 Additionally, full scale legislative deadlock had set in Bluffton between those who favored full-scale war and those who didn't.Unable to organize their militia, Bailey sent a letter (it is questionable whether or not at the behest of the military council) to Menewa's forces stationed at Leary and Shellman to reinforce Onetiwa at Albany.On January 18, a beleaguered force of 600 men awoke to news of 1000 Georgian militia men marching on Albany again.