Convey An Officer To Barataria

 

The object of that inconsiderable expedition appears to have been to sound the disposition of the in- habitants of the Floridas and Louisiana; to procure the information necessary for more important opera-tions, and to secure pilots to conduct the expedition on our coast and.in our waters, rather than to attemptany thing of importance. 

Colonel Nichols directed captain Lockyer of the brig Sophia, to convey an officer to Barataria with a packet for Mr. Lafitte, or whoever else might be at the head of the privateers on Grande Terre. 

Barataria Preserve

General Duncan MacArthur's Raid

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Also here: Kentucky In The War of 1812 (text)

Foxes At Dubuque

Governor Clark's expedition left St. Louis about May first. At the mouth of Rock river, the Governor says, he met some disaffected Sacs and Foxes upon whom he fired; some canoes were taken, with the arms of the affrighted...[Native Americans], who sued for peace on any terms.

These Indians were Foxes and lived at Dubuque. Peace was promised them on condition they would join against the enemies of the United States and immediately commence hostilities against the Winnebagos, which they agreed to do. [Source]

Alexander A. Meek To General Gano

Alexander A. Meek To General John S. Gano 

Headquarters Upper Sandusky Jany 18th, 1813.

My worthy old friend

Genl. Harrison ordered us on here from Franklinton some time since of which I advised you. We left there on New Years day... .  Genl. Harrison & his suit left here this morning for Lower Sandusky. We march this day for the rapids of the Maumee ... .

There is now here about 2500 Men which I expect will follow us in a few days. This place & Delaware has been very sickly — three buried here yesterday.

I cannot help expressing my great pleasure at the beauties of this country, the plains of Sandusky are the most beautiful my eyes ever beheld, they are in every respect elegant.

Hints To Young Generals By Secretary Armstrong

Hints to young generals. by Secretary John Armstrong, written July 1, 1812:

Peaceful Coercison By Embargo

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December 1807 - Thomas Jefferson attempts "peaceful coercion" of the British with his embargo but it results in economic disaster for merchants.

Vice President Elbridge Gerry

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On The 21st Of October

An account of the Battle of Châteauguay: being a lecture delivered at ...,  By William Douw Lighthall:

Hawk Feather Gift From Tecumseh Descendant

McArthur And Cass

On the 14th, Hull ordered McArthur and Cass to march with a considerable force to the River Raisin, by an inland trail running back from the border, by the way which has since been known as the Ypsilanti and Tecumseh trail, striking the Raisin some distance up, at Godfroy's trading post.

1826 Map Of Michigan Territory (LOC)
Ypsilanti at the top middle of map; River Raisin at the lower right of map

This road had been taken by General Wayne when he first came to Detroit. Captain Brush had been directed, on the 14th, to go up and meet them. On the 15th, Brock unmasked his battery, and sent over a demand for a surrender, coupled with the stereotyped threat, that if resisted, he could not control the Indians.  [Source]

Attack On Fort Michilimackinac

Distant View Of Mackinac Island

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"Capt. Charles Roberts to Colonel Baynes: Fort Michilimackinac, 17th July, 1812. Sir,—On the 15th instant I received letters by Express from Major General Brock, with orders to adopt the most prudent measures either of offence or defence which circumstances might point out, and haying received intelligence from the best information that large reinforcements were daily expected to be thrown into this garrison, and finding that the Indians who had been collected would soon have abandoned me if I had not made the attempt, with the thorough conviction that my situation at St. Joseph's was totally indefensible, I determined to lose no time in making the meditated attack on this Fort."

Reconnoitering Under McArthur

On the 14th [of July] a company of militia and a rifle corps, under colonel M'cArthur, were detached to reconnoitre the country. They penetrated to M'Gregor's mills, upon the river La Tranche, or Thames, a short distance from the field of battle where the British army was captured fifteen months afterwards by general Harrison. On the 17th, they returned to camp, having collected a great quantity of provisions, and a number of blankets, besides a considerable quantity of ammunition and other military stores.

1812 Map Including The Thames River In Canada (LOC)

That part of Upper Canada traversed by the detachment is described by one of the volunteers that composed it as extremely fertile and beautiful. The fields of wheat and Indian corn were remarkably fine; but as every male capable of bearing arms had been drafted for the defence of the province, vast quantities of the wheat remained ungathered. [Source]

Memoir Of Alexander Macomb

Shortly after Macomb had entered the encampment beyond the Alleghany, an incident occurred which came near doing him a serious injury.

An officer visited him in his tent, and in the course of conversation, broached the politics of the day, the principal theme of which was the change of administration, Mr. Jefferson having been not long before elected to the Presidency. This officer was very abusive of the new President, in terms not merely indecorous, but punishable by the Articles of War. Disapproving of such intemperance, Macomb begged him not to continue a language, so disrespectful to the head of the Army and the Nation, and which, used any where but in his own tent, he would feel constrained to notice, as a breach of discipline. The expressions were overheard, attributed to Macomb, and reported to Head Quarters, for which he received a severe reprimand. He, however, soon succeeded in satisfying the General of his innocence of the charge, though without exposing the officer guilty of the indecorum.[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]

Captain John Whistler In The Van Buren Papers

Calendar of the papers of Martin Van Buren ...,  By Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, Elizabeth Howard West:

Urbana To Detroit

From Urbana to the rapids of the Miami of the Lakes, the country belongs to the Indians, and is entirely destitute of roads.

Wood Splinter From Hull's Corduroy Or Log Road Built In 1812
To Transport General Hull's army to Detroit

From the rapids to Detroit, along Lake Erie and Detroit river, are various settlements, principally of French Canadians.

An 1812 Headquarters At Urbana, Ohio

Forts or block-houses have been erected and garrisoned in most of these ceded tracts since the declaration of war, but at the time that the country was traversed by general Hull s detachment, no civilized being was to be seen between Urbana and the rapids, a distance of at least 120 miles. [Source]

Colonel Carr

The home journal., January 27, 1859, Image 2, (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?:

Col. Robert Carr of Philadelphia, was Benjamin Franklin's errand boy and a colonel in the War of 1812.  

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General Proctor And Father Richard

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A Harrowing Experience For Rachel Knaggs

An excerpt from the History of the Knaggs family:

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FindAGrave memorial for Rachel Knaggs.

Grooms Served Under Colonel Butler

[Stephen F.] Austin to Samuel M. Williams, Mexico, April 29, 1835. *Butler's machinations to injure him. Butler's unpopularity in Mexico. Does not understand Mexican politics. Nobody does; just waiting.

Joseph Ficklin to Austin, Lexington, June 2, 1836. Commending his brother-in-law, Major [Horatio] Grooms. Served in War of 1812, under Colonel Anthony Butler. Selected by Texas committee for detachment from Lexington. (Omitted.) 363 [Austin Papers] 

Horatio Grooms Mentioned Among Those Who Volunteered For Texas

*Colonel Anthony Butler, United States Minister to Mexico, 1829-1835. For Austin's relations with him, see Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, 286-287.