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Head Quarters Division of the South

Nashville 8 July 1818

Sir I have just received information that a large number of the cattle taken from the hostile Indians and ordered by me to be delivered to General McIntosh, drove to the Creek Nation and then equally distributed, have been sold and bought by your son who acted during the campaign as a (unclear) to the Brigade of Indians - If this is true, and the channel through which the information has reached me is worthy of credit, it is extraordinary that Major Mitchel who was well advised of my order relative to the (unclear) of the cattle, should be the first to violate it. By the strict rules of law all property taken from the enemy belonged to the United States and ought to have been delivered to the (unclear) Master General to be sold for its benefit- General McIntosh Brigade being in the service of the United States, all property captured by his men, as well as that captured by the other Chiefs was subject to the same rule. Knowing as I did that The Creek Nation had been (unclear) during the last war of nearly all their stock, that the Upper Creeks were distribute of cattle excepting a few of them we asked who had been enabled to make partial purchases after the termination of the war, but that the (unclear) were still