Aftermath
The Red Sticks' victory at Fort Mims spread panic throughout the Southeastern United States frontier, and settlers demanded governmental action and fled. In the weeks following the battle several thousand persons, about half the population of the Tensaw and Tombigbee districts, would flee their settlements for Mobile and Mobile's population of 500 struggled to accommodate them. The Red Stick victory, one of the greatest achieved by native Americans, and massacre marked the transition from a civil war within the Creek tribe (Muskogee) to a war between the United States and the Red Stick warriors of the Upper Creek.
Since Federal troops were occupied with the northern front of the War of 1812, Tennessee, Georgia, and the Mississippi Territory mobilized their militias to move against the Upper Creek towns that had supported the Red Sticks' cause. After several battles, Colonel Andrew Jackson commanded these state militias and together with Cherokee allies at the subsequent Battle of Horseshoe Bend defeated the Red Sticks Creek faction, ending the Creek War.
Today the Fort Mims site is maintained by the Alabama Historical Commission.
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