Wauhatchie was a 19th-century chieftain of theCherokee Nation.[1] He lived alongLookout Creek in modern-dayHamilton County, Tennessee.[1] In theWar of 1812 he served in a company of Cherokees under Capt. John Brown, Col. Gideon Morgan and Maj. Gen.Andrew Jackson, fighting theCreek Indians from Jan. 17 to April 11, 1814. He was moved west in theCherokee removal of 1838.[1]
The nameWauhatchie in theCherokee language means "terrible wolf".[2]
Wauhatchie is the namesake ofWauhatchie Pike, theWauhatchie Confederate order of battle, theWauhatchie Union order of battle, theBattle of Wauhatchie, theCSX railroad yard, and the Wauhatchie Extension Railway of theAlabama Great Southern Railroad.
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