Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . orced from line to line,from place to place, those alive at last reached the riverbank. They were appalled to find their canoes gone, butplunged dauntlessly into the ford, only to be met by thecool, steady, withering fire from CofTees riflemen, liningthe banks on the farther side. Jackson was not a merciless man, as he was popularlysupposed to have been, and he did his utmost to stop thecarnage, but on that smoke-covered, blood-saturated pen-insula, in that almost impenetra
Border fights & fighters; stories of the pioneers between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi and in the Texan republic . orced from line to line,from place to place, those alive at last reached the riverbank. They were appalled to find their canoes gone, butplunged dauntlessly into the ford, only to be met by thecool, steady, withering fire from CofTees riflemen, liningthe banks on the farther side. Jackson was not a merciless man, as he was popularlysupposed to have been, and he did his utmost to stop thecarnage, but on that smoke-covered, blood-saturated pen-insula, in that almost impenetrable tangle of primevalforest, it was impossible to get hold of his men; and theIndians themselves, in their proud disdain to ask for quar-ter, in their determination to continue the fight, renderedhis efforts abortive. The battle stopped about threeoclock in the afternoon. It stopped because one sidehad been wiped out. There were no more Indians to beconquered, but in its ending was seen its most dramaticfeature. A party of desperate Indians took position in a deepravine near the river bank which had been covered by. They plunged dauntlessly into the ford, only to bemet by the fire from Coffees riflemen on the fartherside. Jacksons Victory at Tohopeka 189 heavy logs. There appeared to be only one way to getat them and that was by a rush at the entrance, which wasfully covered by the savage rifles. Jackson called forvolunteers to storm the place. No one responded to hisappeal until, with his usual impetuous headlong valor,young Sam Houston, in spite of his wound, sprang to thefront. Seizing a musket and calling upon the men to followhim he made a rush at the entrenchment. The men madea forward movement but stopped after going a few feet,and Houston, not noticing that he was unsupported, ranforward alone, raising his piece to fire as he received the entire discharge of that last desperateband of Indians. As he neared the entrance to the ravinetwo bullets struck him,
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