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Creek Indian War

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033891

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Creek Indian Land Sales Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0371
Abstract

Documents pertaining to the sale of lands belonging to Ko Yoo Quae, Alpetter Hadjo, Co Choc O Nee, Coch Che Yo Ho Lo, and Pelis-hart-ke - all Creek Indians living in Alabama between 1833 and 1841.

Dates: 1833 - 1841

George Strother Gaines paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0551
Abstract

Typescript copy of Gaines's "Reminiscences of Early Times in the Mississippi Territory," which discusses the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and treaties (1810-1840).

Dates: 1908

Jesse Griffin letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Abstract

A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.

Dates: 1813 September 5

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.

Dates: 1820-1920

William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend

 Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)

Dates: 1948 - 1964