We got home pretty safely, and in a short time we had procured fresh horses, and a supply of clothing better suited for the season." The officers and soldiers ere long rendezvoused again at Fort Deposit.
Personally interested as every one was in subduing the Creeks, whose hostility menaced every hamlet with flames and the inmates of those hamlets with massacre, still the officers were so annoyed by the arrogance of General Jackson that they were exceedingly unwilling to serve again under his command.
Just as they came together, a message came from General Jackson, demanding that, on their return, they should engage to serve for six months.

He regarded enlistment merely for sixty days as absurd.

With such soldiers, he justly argued that no comprehensive campaign could be entered upon.

The officers held a meeting to decide upon this question.
In the morning, at drum-beat, they informed the soldiers of the conclusion they had formed.

Quite unanimously they decided that they would not go back on a six-months term of service, but that each soldier might do as he pleased.