Creeks). Accounts of the ensuing struggle differ: most accounts report that Austill was struck in the head by the chief with his gun stock. After recovering, Austill was then struck with a war club. Caesar held the boats together while both sides exchanged blows using their rifles as clubs. Austill used the war club that he was attacked with to kill one of the warriors. At one point during the struggle, Dale jumped into the warriors canoe. In addition to bludgeoning the warriors, Dale also used a bayonet during the fight. All nine Red Stick warriors who remained in the boat were killed. The four Mississippi volunteers all survived, with only Austill receiving significant wounds. After the warriors' bodies were thrown overboard, the remaining warriors on the east bank began shooting at the small canoe's occupants. Dale, Austill, Smith and Caesar reached the eight soldiers who remained on the east bank and were able to return them to the west bank unharmed. The combined group marched two more miles up the west bank, then returned to Fort Madison. Aftermath The victory was not of strategic importance in the overall Creek War. Dale became a hero to early Alabamians and was afterwards known as "The Daniel Boone of Alabama." He went on the serve in the Alabama General Assembly and as a brigadier general of the Alabama militia. He later moved to Lauderdale County, Mississippi and died in Daleville, Mississippi. Austill served as a clerk for the Mobile County Court then moved to a plantation in Clarke County where he died in 1879. Smith continued to fight in skirmishes during the Creek War then moved to Mississippi prior to his death. Sources differ concerning Caesar's life after the skirmish: Austill stated that he remained with the Creek métis Josiah Fisher until his death ten years after the fight while Henry S. Halbert wrote that he was sold to Dale before dying in Kemper County, Mississippi in 1866. Legacy The Canoe Fight was chosen as the subject for two New Deal murals. In 1938, John Kelly Fitzpatrick created a mural study for the post office at Ozark, Alabama, that was not accepted. John Augustus Walker was commissioned to paint a collection of murals for Mobile's Old City Hall in 1936 that showed Austill and Caesar during the fight. The exact site of the skirmish is unknown. The canoe fight occurred near where