David Crockett tells in his autobiography about the strong feelings that brought him to volunteer.
According to Crockett's book, a young local lawyer named Francis Jones made a fiery speech, then volunteered and was elected captain, and later represented the district in Congress.
[1] During the Creek War, Jones had his own company of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen.
[3] Jones was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses.
Jones died on an unknown date in Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee.