Joseph E.Carson, a volunteer officer, to Fort Glass.

The two hundred soldiers added greatly to the strength of the place, and with the settlers who had taken refuge inside, rendered it reasonably secure against attack.

The refugees were under command of Captain Evan Austill, himself a planter of the neighborhood.
Shortly after the storming of Fort Sinquefield, and almost immediately after the garrison of that place had reached Fort Glass, the Indians appeared in great numbers in that neighborhood, burning houses, killing everybody who strayed even a few hundred yards outside the picket gates, and seriously threatening the fort itself.

In view of these facts Col.
Carson sent a young man of nineteen years of age named Jerry Austill, the son of Capt.

Evan Austill to General Claiborne's head-quarters, with dispatches describing the situation and asking for reinforcements.
Young Austill made the journey alone and at night, at terrible risk, as he had to pass through a country infested with savages, but on his return brought, instead of assistance, an order for Col.