Governor Willie Blount’s call for the militia brought fifty-five-year-old Robert Hays, Andrew Jackson’s brother-in-law, back into service as Muster Master and Inspector at Camp Blount, the rendezvous site named for the governor. Camp Blount stood on the Elk River with easy access to water, on the main road leading south into Creek territory, and with room for encampments, a drill ground, and hundreds of horses. As regiments and volunteers arrived, Hays recorded each man’s name, rank, date of enlistment, and other personal information into the muster rolls, making three copies of each as regulations required. Andrew Jackson arrived there on October 6 and wrote to John Coffee, whose 1,300 cavalry had moved south to Huntsville two days earlier, lamenting that he found fewer men than expected and that they were not so well equipped, but his concern proved unfounded. On October 11, 1813, two brigades of infantry totaling 2,206 men broke camp and marched toward Huntsville and the Creek Nation: the First Brigade under William Hall had 1,410 men in two regiments under Edward Bradley and William Pillow, and the Second Brigade under Isaac Roberts had 796 men in two regiments under John Wynn and Thomas McCrory. With Coffee’s 1,300 cavalry already at Huntsville, Jackson’s strength reached 3,506.