Crockett writes: "I know'd if I went back home I wouldn't rest for I felt it my duty to be out.

And when out, I was somehow or other always delighted to be in the thickest of the danger.

A few of us, therefore, determined to push on and join the army.

The number I do not recollect, but it was very small." When Crockett reached Fort Strother he was placed in a company of scouts under Major Russel.

Just before they reached the fort, General Jackson had set out on an expedition in a southeasterly direction, to what was called Horseshoe Bend, on the Tallapoosa River.