Brush Expedition

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"Thus armed and equipped, this patriotic company took up its lines of march on the morning of July 21, 1812, under the command of Captain Henry Brush, a distinguished lawyer from Chillicothe...".

Battle Of Campbell's Island

"The battle of Campbell's Island" 

July 19, 1814 (alternate date -- July 21st)

The ground where the boat landed was covered with high grass, hazel and willow bushes for a considerable distance up and down the shore. Campbell immediately placed two sentinels about sixty yards from the boats, and the men commenced getting their breakfast.

They had not been on the Island more than twenty-five or thirty minutes when the Indians commenced their attack, both sentinels were killed the first fire, and one other man on shore. Campbell ordered the cable cut and the boat to be gotten off, in doing of which two men were killed and three wounded. Finding the gale blowed directly on land, and that it was impossible to get her off, he ordered his men to defend the boat to the last extremity.

Grounded On The Rocks

Between Rock Island And Campbell's Island On The Mississippi River

The boats had just passed the head of Rock Island, when the boat commanded by Major Campbell was grounded on the rocks, and he was compelled to discharge and put off part of her loading into theother boats before he could release his boat.

After proceeding about six miles the wind increased to a hurricane. Campbell's boat being still heavily loaded he says: "I was afraid of her dashing to pieces on the rocks, and ordered her to be put to shore, which in doing from the severe gale of wind which was blowing, and the roughness of the water dashed her so hard on shore it was impossible to get her off while the storm lasted." The boat was driven on the north shore of an island lying about six miles east of Moline and which since that day has been known as Campbell's Island. It lies near the eastern shore and belongs to the state of Illinois. [Source]

Talbot Chambers Ordered To Detroit

Enclosed a copy of an order to repair to Detroit dated July 11, 1815....

Fold3 Source

See another blog post concerning Talbot Chambers here.

Portrait Of The Battle Of Champlain

Battle of Lake Champlain:

Source - Page 440 (Approximately)

Jos. Cameron Of Cornwall's War Of 1812 Claim

War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848, RG 19 E5A
Microform: t-1126 (Image 28)

No.1600

No. 5

(No. 1605?)

Jos. Cameron

Cornwall Township

Eastern District

Amount Claimed: 184, 10, 6

Amount Allowed: 117?

Inadmissible

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections blog

Keel Boats

Governor Clark, with several gentlemen who had accompanied him on the expedition, together with Captain John Sullivan and his company of militia whose term of office (sixty days) had expired, returned to St. Louis in one of the barges about the 13th of June, leaving Lieutenant Perkins in command, also leaving the two largest gunboats, one of which had been named "Governor Clark." Captain John Sullivan and Captain Yeizer were left in command of the boats.

Keel Boat Replica

These gun boats were nothing more than keel boats, strongly fortified, and supplied with six pounders and howitzers. The men being protected by a musket proof barricade.

Governor William Clark (From Portrait In St. Louis Museum)

Upon Governor Clark's return to St. Louis, he was tendered a public ovation, all of the citizen turning out and welcoming him as a hero, but subsequent information and events ruthlessly deprived him of his easily won military glory.

The last of June, Captain John Sullivan, with a company of militia and some volunteers whose term of service had expired, arrived in St. Louis with one gunboat. This left Lieutenant Perkins, with only sixty men, and the gunboat "Governor Clark," and her crew, commanded by Captain Yeizer. to guard the new fort.[Source]