The story of the Creek war naturally follows the life of Tecumseh and indeed the one story is necessary to the complete telling of the other. It may be best told in the form of a life of Red Eagle, who commanded on one side, and whose genius for command alone made the war an affair worth writing about. CONTENTS. PREFACE. CHAPTER I. Showing, by way of Introduction, how Red Eagle happened to be a Man of Consequence in History CHAPTER II. Red Eagle's People CHAPTER III. Red Eagle's Birth and Boyhood CHAPTER IV. The Beginning of Trouble CHAPTER V. Red Eagle as an Advocate of War--The Civil War in the Creek Nation CHAPTER VI. The Battle of Burnt Corn CHAPTER VII. Red Eagle's Attempt to abandon his Party CHAPTER VIII. Claiborne and Red Eagle CHAPTER IX. Red Eagle before Fort Mims CHAPTER X. The Massacre at Fort Mims CHAPTER XI. Romantic Incidents of the Fort Mims Affair CHAPTER XII. The Dog Charge at Fort Sinquefield and Affairs on the Peninsula CHAPTER XIII. Pushmatahaw and his Warriors CHAPTER XIV. Jackson is helped into his Saddle CHAPTER XV. The March into the Enemy's Country CHAPTER XVI. The Battle of Tallushatchee CHAPTER XVII. The Battle of Talladega CHAPTER XVIII. General Cocke's Conduct and its Consequences CHAPTER XIX. The Canoe Fight CHAPTER XX. The Advance of the Georgians--The Battle of Autosse CHAPTER XXI. How Claiborne executed his Orders--The Battle of the Holy Ground--Red Eagle's Famous Leap CHAPTER XXII. How Jackson lost his Army CHAPTER XXIII. A New Plan of the Mutineers CHAPTER XXIV. Jackson's Second Battle with his own Men CHAPTER XXV. Jackson dismisses his Volunteers without a Benediction CHAPTER XXVI. How Jackson lost the rest of his Army CHAPTER XXVII. Battles of Emuckfau and Enotachopco--How the Creeks "whipped Captain Jackson" CHAPTER XXVIII. How Red Eagle "whipped Captain Floyd"--The Battle of Calebee Creek CHAPTER XXIX. Red Eagle's Strategy CHAPTER XXX. Jackson with an Army at last CHAPTER XXXI. The Great Battle of the War CHAPTER XXXII. Red Eagle's Surrender CHAPTER XXXIII. Red Eagle after the War