Note 176 — Chapter XXIV · DESCRIPTION OF FORT CLARKE AND THE ENVIRONS

General Henry Leavenworth was a native of Connecticut (1783); entering the army (1812), he passed through all the grades until brevetted a brigadier-general in 1824. He won distinction for service at Chippewa and Niagara in the War of 1812-15, and afterwards for many years served on the Western frontier, where he died in Indian Territory (1834) while leading an expedition of troops to overawe the turbulent tribesmen. See account of this expedition in P. St. G. Cooke, Scenes and Adventures in the Army, pp. 225-227.—Ed.