Josiah Howard, POW

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series), Microform: c-11823:

Josiah Howard, Private.

of Amhurst, York States, taken prisoner

28th May 1813

c.694.A.  P. 13.

Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Left Hampton Roads

Source

William Henry Winder

William Henry Winder in The British invasion of Maryland, (1812-1815):

Another Eyewitness Account

"As the enemy were throwing large numbers of cannon-balls into the fort from their batteries, Harrison offered a gill of whiskey for every one delivered to the magazine-keeper, Thomas L. Hawkins.  Over one thousand gills were thus earned by the soldiers."

"An eyewitness (Reverend A. M. Lorraine) relates that one of the militia took his station on the embankment, watched every shot, and forewarned the garrison thus: 'Shot,' or 'bomb,' as the case might be: sometimes 'Block-house No.1, ' or 'Look out, main battery,' 'Now for the meat-house,' 'Good-by, if you will pass.'  At last a shot hit him and killed him instantly." [Source]

Charles J. Ingersoll, Historian

Charles Jared Ingersoll papers

Collection 1812

© The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

"Lawyer, politician, and author Charles Jared Ingersoll was born in Philadelphia on October 3, 1782 to Jared Ingersoll, a member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and district judge, and Elizabeth Pellet."

"Over the course of his governmental career, Ingersoll worked with a few U. S. presidents such as James Monroe, John Tyler, and James K. Polk. In addition to his political career, Ingersoll worked as a lawyer in Philadelphia and was an accomplished writer. Beyond his early works, he published the two-volume History of the War of 1812-15 (1845, 1852)." [Source]

Dr. Reynolds And Captain Hanks Were Killed By An Explosion

From The Napoleon-Series Organization website, The War of 1812 Magazine Issue 18, June 2012, Later Development at Historic 1812 Military Sites near Detroit, By M.B. Walsh:


"...Dr. Reynolds, who was so pleased with the American artillery attack on the British shore on
5 July, was himself killed by a ball fired by the “British dogs” on the morning of 16 August 1812."

"The fire from the battery on the Canada shore, kept up slowly since dawn, had become very vigorous. Up to this time no casualty had resulted from it within the fort. Now a ball came bounding over the fort wall, dealing death in its passage. A group standing at the door of one of the officers’ quarters were almost annihilated. Captain Hanks, of Mackinaw, Lieutenant Sibley, and Dr. Reynolds... ." (Source)

Pension application for Margaret (McNiff) Hanks, the widow of Porter Hanks:

"...her said husband was killed by the explosion of a bomb at the Fort of Detroit, on the 16? day of August A.D. 1812...".