The Chickamauga Towns in Alabama were found in the northeastern part of the state.  They were Turkey Town on the Coosa River, Willstown on Wills Creek, Coldwater Town near Tuscumbia and Indian Creek Village on the Pea River at Little Indian Creek (which was a Creek village under the Muscogee Indians found in the old Barbour County, which today is part of Russell and Bullock Counties), and Muscle Shoals in northwest Alabama.

You have Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River and, just south of there, you have the Creek Town of Eufaula Town.  Just below that was the Indian Creek Village, and east by south near the Chattahoochee River was the town of Broken Arrow.  North of Broken Arrow near the Chattahoochee River, built in 1813, was Fort Mitchell, Alabama.  Just across the river and 22 miles north is Columbus, Georgia.  From Fort Mitchell south about 35 miles you will come to Clayton, Alabama where War Chief Halpatter Micco (Old Billy Bowleggs born in 1795) climbed up into a tall tree when he was around 10 years old and watched four American soldiers kill a deer and return with it to the crossroads town which consisted of a store, trading post and only a few cabins.  This very young boy walked into the settlement of Clayton and told the soldiers they had killed his deer, demanding that they turn it over to him, which they did.  Halpatter Micco (Old Billy Bowleggs) then took his deer and went on his way.  When he returned to Eufaula Town the Chief of this Creek Town, Chief King Philip, who had heard of what he had done at Clayton with the soldiers, made him War Chief of the Town of Eufaula.  In time, the tribes began to fight among themselves, which went on for some time until more and more white people began to move into Alabama.  About this time a man named Owens was killed by the soldiers at Fort Mitchell and the white people in Alabama demanded the Governor take action against the soldiers at the Fort.  He sent his men to Fort Mitchell demanding that the soldiers be turned over to him for trial for killing Mr. Owens.  At this time, church people from the northeast came insisting that the Creek Indians were being mistreated by the whites and demanding that more soldiers be sent to protect the Creeks from the white people.  President Jackson sent Mr. Keys from Washington, D.C. to Alabama to look into this matter.  When he got to Fort Mitchell, he found that the Governor was pushing to try the soldiers for killing Mr. Owens and sent word to the President of this problem that seemed to keep growing all the time.  President Jackson ordered the soldiers to go out and pick up the Creeks for the killing.  War Chief Halpatter Micco refused to give them to the soldiers and chose to fight.  This set off the first Creek war in Alabama.