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e standing. Its length was about a quarter of a mile. Early in the morning Gen. Coffee, with his brigade of horsemen, crossed the river three miles below, marched w to cross it and make their escape; but having left their canoes unguarded, Gen. Coffee had sent over, seized, and conveyed them all to the other side.--When they r Capt. Campbell, then a very young man, and a private in a company under General Coffee, said he had retired for a few minutes to cool his heated rifle in a small es into the river. In the effort to escape they would crawl out on these, when Coffee's men would pick them off, and they would drop like turtles into the water. Onned the shore, when he was immediately captured by a Cherokee and brought to Gen. Coffee. He tried to get information from him as to whether other Indians were stationed in the rear of Coffee's command. A tomahawk was raised in a threatening manner to make him communicate, when the fellow, instead of shrinking or cowering, defi