Note 13 — Chapter IV · The Siege of Fort Wayne
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[1]John Logan as a small child had been adopted by General Benjamin Logan of Kentucky. In 1813, Logan was killed while undertaking a most hazardous mission. “More firmness and consummate bravery has seldom appeared in the military theatre.”, wrote General Winchester in his report to Harrison.
[2]After the war, Bondie was rewarded by being appointed issuing commissary for the Fort Wayne garrison.
[3]Stickney’s account of the siege first appeared in the Fort Wayne Times, May 27, 1856.
[4]Daniel Curtis to Col. Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Library. Curtis also wrote to a friend named James Cullen C. Witherell on Oct. 4, 1812, concerning the siege. This second letter is almost a copy of the one sent to Kingsbury and is found in the Indiana Historical Society Library.
[5]IHC, IX, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 89.
[6]T. B. Helm, History of Allen County, Indiana, p. 39.
[7]IHC, IX, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 99.
[8]Ibid., p. 99.
[9]Fort Wayne Times, May 27, 1856.
[10]Curtis to Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[11]IHC, XV, Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books, ed. Bert J. Griswold, p. 371.
[12]Fort Wayne Times, May 27, 1856.
[13]Ibid.
[14]Benjamin Drake, Life of Tecumseh and of his Brother and Prophet, p. 50.
[15]IHC, IX, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 108.
[16]IHC, XV, Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books, ed. Bert J. Griswold, pp. 371-2.
[17]Curtis to Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[18]Ibid.
[19]IHC, IX, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 131.
[20]Robert McAfee, History of the Late War, p. 123.
[21]Lt. Curtis to Col. Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[22]Robert McAfee, op. cit., p. 126.
[23]Ibid., p. 127.
[24]Ibid., p. 127.
[25]Indiana as Seen by Early Travelers, ed. Harlow Lindley, p. 243.
[26]Major Brock to Sir George Prevost, Sept. 18, 1812, Michigan Historical Collections, XV, 88.
[27]Major Muir to Colonel Procter, Sept. 29, 1812, Michigan Historical Collections, XV, 93.
[28]Colonel Proctor to General Brock, Oct. 5, 1812, Michigan Historical Collections, XV, 97.
[29]IHC, XV, Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books, ed. Bert J. Griswold, p. 373.
[30]Ibid., p. 390.
[31]Wallace Brice, History of Fort Wayne, p. 134.
[32]IHC, XV, Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books, ed. Bert J. Griswold, pp. 381 and 389.
[33]IHC, IX, Harrison’s Messages and Letters, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 157.
[34]Major Jenkinson to Mrs. Jenkinson, March 14, 1814, Fort Wayne Public Library.
[35]George Washington Whistler rose to fame in the topographical service of the government. His death occurred in Russia in 1849, while he was superintending the construction of the St. Petersburg to Moscow railroad. His son, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, became one of the most famous artists.
[36]M. M. Quaife, “Detroit Biographies: John Whistler”, Burton Historical Collection Leaflet, V (1926), p. 4.
[37]Fort Wayne Times, Oct. 17, 1869, Fort Wayne Public Library.
[38]Major Whistler to General McArthur, July 1, 1814, Burton Historical Collection.
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[39]Fort Wayne Times, April 7 to April 15, 1858, Fort Wayne Public Library.
[40]Whistler to McArthur, July 1, 1814, Burton Historical Collection.
[41]Whistler to McArthur, October 17, 1815, Burton Historical Collection.
[42]Stickney to Secretary of War, April 30, 1815, Michigan Pioneer Collection, XVI, p. 87.