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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVF9_charge_Daviston-AL.html
Having maintained for a few minutes a very obstinate contest, muzzle to muzzle, through the port-holes, in which many of the enemy's balls were welded to the bayonets of our musquets, our troops succeeded in gaining possession of the opposite side…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVF8_while-the-long-roll-was-beating_Daviston-AL.html
I never had such emotions as while the long roll was beating...It was not fear, it was not anxiety or concern of the fate of those who were so soon to fall but it was a kind of enthusiasm that thrilled through every nerve and animate me with the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVF7_a-bloody-contest_Daviston-AL.html
Any officer or soldiers who flies before the enemy-shall suffer death.
With these harsh words, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson marched his soldiers 52 miles from the Coosa River to Horseshoe Bend and a bloody contest with the Red Sticks. His battle ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV81_futile-escape_Daviston-AL.html
I ordered [Lt. Jesse] Bean to take possession of the Island below, with forty men, to prevent the enemy's taking refuge there...as many of the enemy did attempt their escape...but not one were landed-they were sunk by [Lt.] Beans command ere they …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV40_horseshoe-bend-national-military-park_Daviston-AL.html
Horseshoe Bend National Military ParkThe park offers activities designed to commemorate the events that occurred here on March 27, 1814. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek Indian War and added nearly 23 million acres of land to the Unite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURP_needmore-1873_Alexander-City-AL.html
Freedmen moving to the new market town of Youngsville in the early 1870s occupied homes along a street they called Needmore Street. They relocated their house of worship from near the present junction of South Central Avenue and Cherokee Road to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURO_alexander-city-a-textile-community_Alexander-City-AL.html
FrontYoungsville, Alabama was incorporated in 1872. The name was changed to Alexander City in March 1873. In 1892, when cotton was king, farmers and planters in the Alexander City area were producing an estimated 18,000 bales of cotton a year. Com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURL_battle-of-emucfau_Daviston-AL.html
Jackson fortified position here during Creek Indian War (1813-1814). Although repeated attacks by the Red Sticks were repulsed, Jackson withdrew with the Indians pursuing.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQME_horseshoe-bend-battle-ground_Dadeville-AL.html
There on March 27, 1814 General Andrew Jackson commanding U. S. forces and friendly Indians, broke the power of the Creek Confederacy.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ53_battle-of-horseshoe-bend_Dadeville-AL.html
This tablet is placed byTallapoosa Countyin commemoration of theone hundredth anniversaryof theBattle Of Horseshoe Bend,fought within its limitson March 27, 1814.
There the Creek Indians, led byMenawa and other chiefs, weredefeated by the Ameri…