Reenactors In The Cold At River Raisin

Out in the cold, reenactors at the (new) River Raisin National Battlefield Park.  It's not actually a new park, but the National Park designation is new.

War of 1812 In Song

"Same Latitude As Rome," a group of singers and songwriters from Essex County, Ontario, Canada, have songs with a War of 1812 theme, including Capture of The Cuyahoga Packet , that can be heard online.

Cherokee Bill

From the Flint Daily Journal, Friday, June 25, 1920, on Page 32:

CHEROKEE BILL BORN JUNE, 1797 OLDEST NATIVE

Grand Junction, Colo. - June 25 - Cherokee Bill, veteran of the plains and soldier in the war of 1812, has just celebrated his 123rd birthday at the county home here.  Cherokee Bill is the only name he knows.  In the early days of the country he fought with bow and arrow with the aborigines and even used that primitive weapon, he says, when he fought the British in 1812, enlisting in the Army when he was 15 years old.  He was born June 6, 1797, and was twice listed in the United States census as the oldest native in America.  The aged Indian recently made a cap for himself out of the down of cat-tails and wears this proudly when he hobbles along the streets occasionally with the aid of a cane he has owned since the Civil War.  He is getting feeble, though he still has a good appetite. 

The Associated Press story can also be seen here at Google.

War of 1812 Casualty Database

A War of 1812 casualty database:

Wordless Wednesday - Fort Meigs Monument

Veterans Buried In Monroe County, MI

One (partial) example on the list of War of 1812 veterans buried in Monroe County, Michigan, from the Monroe Library website:

James Bentley . Born Nov. 5, 1784 in England, he died Aug. 13, 1864. He married Amanda Barker, born Dec. 12, 1800, on Jan. 31, 1816. She died Apr. 18, 1889, in Monroe. They are buried in St. Paul's Cemetery in Monroetown. Mr. Bentley served as a non-commissioned officer under Gen. James Winchester and his wife was a witness to the war. As a British soldier at the ill-famed Battle of Copenhagen, Mr. Bentley deserted, as did many of his comrades, and in 1803 came to the River Raisin.

Doolittle's Tavern Plaque

Doolittle's Tavern, Headquarters of Gov. Meigs during the quartering of General Hull's army at Urbana [Ohio] in the War of 1812.

It was Benjamin Doolittle's tavern.