A few of them sought refuge in distant Florida.
The bodies of the slain were left unburied.

Slowly the flesh disappeared from the bones, either devoured by wild beasts or decomposed by the action of the atmosphere.

The field, as now visited, presented an appalling aspect.

Crockett writes: "We went through the old battle-ground, and it looked like a great gourd-patch.

The skulls of the Indians who were killed, still lay scattered all about.