"Endeavors to put the guilty to death": systems of violence in the American South
"Baptized in the blood": settler death and consecrating Native dispossession
"Thoroughly aroused to vengeance": the invasion of Creek country
"Half peace, half war": perpetual violence on the southern border
"Gallant sons of the South": native expulsion and civic militarism
"Suffering seldom equaled": sharing memories of white victimization
"Result of this great conquest": sectionalism and southern coalescence.