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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 641 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: Bio History-- Know Your Ohio-- ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <007901beef31$c8f6b540$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History-- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 2:26 AM Subject: Bio History-- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of 1812 pt 3 ********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** The War of 1812 in Ohio --Part 3 On Sept 3, 1812, a body of Kickapoos and Winebagoes, with their families, come to Ft Harrison, which is in the command of Capt Zachary Taylor. They ask for a council and seek provisions. Taylor refuses to give in as he suspects treachery, but does give them something to eat. Sept 4th--On this night the Kickapoos and Winebagoes set fire to one of the blockhouses of Ft Harrison and begin to fire on the garrison. The Indians make charges in attempts to fire other portions of the fort, without success. The following day they retreat. Taylor held out with less than 50 men, of whom 1/3 were sick. The Indians were angry and massacred 21 persons at the Pigeon Roost settlement on White River. Sept 13th -- Col William Russell with some companies of rangers and Indian Militia relieve Ft Harrison and bring in much needed supplies. Sept 21st-- Troops raised as a result of a call for help given by Gov Shelby of Kentucky for the relief of the Indiana Territory arrive at Vincennes, beginning on this date and extending to Oct 2nd. They were formed, some 2,000 of them, under Gen Samuel Hopkins and began their march to Ft Harrison early in October. They continued across the Wabash. Hopkins tells his officers that he desires to go to the principal Kickapoo village on the waters of the Illinois River. The march is continued about 25 miles further, where an Indian trail is discovered which is followed northwardly. However, troubles arise among the troops and a retreat is made to Vincennes. Hopkins is completely disgusted with the behavior of his men. The men are discharged Oct 25th. Nov 11th -- Gen Samuel Hopkins takes foot soldiers from Vincennes to Ft Harrison following his abortive expedition. On this date, with some 1,250 men, composed of Barbour's, Miller's, and Wilcox's regiments of Kentucky militia, regulars under Zachary Taylor, and 50 rangers and spies on horseback, go up the east side of the Wabash. Provisions, stores, and forage are put in seven boats under the command of Col Barbour's battalion. They arrive on the19th at Prophet's Town. Many Indian villages are destroyed. On the 21st, the Indians fire on a reconnoitring party. On the 22nd, Col's Miller and Wilcox go out with 60 mounted men and fall into an ambush. 18 men are killed. Snow keeps the army from moving against the Indians until the 24th. By then the Indians have fled. The army returns to Vincennes, too cold and too poorly supplied. On Sept 21st,under Gen James Winchester's campaign, Col Jennings regiment is ordered down the St Mary,s and Auglaize Rivers to Defince and to establish an immediate post and to escort supplies to Gen Winchester. He goes about 30 miles and sends spies ahead to Defiance, where they found the enemy. Therefore, he halted on the Auglaize and commenced building blockhouses. Meanwhile, Col James Findlay is sent with his mounted regiment of 350 men to destroy the Ottawa towns on Blanchard's Fork of the Auglaize. Sept 22nd-- Gen Winchester begins his march down the Maumee, following generally Anthony Wayne's course. His desination is Ft Defiance. he marches only 5 or 6 miles per day. Set 25th -- Ensign Liggett with a detachment is sent ahead of the army to Ft Defiance. He has four men with him. A Frenchman with eight Indians creeps up on them and demands them to surrender. They do, but work out a plan to kill the Indians, However, the Indians killed them first. Capt Ballard finds them the next day, but retreats wen he finds a party of 200 Indians nearby. Sept 27th -- Capt Ballard and a detachment is sent ahead with Maj Woolfor [ aid to Winchester ] to bury the dead of Liggett's party. The Indians involved were an advance group of Maj Muir's party. This British force consisted of 200 regulars and 1000 Indians with four pieces of artillery. They had brought their baggage and artillery by water to Ft Defiance and were advancing on the south side of the Maumee toward Ft Wayne. They had taken a Quartermaster Sergeant of Winchester's army prisoner. The sergeant exaggerated the size of Winchester's army and Muir retreated 12 miles on the 27th to Ft. Defiance. On the 28th about 3/4 of Muir's Indians deserted and he was forcd to retreat another 20 miles down the river. Sept 28th-- The march of Winchester's army is resumed following the return of the Hickman-Riddle mission. The forward elements of Winchester's and Muir's forces meet, but there is only a short skirmish. Winchester's army then crosses to the south side of the Maumee at a ford and encamps. Spies are sent out, but find no Indians. They report, however, that the brush is so thick that it is unsafe for spies on foot to penetrate Ft Defiance. Winchester holds a council of war and decides to send out parties to look for Maj Muir. Supplies are about exhausted and an express is sent to Harrison to inform him of the condition of the army. Sept 30th -- Harrison receives news that Winchester is heading toward a large force of British and Indians. All the forces at St Mary's., about 3,000 men, are ordered to Winchester's relief. Meanwhile, Winchester moves his army down the river to within a mile of Ft Defiance and stays there for sevral days. Oct 1st-- Col William Lewis is sent from Winchester's army with 380 men to discover for sure the disposition of Maj Muir's force. The detachment crosses the Auglaize, then goes down the south side of the Maumee for 7 or 8 miles, then crosss to the north side, where signs are discoverd which show that Muir's force is completely gone. Oct 2nd -- Gen Harrison hears from Gen Wincester that the British have retreated. He orders Gen Barbee to return to St Mary's and Col Poague to cut a road from Ft Jennings to Ft Defiance. The rest of the army contiues its march in five columns, about 1000 men. Harrison arrives at Winchester's camp and finds the troops digusted and dispirited. Ft Winchester is laid out near old Ft Defiance and is built by a detachment of 250 men under the orders of Maj Joseph Robb. Harrison then returns to St Mary's with Col R M Johnson, where these troops are discharged, Oct 7th. Col Poague is ordered to return to the Ottawa Towns, about 12 miles above St.Mary's and there to erect a fort [Ft Amanda]. Gen Winchester recieves the command of the left wing of the Northwest Army from Harrison. Oct 4th -- Before Harrison left Defiance, he ordered Gen Edward Tupper to take all of his 800 mounted men down the Maumee to the Rapids and even farther if he should find it necessary to disperse the enemy. He was to return to Ft Defiance or the Ottawa Towns on Blanchard's Fork. He was supposed to leave Oct 5, but an alarm in camp occasioned by the sighting of some Indians across the river, who fired into the American camp, kept him at Ft Defiace. Oct 6th--Gen Edward Tupper sends Logan and six other Indians down the River to reconnoitre. Gen Winchester order Tupper to advance, but Tupper says he is waiting the return of his spies. When his spies come back they report seeing only about 50 Indians. Oct 7th-- Gen Tupper wants to go the rapids by way of the Ottawa Towns on Blanchard's Fork, his force is considerably hurt when about 300 mounted riflemen, whose terms had run out and who were disgusted with Tupper, leave the camp for home. Oct 8th -- Gen Winchester orders Col Slimrall to return to the Ohio settlements with his mounted regiment to recruit his horses. Orders are given to Gen Tupper to begin his expedition, but many of the men did not want to serve under Tupper. Col Allen tenders his services to Tupper in any capacity they would be received. Gen Winchester misunderstands Allen's wishes and directs him to take the command and march to the Rapids. Allen tells Winchester of the mistake and the order is withdrawn. Meanwhile, most of the men have refused to march directly to the Rapids and Gen Tupper marchs them to Auglaize, thense to the Ottawa Towns, where he tells them that reinforcements are on the way from Ohio. At this point, the troops except for about 200, refuse to continue to the Rapids. Tupper then proceeds by the most drect route to Urbana and discharges only those men who have been willing at all times obey his orders. for this Tupper is court martialed by Winchester. Meanwhile, Tupper has marched his remaining force as far as McArthur's fort on Hull's trace and the court martial is delayed. When the court is held later, Tupper is acquited. Nov, early, Gen Tupper sends a spy company under Capt Hinkston to reconnoitre the Rapids. There the Capt discovers a British Capt named Clarke and takes him prisoner. He reports that thre were 3-400 Indians and 75 British at the Rapids to gather corn. ********************************************** to be continued in part 4. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:42:30 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <007f01beef31$f8228380$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of1812 pt 4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 4:42 PM Subject: Bio History--Know Your Ohio-- Ohio in war of1812 pt 4 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** The War of 1812 in Ohio--Part 4 Nov 10th --13th, 1812. Gen Edward Tupper prepares a detachment of 650 men and goes from Ft. McArthur toward the Rapids. He has a 6-pounder, but must leave it because of bad roads. When he arrives at the Portage River, 20 miles from the Rapids, he sends forward a spy detail to look for the enemy. This detail returns that night and reports that the British and Indians are encamped in a close formation. The entire force then crosses the Portage River, prepared to attack them the next day. Nov 14th-- Gen Tupper's force has a difficult time trying to cross the river. The current is swift and many men are washed down stream with their guns. Tupper sends to Gen Winchester asking for reinforcement, then tries to lure the Indians away by a decoy move with his spies. This fails and he marches the whole army against the Indians. They are frightened and flee and then Tupper marches the army back to camp. Nov 15th -- Gen Winchester sends a detachment of 450 men under Col Lewis to reinforce Tupper. Ensign Todd is sent to Tupper asking that a place of rendezvous for the two forces on the north side of the river be decided upon, with the view of attacking the Indians while they were encamped next morning. However, when the ensign reached Tupper's camp and found it abandoned, he got the impression that Tupper had been defeated and said so to Col Lewis. At this point, Lewis' detachment returns to Winchester's camp. Nov 22nd -- Chief Logan is sent on a spying mission and is attacked along the Maumee by a group of Indians, among whom was the Pottawattamie and Winemac. In the skirmish, Logan is shot and the spies return to Winchester's camp where Logan dies on Nov 25th. Dec 22nd -- Gen Winchester's forces receives provisions and prepares to march. Dec 30th-- Gen Winchester's force commences its march to the Rapids from Ft Winchester [Defiance]. While on the march, Winchester receives another dispatch from Gen Harrison recommending that his march be abandoned and that he fall back to Ft Jenning's. Winchester, already on his march, thinks it not necessary to follow this instruction. Jan 10th,1813,--Gen Winchester's force arrives at the Rapids. A detacment of 670 men are sent ahead under Gen Payne to attack a body of Indians supposedly on Swan Creek, but they find nothing. Winchester makes his encampment on the north bank of the Maumee, above Fallen Timbers, on a handsome eminence. An Indian camp is sighted nearby and Capt Williams with 25 men is sent to look it over. A few Indians are discovered, a few shots are fired, and the Indians flee, but there are some wounded on both sides. Jan 11th -- Gen Winchester sends a message to Gen Harrison telling him that his force has reached the Rapids, but the message was delayed and did not arrive at Upper Sandusky until after Harrison had left. A large storehouse is built within the encampment at the Rapids to secure the provisions and baggage. Jan 11th-- Gen Harrison receives information of Winchester's need for reinforcements. The messenger had been delayed because of snow storms. Harrison orders troops and a drove of hogs to be sent to Winchester. Jan 13th-- Two Frenchmen arrive in Winchester's camp and tell him that the Indians had threatened to burn Malden and kill the inhabitants if they did not get help against the Americans. Other messengers arrive on the 14th and 16th with the same news. These messengers solicit help to keep the Indians from massacring the white Americans in the area of the Michigan Territory. Jan 16th -- Gen Harrison hears of Winchester's arrival at the Rapids from Gen Simon Perkins. Reinforcements are collected and rushed to the scene. These consist of 300 men under Maj Orr and go in the way of the Portage River. Provisions are also ordered. A messenger is sent to Gen Winchester asking him for his plans. Jan 17th -- After a council of officers, Gen Winchester sends 550 under Col Lewis to the River Raisin. a few hours later a second detachment was sent, 110 men, under Col Allen. Both encamped that night at Presque Isle. Winchester informs Harrison that he is planning to take Frenchtown and hold it. In the evening a message comes to Winchester that 400 Indians are at the River Raisin and that Col Matthew Elliot [British] is expected from Malden with detachment destined to attack the Rapids. Jan 18th-- Col Lewis sets out from Presque Isle, most of the marching being over the ice on Maumee Bay and along the border of Lake Erie. When the detachment took the land route from the lake, they formed into three detachments or troops. The right was commanded by Col Allen and composed of the companies of Capt's McCracken, Bledsoe, and Matson. The left was commanded by Maj Graves, and was composed of the companies of Capt's Hamilton, Williams,and Kelley. The center consisted of the companies of Capt's Hightower, Collier, and Sebree and was commanded by Maj Madison. An advanced guard, consisting of the companies of Capt's Hickman, Graves, and James, was placed under the command of Capt Bailard. When the detachment had arrived within 1/4 of a mile of the village and had discovered the enemy, they formed for attack. When the enemy refused to fight in open field, the detachment broke off on the right by companies and marched under the fire of the enemy's cannon until they arrived at the river, when small arms were fired. The line of battle then formed and an order for a general charge was given. the enemy were among houses and garden pickets on the north side of the River. Graves and Madison were ordered to dislodge them and suceeded The enemy then fled to the right and were met by Allen, who pursued them 1/2 mile into the woods. Then Graves and Madison were ordered to get possession of the woods on the left and to support Allen. The enemy constantly in retreat, and were driven for 2 miles. The action commenced at 3 P.M. and continued until dark. There were 12 killed and 55 wounded of the United States troops, Hickman, Matson, and Ballard among the latter. The enemy had been commanded by Maj Reynolds who had 100 British regulars and 400 Indians. Following the battle, message was sent to Winchester, which arrived at the Rapids on the morning of the 19th *********************************************** Continued in part 5. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:43:51 -0400 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <008501beef32$284275c0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History-- Know Your Ohio -- Ohio in War of 1812 pt 5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: kathi kelley To: Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:08 AM Subject: Bio History-- Know Your Ohio -- Ohio in War of 1812 pt 5 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** Ohio in the war of 1812--Part 5 On Jan 19, 1813, Col Lewis is determined to hold the town and await reinforcements and meanwhile, Winchester with 250 men began his march for the River Raisin. When Harrison learns of Lewis' campaign, he orders Perkins' Brigade at lower Sandusky to march to the Rapids. Jan 20th-- Gen Winchester arrived at the River Raisin and encamps on the right of the detachment. Col Wells commands the reinforcement. Winchester establishes himself on the south side of the river, 300 yards from the lines. Jan 21st-- A place for encampment of the whole of Winchester's army is found and plans are made to fortify it the next day. Meanwhile, reinforcements are on the way. Maj William Cotgreave and the artillery are on their way, but only get to Maumee Bay because of bad weather. Early the next mornng they resume their march and get as far as 15 miles from River Raisin. At the Rapids, Harrison receives a dispatch from Winchester asking for 1000 to 1200 more troops. Perkins' brigade arrives at the Rapids on the evening of the 22nd and the remaining Kentuckians under Gen Payne are ordered to join Winchester, which they do on the 22nd. The entire force thus was larger than even Winchester had deemed sufficient. Jan 22 -- This is the day of the River Raisin defeat. The Americans lost upwards of 290 killed, massacred, and missing. Only 33 escaped. The British took 547 prisioners, the Indians about 45. About 3-400 of the British force were killed or wounded. The British--Indian force had amounted to about 2,000. Jan 23rd-- Col Procter arrives at Amherstburg with the American prisioners. They are kept there until the 26th when they divided into two parties. One group leaves the 26th, the other 27th. They go across country to Ft George where they are paroled and sent home by way of Erie and Pittsburgh. General Winchester and Maj. Madison are sent to Montreal and thense to Quebec where they are confined untl the spring of 1814. Meantime, the blockhouse at the Rapids is distroyed by the retreating Americans, who flee to Portage, 18 miles away and there establish a fortified camp. Jan 31-- Dr. Samuel McKeehan of the Ohio Militia is sent with a flag to Malden to determine the situation of the wounded. He is refused and arrested by Procter, then he is sent to Montreal by way of Ft George and Kingston, Mar 2nd. On Aug 3rd --1812, William Wells sets out for Fort Dearborn from Ft Wayne, arrives there on the 12th. Aug 14th Capt Nathan Heald, the commander of Ft Dearborn, distributes stores to the Pottawattamies and Winebagoes gathered there. Black Partridge, and Indian Chief tells Mr Griffith, an interpreter, that " leaden birds had been singing in his ear,' that they [the Americans] ought to be careful on the march they were going to take. he said the Indians had been holding councils discussing the commencing of hostilities. That 5 to 6 hundred Indians were now in the neighborhood of the fort. Aug 15th -- On the morning the troops, 70 of them, with some women and children begin ther march out of Ft Dearborn. They proceed about a mile from the fort when the front guard is attacked by savages, who are posted behind a sandbank. William Wells is killed, among others, his heart taken out and eaten by the chiefs Sept 24th -- Gen Harrison is at Piqua and there receives orders to take command of the 8th Military District, which includes the Northwestern Army. The order for taking this command was dated Sept 17th, 1812. Sept 27th -- Gen Harrison sends an express to Pittsburgh, ordering artillery and supplies from thence to proceed to Georgetown on the Ohio and from thence New Lisbon and Canton to Wooster. Oct 1st -- Gen Harrison marches his troops in rain and mud, past Ft Jennings, where foot troops are halted. Oct 5th -- Gen Harrison, at St Mary's, is informed that Indians are again collecting to attack Ft Wayne. He sends a detachment of 1,500 mounted volunteers under Col Allen Trimble to Ft Wayne and then on to White Pidgeon's Town on the headwaters of St Joseph's of the Lake, about 60 miles from Ft Wayne. When Trimble arrives at Ft Wayne, 1/2 of his command refuses to go further, and he takes the part which will advance and destroys the Indian villages. Nov 15th -- Gen Harrison informs the War Department that he does not think it now safe to move to the Rapids until one million rations have been accumulated there. Dec 10th --A battalion of Pennsylvanians reaches Upper Sandusky with 21 pieces of artillery brought by Lt Hukill from Pittsburgh. Gen Harrison arrives there on the 20th and establishes it as his headquarters. Jan 18th, 1813, Gen Harrison, at Lower Sandusky, plans to move forward with some artillery under the command of Maj Cotgreave for the Rapids. Jan 29th -- Gen Harrison arrives at the Rapids, dispatches Capt Hart, the inspector general, to Winchester at Frenchtown with news of the movements in the rear and instructions to hold the position at Frenchtown. Harrison had reached the Rapids quickly as he had traveled by sled and outrun the reinforcements for Winchester's Army. Nov 25th, 1812, The Expedition against Mississiniway was led by Lt Col John B. Campbell. On this day the troops leave Franklinton. The detachment is composed fo Col Simrall's dragoons, a squadron of calvery under Maj Ball, Elliott's Company of U S Infrantry, Alexander's 12 months volunteer riflemen, and Butler's Company of Pittsburgh volunteers. All men were mounted, a total of 600. They go to Dayton, thense to Greenville. They leave this latter place on Dec 14th for the Indian towns, 80 miles distant. On the 16th they decide to attack the vllages early the next morning. They take the first village that very night with little resistance as most of the Indians are gone. On the 17th they take Silver's Heel'sTown and destroy everything. They encamp on the Mississiniway River. An attack made on the major village on the 18th. In this battle 8 men are killed and 48 wounded. They then return to Greenville. as a result of this expedition, the Delaware tribe on White River and others in the region accept peace terms and come within the American frontiers. ********************************************** Continued in part 6 -- -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #641 *******************************************