The log barricade was burned after the battle of Horseshoe Bend. These white post across the battlefield mark its approximate location through evidence found during archeological surveys.
The Barricade
The log breastwork that the Red Sticks had erected across the peninsula was, according to Jackson, "eighty-poles in length, from five to eight feet high & of remarkable compactness & strength . . . " It was "prepared with double rows of Port Holes well formed & skillfully arranged, [and] was of such a figure that an Army could not approach it, without being exposed to a cross fire." About 10:30 a.m., he "opened a brisk fire upon its centre; but altho the balls which passed through, killed several of the enemy, they were not dispersed, nor was any important damage done to the works." Finally, at about 12:30 p.m., Jackson ordered a frontal attack against the Creek position. Surging forward, his troops quickly overran the barricade and after a vicious hand-to-hand struggle, drove the Red Sticks down the peninsula toward Coffee's mounted infantry and Indian allies. "The event could no longer be in doubt," Jackson later wrote. "The enemy altho many of them fought to the last with the kind of bravery desperation inspires, were at last entirely routed and cut to pieces. The whole margin of the river which surrounded the peninsula was strewed with the slain."