28 October 1813, the volunteers reached Wells Creek where the volunteers ran out of bread. The civilian contractor system they depended on for supplies simply failed to deliver. They camped there and sent out hunting and foraging parties.

03 November 1813, The Battle of Tallaseehatchee was the first actual battle in Andrew Jackson's military career. General John Coffee commanded approximately 1,000 Tennessee volunteers. Participating were Colonel John Alcorn's 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen and Colonel Newton Cannon's 2nd Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen. Jackson ordered Coffee to attack Red Stick Warriors in the Southern Creek village of Tallusahatchee (Tallasseehatchee), destroy it and return with all of its corn and cattle. They advanced in the dark and split into two columns when they arrived at the site located near what is now Ohatchee in Calhoun County, Alabama.

Allcorn's cavalry including William Mallory, Jr encircled half the town on the right while Cannon's riflemen on the left encircled the other half.  At dawn, they took the town by surprise. Coffee set a trap by sending in two companies to lure the warriors from their shelters then having the volunteers fall back. This drew the warriors out to meet the direct fire and immediate charge from Allcorn's men as Cannon's drew in the circle. Surrounded, the desperate warriors fought furiously and 186 were killed almost immediately in what was a short, bloody battle.  Some Creek women and children were also killed, raising the toll to about 200.  Coffee's men gathered provisions, buried five (5) volunteers and tended to 41 wounded. They marched back along the Coosa with 84 women and children who were captured and later taken back to Huntsville.  Coffee's Battle Report to Jackson is preserved in The Historic New Orleans Collection museum and research center.

After the battle, many Creek Indians switched alliegance away from the traditionalist Red Sticks.

They traveled 60 miles crossing the Coosa Mountains and following along the Coosa River. Some sixty miles from Fort Deposit, they erected Fort Strother on the Coosa River opposite Charchee Creek. It was 100 yards square enclosing eight (8) hospital huts, a supply house, 25 tents and a large hog pen. In 1913, the D.A.R. erected a stone marker on the site, four (4) miles west of Ohatchee. In 1962, the Alabama Power Company's H. Neely Henry Dam was built just upstream in St. Clair County, Alabama. On 24 July 1972, the site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. (33.765145,-86.049329)

08 November 1813 Just after midnight, they began to ford the Coosa in response to news of 160 friendly Creek warriors who with their families were hemmed up thirteen (13) miles away.  By four o'clock in the morning, all of the volunteers had crossed except for a small unit left to guard Fort Strother.  William Mallory, Jr was one of 800 who rode through the wilderness with a foot soldier behind him on his horse. At sunset, Jackson's army made camp and regrouped within six (6) miles of Talladega, where friendly natives were beseiged at Fort Leslie by 1,080 Red Sticks. A fortified house, it has also been referred to as Leslie's Station, Leslie's Post, Fort Lashley, and Lashley's Fort. The site located at Fort Lashley Avenue and South Street in Talladega is identified by a marker. (33.43457; -86.10302)  A pyramidal monument, lists the officers and privates killed in the battle erected by the D.A.R. in Oak Hill Cemetery nearby where their remains were re-interred.

09 November 1813, the Battle of Talladega. Before 4 o'clock in the morning, 20,000 volunteers had silently encircled a thicket where the Red Sticks were concealed near the fortification. As in the previous battle, a small decoy force drew out the warriors at sunrise.  But the warrior's appearance and war cries caused some of the front line militia to give way and the inner circle broke. Initial corrective action faltered before reserves met the warriors' charge the militia recovered. At this point the battle became general and lasted for another 15 minutes before the Red Sticks were driven from the field eluding Colonel Allcorn's cavalry's wide circuit from the rear. From his position, William Mallory Jr likely was among those who pursued the fleeing Red Sticks into the surrounding wood and mountains. Some were caught and killed, but many disappeared taking with them the knowledge of the volunteer's tactics.

An accurate count was not possible, but it was estimated that 400 casualties were inflicted on the Red Sticks, including 290 dead. Jackson's forces suffered 100 casualties, including 15 killed in the field and two (2) who died from their wounds afterwards.  After burying their dead, the volunteers returned along the Coosa to Fort Strother with a tattered battle flag bearing the Spanish arms and the grateful Creeks they had rescued. The captured battle flag offered as proof of Spanish complicity was later sent to the "ladies of east Tennessee."  Those rescued added to the increasingly dire need for provisions.

At one point, the horses were without corn for a week and the men were without food for two (2) days, except what some had held in reserve. Many of those who had enlisted for the Natchez Expedition openly proclaimed their year's enlistment was over on 10 December 1814 and deserved honorable discharge.  Jackson's official position was that the months they were not in the field simply did not count. The three (3) month terms of militia units that enlisted in September 1813 were also expiring.  Despite Jackson's threats to personally kill deserters, his army deteriorated to only only a few more than a hundred loyal men. William Mallory, Jr's payroll records indicate he was among those who stayed at Fort Strother and endured the starvation by eating acorns along with Jackson.

12 November 1813, Jackson issued an order for the "forwarding blankets to Fort Strother to benefit the army against the hostile Creek Indians". (22)

17 November 1813, Jackson abandoned Fort Strother and marched his army twelve (12) miles toward Tennessee where they met 150 beeves and nine (9) wagons of flour. (23)

13 December 1813 Jackson received word that reinforcements and supplies were nearby and ordered 1st Brigade West Tennessee Volunteers to return home for discharge. (24)

15 January 1814, 900 fresh recruits from West Tennessee joined the remnants Jackson's army at Fort Strother.  Their term was for only 60 days, so Jackson moved them out without delay. Three (3) days later, 930 volunteers were joined by 200 friendly Creek and Cherokee warriors at the site of the previous battle in Talladega. following two advance companies of scouts and with a cannon in tow, they set out toward the Tallapoosa River.

20 January 1814, After crossing Hillabee Creek, they set up camp for the night at Enotochopco in what is now Tallapoosa County, Alabama.

21 January 1814, They saw two (2) Red Stick warriors who eluded capture and toward dusk found the trail of a large force of warriors moving toward Tohopeka.  Jackson set up camp in a square formaiton and posted extra guards as an attack appeared eminent. 

22 January 1814, The Battle of Emuckfau Creek began when the Red Sticks attacked at dawn and continued into the morning when a charge from the camp broke through the attackers and repulsed them. The volunteers and allied native troops persued the retreating Red Sticks before returning to camp and reorganizing. As Jackson evaluated the encounter counting twenty four Red Stick corpses, a second wave of warriors attacked the right flank.  This prompted an order for 200 volunteers to retalliate which was answered by less than 54 mounted riflemen. (25)  They again repulsed the Red Sticks, but four (4) were killed and Coffee was wounded.  Jackson concluded that it was prudent to return to Fort Strother.

23 January 1814, Jackson marched his army back to Enotochopco (or Enitachopco) Creek before sunset.  There the volunteers erected defensive breastworks to fortify the encampment for the night.

24 January 1814, The Battle of Enotochopco Creek, one of the flank columns of Jackson’s army was attacked from the rear as they began to cross the stream with the wounded. When the rear columns were ordered to turn and encircle the attackers, the volunteers instead retreated. The exposed center column  managed to repulse the attackers and restore order. The cannon was moved to high ground and fired grapeshot into the Red Sticks, effectively ending the engagement.  The total number of volunteers killed in both battles reached twenty (20) and the number of Red Stick corpses was 189.  The result of Jackson's twelve (12) day "excursion" was claimed as a victory by both sides.  From the natives' point of view, the invaders were sent back.

Discharge

01 February 1814,  Capt. Baskerville's Company Payroll ended.  After returning to Fort Strother, Jackson dismissed most of his army in February 1814, with new enlistments were expected to take their place. (26) "They left for home full of admiration of and enthusiasm for their general, and their return gave a new impetus to volunteering." (21)  Among those making their way back north on horseback the way they came was William Mallory, Jr.  He was about 34 years old.

March 27, 1814, Cherokee warriors swam the Tallapoosa and stole Red Stick Canoes prior to the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The victory over the Red Sticks and the subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson, ended the Creek Indian War.  Jackson, called "Sharp Knife" by the native demanded the entire Creek Nation pay for the Red Sticks' crimes. The treaty's terms ceded over 23 million acres of Creek land in present day Alabama and southern Georgia to the United States. (27)

08 January 1815, American forces under Jackson defeated British at the Battle of New Orleans after the Treaty of Ghent officially ended the War of 1812.

Prosperity in the Pennyrile

After 1812, William Mallory, Jr was an elder of New Salem Baptist Church.

11 January 1815, Allen County, Kentucky was formed from parts of Barren and Warren.

01 May 1816, William Mallory, Jr and Catharine's fifth son James Calvin Mallory was born in Kentucky.

31 August 1816, William Mallory, Jr and Catharine's third daughter S. A. Melvina Mallory was born in Kentucky.

William Mallory, Jr's sister, Mary Ann Mallory married 17 October 1816 widower Edward Price in Campbell County, Virginia.

04 March 1817, James Monroe's inauguration as the fifth President of the United States marked the beginning of eight years political harmony called the American "Era of Good Feelings".

19 October 1818, the Jackson Purchase extended Kentucky into Indian Territory between the Tennessee and Mississippi RIvers.  That same day, William Mallory, Jr enterend into an agreement to purchase 98 acres on Sinking Fork of Drakes Creek in Logan County, Kentucky from John Hyronimus and wife Charlotte. The Sinking Creek watershed appears on the USGS Auburn, Franklin, Prices Creek and Woodburn Topo maps.