Meantime The War Rolled On

From The life of John Pendleton Kennedy, a resident of Maryland during the War of 1812 years:

Meantime the war rolled on. The papers were full of stirring events. We suffered no ennui. Every day had its excitements.

In the Spring, the war began to assume a new aspect. The year 1813 was one of defeats on land. This year, 1814, our armies had more success. Our soldiers were growing more confident.

A little skirmish occurred on the Eastern Shore nearly opposite to the mouth of the Patapsco. Sir Peter Parker had been ravaging that neighborhood in small forays and was at last encountered by some of our militia under Colonel Philip Reid and was killled. There was also a little affair on West River where our militia cavalry defeated a party of British.

Mr. Kennedy also wrote about the Battle of the Ice Mound.

British Prisoners From The Ice Mound

Found in a contemporary account regarding prisoners from the Battle of the Ice Mound in a Baltimore, Maryland, newspaper:

Battle of the Ice Mound (source: GenealogyBank)

Wednesday, February 22, 1815  

Paper: American and Commercial Daily Advertiser  

Excerpted below:

13th Feby 1815

I do hereby certify and make known, that on Friday, the 10th February 1815,  Mr. Joseph Stewart, of Dorchester county*, a private in the militia of Dorchester county, delivered to me the following British prisoners captured by him and a small party of citizens, residing on, and near James' Island, on board a tender to the British ship Dauntless.  *Account linked indicated that the incident happened in 1814 (I believe in error)

Matt. Phibbs, lieut. and commandant.

James Gallaway, midshipman.

SEAMEN

Thomas Nicholas, John Strachan, James Robinson, Jacob Needham, Thomas R_eyly, ____Johnson**, James Rawlin, James Smart, Thos. Martin, William Harrower, Peter Parker, and William Sauntfield.  **Isaac Johnson

ROYAL MARINES

William Bennett, Thos. Blackham, and William Keenir.

Abraham Travers, a black man, and a black woman.

Henry Haskins, D p. Marshal

for Dorchester county

Battle Of The Ice Mound

We had, in the winter of 1813-14*, a little affair on the Eastern Shore which went by the name of " The Battle of the Ice Mound." *February 7, 1815, was the date of the Battle Of The Ice Mound found on the historical marker. It is known as one of the last battles of the War of 1812.

A small schooner of ours taken by the British and manned by a few men under the command of a lieutenant and a midshipman, got frozen up in the ice near Kent Island. A number of the country militia [Colonel Jones] got out to this mound, and using it as a point of attack, protected from the enemy's fire, made a brisk assault from it upon the schooner, which was soon obliged to strike her colors.

The lieutenant and midshipman, with their party, were made prisoners, and were sent to Baltimore, where the two officers spent the winter,—quite distinguished objects in society,—and, I doubt not, much gratified at the exchange of their wintry guard on the bay for the comforts of a pleasant captivity. [All of the above from The Life of John Pendleton Kennedy]


From the Wednesday, February 22, 1815, edition of the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser (GenealogyBank.com):

Battle of the Ice Mound

This blog mentioned that Fort Bowyer was the last incident of the War of 1812.