Captain Martin McCallum

  

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...Martin McCallum, Captain in the 1st Regt Lincoln Militia

was killed in attack of the enemy on 

Fort George on the 27th May 1813

Cross-posted at Detour Through History

William Cameron Killed At Fort George

  

Upper Canada Sundries : C-4543

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...certify that William Cameron Private in the 1st Reg't of Lincoln Militia was killed in the attack of the enemy on Fort George on the 27th May 1813...

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections And Detour Through History

American Major Chapin

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848, RG 19 E5A

Microform: t-1126

Statement...27 May 1813

At The Capture Of Fort George

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Statement Of Losses Sustained

Peter Carson, Cordwainer

Township Of Grantham

Damage sustained...by a party of militia and Indians commanded by Major Chapin of the United States Volunteers

12 October 1813

Battle Statistics

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Chief Red Jacket

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"When the War of 1812 broke out, Red Jacket, like many Seneca, became an ally of the United States. In his sixties, he fought bravely at the battles of Fort George (17 Aug. 1813) and Chippawa (5 July 1814)... ". [Source]

Lt. Col. George McFeeley

Lieutenant Colonel George McFeeley was the commanding officer at Fort Niagara, War of 1812, and issued the following report [excerpted below] to General Alexander Smyth as found in the Official letters of the military and naval officers of the United States, during the war with Great Britain in the years 1812, 13, 14, & 15 : with some additional letters and documents elucidating the history of that period .

Fort Niagara, November 25th, 1812.

Sir,

I beg leave to inform you that on the morning of the 21st instant, at 5 o'clock, a heavy connonading opened upon this garrison from all the batteries at, and in the neighbourhood of Fort George, which lasted, without intermission, until after sun-down. The garrison was not as well provided with artillery and ammunition as I could have wished; however, the batteries opened a tremendous fire upon them in return, with hot shot, admirably well directed.

An instance of extraordinary bravery in a female (the wife of one Doyle, a private of the United States' artillery, made a prisoner at Queenstown) I cannot pass over.  See related Doyle post.

Only two of the above men were killed by the enemy's shot, the rest by the bursting of a 12 pounder in the south-east block house, and by the spunges of the guns on the north block house, and at the salt battery.

GEORGE M'FEELEY

Below, date line Carlisle 24th March 1812, is McFeeley's acknowledgment of his appointment as lieutenant-colonel (from Fold3).

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Lieutenant Joseph C. Eldridge

One of the essays in "THE WAR OF 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence" told of "The Death Of Joseph C. Eldridge...," a lieutenant with the 13th U.S. Infantry, who was ambushed by Chief Blackbird and other Ottawa warriors.  The Ottawas, from Michigan, "joined the British army during the siege of Fort George," and that is the vicinity where was killed.  An investigation conducted by Colonel William Claus, of Canada's Indian Department, ensued at the request of the Fort George commander after it was  reported that Eldridge was tortured and killed in captivity.  Chief Blackbird's response to Colonel Claus is included.

See my review of the book here.

Eldridge street in New York City is named after Lt. Eldridge.

On 20 March 1812, Eldridge wrote to Secretary of War Eustis accepting his appointment as a second lieutenant:

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Capture Of Fort George Engraving

Source: Cassier's Magazine

Battle of Fort George.

Some Canadian Pensioners

From the NIAGARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY NO. 27:

PRISONERS FOR WAR LOSSES, Found in Niagara Spectator, May 23d, 1817

Supplementary list of widows and children admitted as pensioners between 18th Sept. last list, and 31st Dec. 1816... .  Also of persons disabled by wounds received in actual service or from accidents while on duty. Children of John Overholt, William Cole; widows of George Couck, Robert Wilkerson, Jonathan Hagar, Colin McCollum, John Stahl, Samuel Pew, Uriah Petit.

Disabled

James Secord, Adam Stull, George Adams, John Bryant, Lewis Clement, Frederick Thompson, Alexander Rose, Daniel Stewart, Angus McDougall, Joseph Long, Daniel McCollum, Peter Lampman, Donald Cameron, George Chase.

These were wounded at Queenston, Fort George, Chippawa, Lundy's Lane, Fort Erie, St. Davids respectively, the sums owing them ranging from $40. to $84. the Provincial Currency Dollar being five shillings.

A Canadian Company Of Blacks

Captain Runchey's Company of the First Lincoln Regiment:

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Engagements:  Queenston, 13th, Oct., 12. and Fort George, 27th May, 13.

Captain Robert Runchey, Sr.

             James Robertson

Lieutenant George Runchey

From Wikipedia:  On 3 March 1813, the unit was converted into the Corps of Provincial Artificers under the command of Lt. James Robertson, a black settler formerly of Detroit who had been a member of Butlers Rangers in the Revolutionary War as well as the Corps of Provincial Artificers before joining the Coloured Corps sometime before the Battle of Queenston Heights. While this might have appeared to be a backward step, the scarcity of the sundry skills required of Artificers meant that they were paid two to four times as much as they would have been as private soldiers.

From The Eve of War at NOTL museum:

Working under the direction of a white officer, Captain Robert Runchey Sr., thousands of volunteers fought for the British during the War of 1812. Niagara Blacks in Runchey’s unit included Pierpoint, brothers James and Humphrey Waters, John Delay, John Jackson, Robert Jupiter, John Saunders, and George Martin.

The blog, North End Journal, has a post about Runchey's men.