The detachment then immediately commenced its march down the River Scambia, and joined the main body at a point called Miller's Landing.

Here learning that some fugitive Indians were on the eastern side of the stream, a mounted party was sent across, swimming their horses, and several Indians were hunted down and shot.
Soon after this, the whole party, numbering nearly twelve hundred in all, commenced a toilsome march of about two or three hundred miles across the State to the Chattahoochee River, which constitutes the boundary-line between Southern Alabama and Georgia.

Their route led through pathless wilds.

No provisions, of any importance, could be found by the way.

They therefore took with them rations for twenty-eight days.