"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]
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