are a few of the Family Names tracing back to Creek Roots.
In 1813, August 30th, the Creek Indians attacked Fort Mimms, and as it was negligently protected, nearly all the inmates, soldiers, women and children, said to number of 550, were put to death.
The news of this massacre spread rapidly in Mississippi, as nearly all the soldiers who defended the fort were from that Territory, and I might add that a majority of them were from Jefferson County. The danger was so threatening that Governor HOLMES, on his own responsibility, called for volunteers to form a battalion of mounted men to be composed of one company from each of the counties of Adams, Wilkinson, Amite, and Jefferson.
The massacre of Fort Mimms occurred on August 30, and the battalion called out by Gov. HOLMES reported for duty on the 23rd of the following month, and at once hurried to the seat of war. This was the famous Jefferson Troop designated at the War Department as dragoon, commanded by Major Thomas HINDS, which subsequently became prominent in the Indian war, and the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
The heavy drafts made upon the sparsely settled territory left it in such a defenseless condition, that, had the Creeks followed up their success at Fort Mimms and formed, as they desired, a juncture with the Choctaws, they would have swept over the country with the destruction of a tornado.
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The Creek occupied most of what are now Alabama and Georgia, and were the second most powerful grouping of Indians south of New York, after the Cherokee. At one time their number reached about 30,000.
The Creek were an agricultural tribe who's villages were situated along creeks and rivers, which accounts for their name, given to them by early traders. They were an orderly society, arranging their log houses in a rectangle around a central space reserved for public ceremonies. Some villages were designed for war ceremonies, other for peace ceremonies.
The Creek men accomplished the hunting, and the women planted and harvested crops of corn, squash, and beans. Tribal members, like other Native Americans of the southeast, were heavily tattooed and ornamented.
The Creek supported the British during the American Revolution, but signed a peace treated with the United States in 1790. However, in 1813, still under the influence of the British, the Creek declared war against the United States. They attacked Fort Mims in southern Alabama, and for several months war ensued. After a few months they were soundly defeated by General Andrew Jackson, and forced to give up more than half of their territory. Eventually, after being forced to cede more land to the Americans, they agreed to relocated in Oklahoma, where they became a member of the Five Civilized Tribes. Only a few remained behind.
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