"We were all so furious," writes Crockett, "that even the certainty of a pretty hard fight could not have restrained us." But to the intense mortification of these valiant men, not a single living being was to be found as food for bullet or tomahawk.

The huts were all deserted, and despoiled of every article of any value.

There was not a skin, or an unpicked bone, or a kernel of corn left behind.
The Indians had watched the march of the foe, and, with their wives and little ones, had retired to regions where the famishing army could not follow them..