Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . Lincoyer. CHAPTER VI. TMPATIENT of the delay,J_ General Jackson proceededthrough trackless forests andacross almost impenetrableswamps, determined at allhazards, to cut his way tothe enemy, and end the warby a sudden and fatal blow. 122 TALLUSHATCHEE. Though ahiiost destitute of provisions, with few men,but poorly equipped, yet he turned not aside to theright hand nor to the left to wait for reinforcementsor to seek supplies. On the 2d of November, the oldchief, Chinnaby, brought the information to Jacksonthat a considerable number of the enem
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . Lincoyer. CHAPTER VI. TMPATIENT of the delay,J_ General Jackson proceededthrough trackless forests andacross almost impenetrableswamps, determined at allhazards, to cut his way tothe enemy, and end the warby a sudden and fatal blow. 122 TALLUSHATCHEE. Though ahiiost destitute of provisions, with few men,but poorly equipped, yet he turned not aside to theright hand nor to the left to wait for reinforcementsor to seek supplies. On the 2d of November, the oldchief, Chinnaby, brought the information to Jacksonthat a considerable number of the enemy had postedthemselves at Tallushatchee, an Indian town on thesouth side of the Coosa, about thirteen miles Coffee was immediately detached, with ninehundred men, consisting of part of his brigade of ca-valry and corps of mounted riflemen, with instructionsto attack and defeat or disperse the enemy at Tallus-hatchee. Guided by a friendly Indian, Coffee crossedthe Coosa at the Fish Dams, about four miles abovethe Islands, and encamped on the southern si
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