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1836
Creek Indian War
The Saturday re-enactment is based on historical accounts of an Indian assault on the village of Roanoke in Stewart County --located on the Chattahoochee River only a few miles west of Westville. Sunday's skirmish portrays the Battle of Shephard's plantation, at which the 45th Regimen of the Georgia militia left their home in Gwinnett County, GA to defend local settlers against Indian raids.
Horses, gun fighting, hand-to-hand combat and "wounded" people all add to the life-like skirmish. The event will give spectators a first hand, hair-raising account of what an Indian attack might have looked and felt like during that period of history.
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Tension
builds as visitors await and imminent Indian attack during Westville's
recreation of the Creek War period of 1836 in Southwest Georgia.
Due
to years of broken treaties and a new federal policy requiring the Indians
to leave their native homes, Creek Indian tribes retaliated against settlers
in 1836. Re-enactors in period clothing will portray soldiers assigned
to protect local Westville citizens from Creek Indians as they attack
the village.