Life and times of GenSamDale, the Mississippi partisan . Despairand Consolation.—Prayer at the Grave.—Faith in God.—In-dian Troubles.—Samuel Dale volunteers.—Equipment of aGeorgia Scout.—First Battle.—Desperate Adventure in a Cane-brake.—Pursued by Wolves.—Loses all his Horses.—TurnsWagoner.—Opens a Trade with the Indians.—Emigration tothe Tombigbee.—Terrible Death of Double-head, the greatCherokee Chief. Many settlers had now moved into GreeneCounty, and the Indians had ceased to betroublesome. In November, 1791, fathercontracted for and moved to a tract of landthree miles from Carmichaers St
Life and times of GenSamDale, the Mississippi partisan . Despairand Consolation.—Prayer at the Grave.—Faith in God.—In-dian Troubles.—Samuel Dale volunteers.—Equipment of aGeorgia Scout.—First Battle.—Desperate Adventure in a Cane-brake.—Pursued by Wolves.—Loses all his Horses.—TurnsWagoner.—Opens a Trade with the Indians.—Emigration tothe Tombigbee.—Terrible Death of Double-head, the greatCherokee Chief. Many settlers had now moved into GreeneCounty, and the Indians had ceased to betroublesome. In November, 1791, fathercontracted for and moved to a tract of landthree miles from Carmichaers Station, forwhich he was to pay seven thousand poundsof tobacco. We built our cabin and madea clearing, but the blind staggers got amongour horses and killed all but one. This wasa heavy blow. The following Christmas mypoor mother died, and in one week my dearfather, broken-hearted, followed her to thegrave. He never looked up, scarcely everspoke, after her death, but took to his bed,and never rose from it again. Never be- f4yi^. PRAVKR GENERAL SAMUEL DALE. 85 fore, certainly never since, though I havebreasted many difficulties and endured manysorrows, 1ms the iron ever entered so deeplyinto my hekrt. Never have I felt so crush-ed and overpowered by the feeling of help-lessness and isolation. I was under twentyyears of age ; no foot of earth could be call-ed our own; we were burdened wdth debt;no kindred blood or opulent friends to offerus sympathy or aid ; eight brothers and sis-ters, all younger than myself, and one aninfant, looking to me for bread, and themlderness around our lonely cabin swarm-ing with enemies. In this state of mind,on the night after we had laid father by ourpoor mothers side, when my little brothersand sisters had sobbed themselves to sleep,I went to their graves and prayed. Ah!those who are cradled in luxury and sur-rounded by opulent kindred can not knowihe whole strength of the tie that binds to-gether parent and child t
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