A line of ramparts was speedily constructed, nearly a quarter of a mile in circuit.

An express was sent to Fayetteville, where General Jackson was assembling an army, to summon him to the rescue.

With characteristic energy he rushed forward, by forced marches day and night, until his troops stood, with blistered feet, behind the newly erected ramparts.
They felt now safe from attack by the Indians.

An expedition of eight hundred volunteers, of which Crockett was one, was fitted out to recross the Tennessee River, and marching by the way of Huntsville, to attack the Indians from an unexpected quarter.

This movement involved a double crossing of the Tennessee.