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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812 + +Author: James Reynolds + +Editor: G. M. Fairchild + +Release Date: September 4, 2008 [EBook #26518] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN PRISONER *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/i002.jpg" width="500" height="318" alt="A GENERAL VIEW OF QUEBEC.—By Rich. Short. After Siege of 1759" title="A GENERAL VIEW OF QUEBEC.—By Rich. Short. After Siege of 1759" /> +<span class="caption">A GENERAL VIEW OF QUEBEC.—By Rich. Short. After Siege of 1759</span> +</div><hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class='center'><h1>Journal of<br /> +An American Prisoner<br /> +At<br /> +Fort Malden and Quebec<br /> +in the<br /> +War of 1812</h1> + +<h3>Edited by</h3> + +<h2>G. M. Fairchild, jr.</h2> + +Author of<br /> + +"From My Quebec Scrap Book," "Gleanings from Quebec,"<br /> +"A Ridiculous Courting," "A Winter Carnival," etc.<br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 41px;"> +<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="41" height="100" alt="Soldier" title="Soldier" /> +</div> + +<div class='copyright'><br /><br /> +Privately Printed by<br /> +Frank Carrel, Limited, Quebec<br /> +1909<br /></div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='copyright'> +200 Copies Privately Printed.<br /> +Copy No. <span class="u">71</span><br /><br /><br /><br /> +</div> +<div class='center'>——————————</div> +<div class="hang1"><small><b>Registered</b> <i>by</i> <span class="smcap">G. M. <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Fairchidd'">Fairchild</ins>, Jr.</span>, <i>in the Office of the +Minister of Agriculture in conformity with the Law +passed by the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1906.</i></small><br /></div><div class='center'>——————————</div> + + +<div class='copyright'><br /><br /><br />—————————— +<br /> +Quebec, 1909:—The Daily Telegraph Printing Co.<br /></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + +<div class='right'><h2><span class="u">Explanatory Note</span></h2></div> + + +<p><i>The book containing this journal is an ordinary pocket +memorandum or account book measuring 6 x 4¼ inches and +covered with split calf. The journal opens the day of the +author's capture, and closes on the day he receives orders at +Quebec to prepare to leave for Boston. The author's name is +nowhere to be found in the book, and several pages at the +beginning have been cut out, evidently by the original owner. +The journal was found among the papers of the late J. Gradden, +a benevolent merchant of Quebec who rendered considerable aid +to the American prisoners of war confined there on prison +ships. The journal was no doubt presented to Mr. Gradden +by its author as a return for kindnesses. Mr. Gradden's son, +the late Chas. Gradden of Kilmarnock, gave it to Sir James +M. LeMoine, the venerable Historian of Quebec, who in turn +presented it to me with the understanding that I would edit +and print it.</i></p> + +<p><i>Although the author's name is not attached to the journal +it bears unmistakable evidence of having been written by Surgeon's +Mate James Reynolds who was deputed by Surgeon +General Edwards of Gen. Hull's army to the charge of the +sick on the two vessels that were dispatched from Maumee to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +Detroit, but which were captured at Fort Malden (Amherstburg) +by the British. Lossing, in his "Pictorial Field Book of +the war of 1812" says that the schooner conveying the sick in +charge of Reynolds escaped and reached Detroit, and that the +Dr. <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Reynold's'">Reynolds</ins> of this expedition was killed at the attack on +Detroit by a cannon ball. There is a mistake somewhere as +the author of this journal says that</i> <span class="smcap">he</span> <i>was in charge of the +<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Cugahoga'">Cuyahoga</ins> conveying the sick, and that the accompanying +schooner carried the stores, and that both vessels were captured +at Malden. Could it be that there were two Reynolds, one the +Surgeon's Mate and the other the Dr. Reynolds that Lossing +refers to as having been killed, and hence the confusion? +I am inclined to this view in the absence of convincing proof +to the contrary. The journal itself is strongly corroborative +of my contention as the weight of evidence is with the writer +whose story is everywhere the simple straightforward one of +the daily chronicler of the events that came under his observation. +It is a very human document and not without historical +value. It will take its place in the Archives of the war of +1812 on the Frontiers.</i></p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span style="margin-right: 2em;"><span class="smcap">G. M. Fairchild, Jr.</span>,</span><br /> +<i>Editor</i>.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Note.</span>—<i>On a blank page in the book I find written in +pencil in the author's handwriting, Sergt. Ord. Reed, Dougherty, +Jowlen, Madison, Printiss, Button, Noble—Emetic (The +author had evidently dosed them all).</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='right'><h2><span class="u">Historical Note</span></h2></div> + + +<p><i>Anticipating the formal declaration of war President +Madison of the United States during the winter of 1811-12 +commissioned Gov. Wm. Hull of the Territory of Michigan +as a Brigadier General to command the Ohio and Michigan +troops at Detroit, with the understanding that immediately +upon the announcement of war he was to invade all that part +of Canada contiguous to Detroit. On June 24th, 1812, Gen. +Hull with several thousand troops had arrived at Fort Findlay. +Here he received despatches from Washington to hasten his +forces to Detroit and there await further orders. When the +troops arrived at the navigable waters on the Maumee (or Miami) +Hull determined to relieve his tired men of as much +baggage as possible by dispatching it by water. Accordingly +a considerable portion of the stores and intrenching tools, +Hull's and his staff's personal baggage, and the trunk containing +Hull's instructions and the muster rolls of the army together +with other valuable papers—also three officers' wives, Lt. +Goodwin, Lieut. Dent with thirty soldiers were transferred to +the <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Cugahoga'">Cuyahoga</ins> packet and an auxiliary schooner. Both reached +Maumee Bay where Toledo now stands on the evening of +July 1st. On the morning of the 2nd of July the Cuyahoga<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +and the schooner entered the Detroit River and while sailing +past Fort Malden (Amherstburg) the British armed vessel +Hunter went alongside of the Cuyahoga, and vessel and cargo +became a prize, while the crew, troops and passengers were +declared prisoners of war. Lossing says that the auxiliary +schooner bearing the invalids, being behind the Cuyahoga, +escaped and reached Detroit next day. The author of the +journal says that this auxiliary vessel which contained only +the stores was also captured later in the day and brought in +under the guns of Fort Malden. Col. St. George, the commander +at Fort Malden, had received the news of the declaration +of war on the 30th of June, while Gen. Hull only received it +on the 2nd of July when he immediately despatched an officer +to the mouth of the Raisen to intercept the two vessels, but he +arrived too late. In the capture of these two vessels valuable +stores and yet more valuable information fell into the hands +of the British. The journal of the Surgeon's Mate begins +July 1st and some of the events that lead to the final surrender +of Detroit and the forces under Gen. Hull's command are +recorded in the journal from such observations as were possible +to a prisoner on a vessel, and from stray information. The +journey from Malden to Quebec is recounted and the subsequent +imprisonment there on a ship in the harbor until he with +others were sent to Boston for exchange.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='center'><h2>Journal of an American Prisoner</h2></div> + +<div class='right'><h3>at Fort Malden and Quebec<br /> +<span class="u">in the War of 1812</span></h3></div> + + +<p>July 1st (1812).—After a long and tedious march I +with the sick, went on board the Caryaorgo<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> packet at +Maume, a little town on the Maume River<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>. Doctor +Edwards Surgeon General of the North Wertern Army gave +me charge of the Hospital stores and sick to go by water +to Detroit. We sailed about 4 p.m. and had a gentle +breeze the afternoon. At sunset the wind died away and +we ancored for the night<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> and about 4 o'clock in the morning +the wind rose and we weighed ancor and with a fair wind +entered Lake Erie all in to good spirits to think we should +be at Detroit by 3 o'clock in the afternoon. To our surprise +just as we were about to enter Detroit River we saw +a boat that hailed us and ordered the Captain to lower +his sails<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>. Our arms were all in the hole (hold) and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +men sick. I thought it improper to make any resistance +as I had not been informed that war was declared<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> and had +not had orders from the Genl. to make any resistence. +Lt. Goodwin and 2nd Master Beatt and Mr. Dent paymaster +to the 3rd Regt. Ohio Vlts. and three ladies and +two soldiers wifes making in the whole forty-five in number +and not more than six well persons among them it must +have been imprudent in the highest degree to have attempted +to resisted a boat of eight well armed men and a Capt., and +another of 5 men who demanded us as prisoners of war +and we were nearly under the cover of the guns at Ft. +Malden, soever we gave ourselves up and was taken into +Malden and our property was all stored in the hole (hold) +and hatches nailed immediately and we were taken alongside +a prison ship. The next morning about X o'clock our +Schooner was<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> taken and all our effects even to a blanket. +The Doctor came on board to see some of the sick and I +asked him for knapsacks and blankets for the men which +were returned immediately and the cloths of the officers +and men on board.</p> + +<p>3rd.—The day past with Mallone holey (wholly) the +men sick and despond, nothing pleasing appeard.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> + +<p>4th.—We were surrounded with Savages singing and +dancing their war dances through the town<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>. O heavens +what a glory Sun for independence can any person discribe +the feeling of a free born subject to see the Savages dancing +their war dance and hooting about the town and to be +confined when we knew they were preparing (to) murder +our fellow creatures and not only the soldiers but the +helpless women and children. These horrible and dispicable +seens closed the day and Sol returned to his rest.</p> + +<p>5th.—Some gentlemen<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> from our (side) came from +Detroit with a flag of truce and brought news that our army +had arrived their safe and that the men were in tolerable +health and spirits but we could not see them without a +British being present. We sent some papers to Detroit +after having them examined (by) an officer (of) the Part +we would expect for prisoners<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>.</p> + +<p>6th.—We were provided with tolerable rations, and +nothing happened through the day.</p> + +<p>7th.—Nothing especial happened through the day, but +all the (men) were making preparations for war.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> + +<p>9th.—Know news for prisoners.</p> + +<p>X.—Nothing extra happened in the course of the day.</p> + +<p>10th.—We were moved below town. Dr. Davis attends +on our sick daily. The weather verry warm and the men +suffer much from the heat.</p> + +<p>11th.—We had a very warm day in the afternoon. +The officers and Indians were verry busy, however we +heard nothing<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a></p> + +<p>12th.—Sunday. The American troops crossed the +river into Sandwich and divested the people of their arms +and sent them to their farms.</p> + +<p>13th.—Monday. Pleasant and cool. Nothing extra +happened.</p> + +<p>14th.—Tuesday. Nothing worthy of notice.</p> + +<p>15th.—Wensday, healthy weather. People was moving +very much in town and considerable blustor.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> +<p>16th.—Thursday. Pleasant and cool. Capt. Brown<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> +came to town with a flag of truce on and (what) express +news we knew not, but could judge by the movements. +Two topsail vessels were sent out of the river and the people +were moving out of the town at night.</p> + +<p>17th.—Friday. The Indians<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> were flocking into town +all the morning armed and painted black. A lousifer with +their arms and the town was in an uproar. It appeared by +ten o'clock that almost every person had left the town. +About five o'clock the Savages began to return into town +hollowing and barekin and firing all around our vessell, +and to crown the whole they had one of our men's scalp +stretched on a pole as they past by us to aggrevate us in +a helpless state and wound the feelings of prisoners. These +Indians<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> were headed by a british subject. Is it possible +that their can be so much corruption in the British Government. +They are void of feelings and in fact are as bad as +the savages themselves for they carry on their intrigues +under the pretence that they cannot govern the Indians,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +and in fact they themselves are personally at their head +and give them their instructions. God deliver me from +monarch's gag laws and all their subjects<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> for free I was +born and free I'll die or by the sword shall we live like bruts +and worse, glory in each other's fall and more than that +confine our fellow creatures and tantalize them by the +blood of our fellow mortals. What will man do when left +to himself. But thanks be to God this (is) about the last +act of bravery you can show you are on your last legs. +The crown will loose another jewil and savage yell dispersed +and harmony fill the land. The eagle here shall build her +nest and every subject shall be at peice<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a>.</p> + +<p>18th.—Pleasant. All things peceable through (the) +day. About X o'clock in the evening their was an alarm<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> +and the prisoners, sick and well, were all ordered in to the +hole (hold) together and what a disagreeable (night) it was +to have forty men half sick all stowed together and some +had to stand all night.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> +<p>19th.—Sunday. Warm and muggy weather. Their +was considerable movement, the Indians again past armed +and about 2 p.m. we heard firing towards Sandwich<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a>. The +Savages returned about dark in not so good spirits as usual +and this led us to suppose their success had not been so +good as they could wish. About 8 in the evening their +came a party (of) Savages by and fired several times near +us and struck up their war hoop.</p> + +<p>20th.—Monday. To day the Indians past by armed +as usual, they returned about sunset some verry much +fatigued. We were informed that the Indians and some +of the militia had a Scirmish with some of our troops +yesterday.</p> + +<p>21st.—Tuesday. Cloudy and rain. Nothing extra +occurred.</p> + +<p>22nd.—Wednesday. Everything still. Nothing extra +occurred.</p> + +<p>23rd.—Thursday. Cold for the season and some rain.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> +<p>24th.—Friday<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a>. Cold and pleasant for the season. +I was ordered to the King's Stores in order to give information +about the hospital stores. Everything peciable.</p> + +<p>25th.—Saterday. Pleasant. Nothing worth mentioning +through the day. The Indians went out as usual and +returned in the evening and are now partickular morn (ful).</p> + +<p>26th.—Sunday. Nothing extraordinary.</p> + +<p>27th.—Monday. We had three prisoners brought on +board our vessel one of which was from our army. We +rec'd him with joy, and he thought the army would be down +in a week.</p> + +<p>28th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. Nothing happened extra +through the day. All past peceable.</p> + +<p>29th.—Wensday. The Indians killed a man and his +servants and took a boat loaded with goods and two bbls +whiskey, got drunk and raised the divil all knight.</p> + +<p>30th.—Thursday. Pleasant. Nothing extra.</p> + + +<p>31st.—Friday. Cloudy and rainy. The officers<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +ordered on board the Lady Provost to go to Niagary. +Nothing further happened through the day.</p> + +<p>August 1st.—Saterday. Pleasant. Nothing worth +recording.</p> + +<p>2nd.—Sunday. Cloudy. Nothing extra, the Indians +commence (to cross to) Brownstown with Britishs and +officers.</p> + +<p>3rd.—Monday<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a>. Pleasant. The soldiers and Indians +crossed to Brown's town twelves boats loaded. I should +judge about 400 in numbers. I cannot tell their business.</p> + +<p>4th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. The troops and Indians +crossed the river as yestirday and returned about eight +o'clock in the evening.</p> + +<p>5th.—Wensday<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a>. Plesent. The Indians crossed the +river about 11 o'clock and the people appeared very much +allarmed. A party of them returned about sunset but the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +boats had few in them. Their was six guns fired about +11 o'clock at Browns Town.</p> + +<p>6th.—Thursday. Pleasant. Nothing in particular.</p> + +<p>7th.—Friday. Pleasant. Capt. Olds and Ensign Elison +came on board and informed us that two hundred militia +ran from forty Indians and several of our men was taken. +God save the ignorant for they cannot take care of themselves.</p> + +<p>8th.—Saterday. Pleasant. The Schooner or brig R1° +from Fort Erie with about fifty or sixty<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a>. Nothing further +worth recording.</p> + +<p>No news from the army.</p> + +<p>9th.—Sunday<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a>. The little brig. Hunter ret'd this +morning from Fort Erie. The people seemed to be in +considerable motion about tewlve o'clock and we heard +about sunset that their was an engagement on the other +side of the river. Considerable motion in the evening.</p> + +<p>10th.—Monday. Rainy in the morning. We herd in +the morning that they had a hard battle at Browns Town<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +and the Americans mentained their ground. Several killed +and wounded on both sides. We were likewise informed +that they intended to have another battle this day<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a>.</p> + +<p>11th.—Continued showers of rain. About 5 o'clock we +herd a continual firing near Browns Town which continued +about one hour and a half and from the nois the American +army drove the Indians and British<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a>. The Schooner +Chipoway came from Lk. Erie with one company of red +coats.</p> + +<p>12th.—Monday. No rain. A little cloudy. The British +moved their army—moved from B (Browns) Town and it +appeared that the Indians had all come to this town and +left Browns Town.</p> + +<p>13th.—Thursday<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a>. Pleasant. The people had all left +the town. Not much moving until evening. The Indians +began their war dance and commenced firing about daily +daun and a bot (boat) entered the river about fifty in number +and the D. dis't. C. A. ball that evening herd both by the +Indians and white people.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p><p>14th.—Friday<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a>. Pleasant. After (noon) made the +detail for the 13th. Their was five boats came up loaded +with soldiers, and five more this morning loaded with from +12 to 20 men in each making in the whole about 170 men. +Another boat arrived about eleven o'clock—20 men in it, +and the new soldiers all appeared to leave the town about +sunset.</p> + +<p>15th.—Saterday. Foggy. The drums beat to arms +about sunrise and the troops were all in motion or at least +all that were left. The citizens all entered boats for Detroit, +as I am told. The Indians went by in boats. By land +about 300. About sunset the Cannon began to roar at +Sandwich<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a>.</p> + +<p>16th.—Sunday. Pleasant weather but unpleasant news +we herd about noon that Hull had given up Detroit and the +whole Territory Mitchigan. The Indians began to return +about sunset well mounted and some with horses and chais. +Who can express the feelings of a person who knows that +Hull had men enough to have this place three times and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +gave up his post. Shame to him, shame to his country, +shame to the world. When Hull first came to Detroit the +4th U. S. Regt. would have taken Malden and he with his +great generalship has lost about 200 men and his Territory<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a>.</p> + +<p>Can he be forgiven when he had command of an army +of about 2500 men besides the Regulars and Militia of his +Territory and given up to about 400 regular troops and +Militia and about 700 Indians.</p> + +<p>17th.—Monday. Clouday. The news of yesterday +was confirmed. The Indians were riding our horses and +hollowing and shouting the whole day.</p> + +<p>18th.—The Provo Marshal<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> came on board and wanted +a list of the Regular Troops, and told us that the Regular +Troops<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> were prisoners of war and the militia had liberty +to go home. We were taken from the Schooner Thames +and put into a little Schooner but every attention paid us +that was possible. In the evening we were ordered on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +board the Elinor. Their was a detachment of prisoners +joined us.</p> + +<p>19th.—Wensday. Pleasant. I got provisions and medicines +on board. The other vessels came from Detroit. +Nothing extraordinary through the day.</p> + +<p>20th.—Thursday. Rainy. Unpleasant on board. The +militia left the river.</p> + +<p>21st.—Friday. We drifted out of the river into the +Lake. Capt. Brown and Ensign Phillips came on board.</p> + +<p>22nd.—Saterday. Clouday but no rain. We sailed to +the Three Sisters and lay to for the Sharlott<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a>, and about +12 o'clock we came to ancor.</p> + +<p>23rd.—Sunday. Pleasant and warm. No wind. Several +sick on bord but none dangerous. The wounded are in a +good way. About sunset the wind rose and we weighed +ancor.</p> + +<p>24th.—Monday. Pleasant. Fair wind. We made good +headway. Nothing extra.</p> + +<p>25th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. Good wind.</p> + +<p>26th.—Wensday. Pleasant. We arrived at Fort Niagary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span><a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> +and was put on shore where we found wagons ready +for the transportation of our baggage and about 12 o'clock +we proceeded on our way to Chippawa where we stayed +the night.</p> + +<p>27th.—Thursday. Pleasant. We proceeded on our +march from Chippawa to Fort George<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a>. We pased through +Queenstown and opposite to the town was two or three +hundred American Troops was stationed. We past by +Niagary Falls. We arrived at Fort George about 5 o'clock +p.m. and stayed in the river all night and we are very much +crowded.</p> + +<p>28th.—Friday. Pleasant. We had a fair wind for +King's Town (Kingston) which was our next place of +destination. We weighed ancor about 2 o'clock and had +pleasant sail through the day and night.</p> + +<p>29th.—Saterday.—Pleasant. We hove in sight of +King's Town (Kingston) about 7 o'clock a.m. Cast ancor +about 9 o'clock and was landed on an Island near Kingston. +About 5 p.m. I was ordered to take charge of the sick and +wounded.</p> + +<p>30th.—Sunday. Pleasant but cool for the season. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +sick were visited by the Doctor about eleven o'clock. Three +of the sick were taken to Kingston hospital, the other 40 +sick and wounded were left in my charge.</p> + +<p>31st.—Monday. Pleasant. A detachment of 400 men +arrived here from Montreal for Detroit. 2 men deserted +last evening. The sick are better. The officers treat us +very kindly and we are well provided for for people in our +situation.</p> + +<p>Sept. 1st.—Tuesday. Pleasant. We left Kingston<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> +about 4 o'clock p.m. for Montreal. We went 18 miles in +the evening.</p> + +<p>2nd.—Wensday. Pleasant. We started nearly with +the sun and past the Thousand Islands and our first stop +Elizabeth Town on the St. Lawrence opposite. After +staying about half an hour we proceeded down the river. +Very good wind and past several handsome towns on each +side of the river. The Sun above an hour high we past +about five hundred of our troops stationed on the bank of +the river at Sagrota and stopped at Johns Town.</p> + +<p>3rd.—Thursday. Pleasant. We started nearly with +the sun and stopped about 9 o'clock about half an hour. +Proceeded to Cornwall where we stayed through the knight.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +We past several fine towns on both sides of the river. +Hamleton is a fine town on the American side.</p> + +<p>4th.—Friday. Clouday and cold—east wind. We +stayed at Cornwall<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> all this day as we had a head wind. +The men remained in the gaol yard and fought several +times and in fact played hell all day.</p> + +<p>5th.—Saturday. Pleasant, head wind, however we +proceeded on our journey and have about thirty sick. We +stayed at Point Burdet.</p> + +<p>6th.—Sunday. Pleasant. We started about 6 o'clcok +and stopped at Lachein and the well men were marched to +Montreal by land. The sick went in boats by water where +we arrived about 7 in the evening and was marched to the +Garrison<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a>.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p><p>7th.—Monday. Pleasant. We stayed at the Garrison +through the day and four of the sick sent to the King's +Hospital which reduced my number to about 30.</p> + +<p>8th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. We left Montreal<a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> about +10 A.M. and descended the St. Lawrence. We had a +pleasant prospect on both sides of the river handsome +meadows and fine farms and several handsome towns. We +stopped at Sorril (Sorel) and were marched from the boats +to a room where we were all put into a room together and +locked up and not a man allowed to get a drink of water +nor allowed to leave the room on any occasion. The men +were obliged to comply with natures requests in the room +where we all lay, and we suffered verry much all knight.</p> + +<p>9th.—Pleasant. The British officers that came with +us when informed of our treatment was very much offended +and told the officers of the 100th. regiment. We started +about 9 o'clock A.M. with a fair wind and arrived late at +St. Francis and stopped at Three Rivers about two hours +and then went about two miles down the river and camped +for the knight.</p> + +<p>10th.—Thursday. Pleasant. Head winds we started +the sun about one hour high. and spent the day pretty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +much in parading the boats. We stopped at the Three +Sisters for the night.</p> + +<p>11th.—Friday<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a>. Pleasant. We stayed for the tide to +come in. Started about ten o'clock and descended the river +rapidly with the tide and arrlved at Quebec about sunset +and was put on bord one of the transports for the night.</p> + +<p>12th.—Saturday. Cloudy and rainy in the afternoon. +All in confusion, the prisoners very troublesome, however +I hope this is not for life.</p> + +<p>13th.—Sunday. Clouday. The proceedings verry much +as yesterday, our officers in town and do not visit us, the +reason why I know not why. We are guarded this day. +Parroled prisoners from the States. Nothing extra.</p> + +<p>14th.—Monday. Clouday. Our rations were bread<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +that would crawl with worms, in fact our fare is hard and +unwholesome, half the men sick with the diarrie. No news +of any better times.</p> + +<p>15th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. I gave five men emetic +and 3 carthartic. Our provisions better than yesterday. +No news, the men are something better.</p> + +<p>16th.—Wensday. Pleasant. Our sick were taken from +our vessel. We had several good things for our vituals, +rice, oatmeal and this plenty. This is called banyan day. +The surgeon came on board our vessel and ordered men and +me on bord the brig 160 transport.</p> + +<p>17th.—Thursday. Pleasant. I proceeded to give the +men medicine and gave them gruel and they appeared verry +much better at night. We had twelve women on board +and some worse than the devil—they quarreled like cats +and dogs and in fact I had to make use of rash (harsh) +means in order for to live.</p> + +<p>18th.—Friday. Pleasant. The men generally better +with one or two exceptions. The women in better nature +than yesterday. Nothing extra happened through the day.</p> + +<p>19th.—Saterday. Pleasant, nothing particular through +the day.</p> + +<p>20th.—Sunday. Cold and windy. The men not so +well.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> + +<p>21st.—Monday. Pleasant. The men no better and no +Doct. to see them and no medicine, no phisition attended us, +the time dubious and the men down hearted—not verry +good accommodation.</p> + +<p>22nd.—Tuesday. Clouday and some rain in the morning. +Many of the men verry low, but verry little refreshment +for the sick. Thirteen more sick came on board +which augmented the sick to 54.</p> + +<p>23rd.—Wensday. Pleasant. The men that came on +board yesterday are better after being phisiced. Nothing +new.</p> + +<p>24th.—Thursday. Clouday. The men generally better +17 men were sent from our ship to those where the main +Regt. lay. Nothing further worth attention.</p> + +<p>25th.—Friday. Pleasant. Two sick men sent on board +our ship which made our number 40. James Duffer died +at 4 o'clock p.m. with Hectic fever. Many of the men are +very low. Bellew and Collins were sent to our ship which +augments our number to 42 men.</p> + +<p>26th.—Saterday. Clouday. McDuff<a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> was buried at +ten o'clock. Sergt. Traig and Corp. Wentworth, McIntosh +went on shore to attend the funeril. He was decently<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +intered. The English people here are decent, friendlay and +humane</p> + +<p>27th.—Sunday. Pleasant. The men are something +better. Nothing happened through the day.</p> + +<p>28th.—Monday.<a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> Pleasant but cold for the season. +The men better, the women cross etc. The Surgeon came +on bord.</p> + +<p>29th.—-Tuesday. Nothing worth recording.</p> + +<p>30th.—Wensday. Pleasant. The Doct. came on bord. +Nothing other worth recording. Good weather but cold +for the season.</p> + +<p>Oct. 1st.—Thursday. Pleasant. Sergt. Maj. Huggins +and two men all sick came on bord our vessel and I sent +(away) three well men in their room (place). The three +men that came on bord were verry sick.</p> + +<p>2nd.—Friday. Clouday. The men something better. +The Surgeon did not call to see us.</p> + +<p>3rd.—Saturday. Clouday and rainy. Corp. Perries<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +child died this morning about day brake and was buried +(at) 4 o'clock p.m. Mrs. Andrews has been in travail ever +since early this morning.</p> + +<p>4th.—Sunday. Rainy. Mrs. Andrews was delivered +of a fine boy after 24 hours labor. The men not much +better.</p> + +<p>5th.—Monday. Clouday. I visited all the prison ships +in the harbor and took 4 men on bord our vessel. The sick +verry low</p> + +<p>6th.—Tuesday. Cold. Sergt. Stoner's child died this +morning. The men verry low, many of them. For the +first time I had to lay violent hands on Mrs. Critchet and +the first time I ever saw her made to hold her tongue. +Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that +ever were borned.</p> + +<p>7th.—Wensday. Could and squalws of snow. The +guard came to bury Sergt. Stoner's child. I visited all the +prison ships in the Harbor and gave medicine to the sick. +We had some sugar, rice, and barley sent for the sick and +some other refreshments was sent on bord.</p> + +<p>8th.—Thursday. Cold and rain. They brought 7 men +sick from 4 to 6 (o'clock) and we returned five. About +nothing further.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> + +<p>9th.—Friday. Cold for the season. Corp. Berries child +died about three o'clock this morning. The men are something +better. I visited all the prison ships in the harbor. +Corp. Perries child was buried this afternoon. Three men +came from No. 85—three returned to No. 85 and three +to 406. (Transports and prison ships).</p> + +<p>10th.—Saterday. Clouday. Three men that was sent +to No. 406 came on bord this morning and we returned +them immediately. We drawed fresh bread for the first +time. Nothing further.</p> + +<p>11th.—Sunday. Clouday and cold. I visited all the +prison ships in the harbor. The women were all ordered +from our ship, accordingly they all went, but four who had +sick children and one lately layed in (confined). We had +snow this evening and rain. We had a fresh surply of stores.</p> + +<p>12th.—Monday. Clouday and cold. The sail covered +with snow. Joseph Quil's child died at 12 o'clock this +morning and Saml. Lewis died at half past 12 o'clock. The +Surgeon came on bord at 9 o'clock. The men something +better. I took from Morgan his scrotum and left the +testicles entirely naked.</p> + +<p>13th.—Violent storm of snow but not cold. The people +on bord better except Ingalls and McMaster. We had 3 +men from 406 and returned two.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + +<p>14th.—Wensday. The storm continues. Wires child +died at — o'clock. Four men received and 6 discharged. +Ingals child died at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The times +are serious and the lessons striking.</p> + +<p>15th.—Thursday. Clouday and warm. John McMaster +died at half past three o'clock this morning. Henry Pluck +died at half past 10 o'clock this evening.</p> + +<p>16th.—Friday. Cold and clouday. A Surgeon came +on bord. A Mister (minister) of the Church of England +came on board and baptised Ingalls.</p> + +<p>17th.—Saterday. Clouday. We have five sick men +from No. 406. Discharged two, one from 35, and one sent +to 35. Two women sent to 71. Pluck buried this forenoon.</p> + +<p>18th.—Sunday. Clouday. I received hospital bedding +and cloths (clothes) the men in genl. better except +Ingals.</p> + +<p>19th.—Monday. Pleasant. Amos Ingals died at 5 +o'clock this morning. 6 men came from 406 and 4 returned. +The men verry sick many of them, 44 in our number of +sick. I had a reprimand from one of the B. (British) Os. +(Officers).</p> + +<p>20th.—Tuesday. Pleasant. Ingals buried. I gave<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +the men some cloths (clothes) and they appear better +generally.</p> + +<p>21st.—Wensday. Pleasant. Nothing particular happened +through the day. The Surgeon did not visit us.</p> + +<p>22nd.—Thursday. Pleasant and cold. Dennis Hagerman +died at 2 o'clock this morning. The Surgeon came on +bord at 10 o'clock. We rec'd five sick men—none discharged.</p> + +<p>23rd.—Friday. Clouday. We this day herd that we +were destined for Boston—the men very much revived.</p> + +<p>24th.—Saturday. Clouday. The Surgeon came on +bord, and Capt. Baker of our service gave me an order to +make a minute of what would be necessary for the sick on +our passage to Boston.</p> + +<p>25th.—Sunday. Clouday. I and the sick were ordered +on bord the 406. The men paid——<i><ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Herve'">Here</ins> the diary +abruptly ends.</i></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><i>The "Quebec Mercury" of 29th Oct. 1812 contains the following:</i></p> + +<p><i>"The prisoners taken at Detroit and brought down to Quebec are on the point +of embarking for Boston for the purpose of being exchanged. Five cannon are now +lying in the Chateau Court taken at Detroit."</i></p></div> + + + +<div class="footnotes"><div class='center'><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>Cuyahoga. Cayahogo according to Kingsford.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> <i>Maumee or Miami River of the Lakes to distinguish it from two others of +the same name.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> <i>Maumee Bay where Toledo now stands.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> <i>Lossing says that Reynolds and his party of sick sailed from the Maumee +in an accompanying sloop and that the latter reached Detroit in safety. This is evidently +a mistake. The sloop, or as Reynolds calls it schooner was also captured and it was +this schooner that contained the stores.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> <i>News of the declaration of war had been received by Col. St. George in command +at Fort Malden as early as June 30th, 1812.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> <i>This schooner contained Gen. Hull's despatch box and a great quantity of +stores for his army. The despatches put the English in possession of valuable information +as to Hull's forces, etc.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> <i>Amherstburg near which stood Fort Malden.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> <i>On the morning of the 6th Col. Cass was sent to Malden with a flag of truce +to demand the baggage and prisoners taken from the schooner. The demand was unheeded +and he returned to camp with Capt. Burbanks of the British Army.</i> <span class="smcap">M'Afee.</span></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> <i>Mr. Reynolds wrote by this means and this may have led to the belief that +he and his party of invalid soldiers had reached Detroit in safety on the schooner.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> <i>On the 12th Hull crossed his army to Sandwich of which he took possession. +The few British troops stationed here retired to Fort Malden. Col. Miller of the American +army in a letter to his wife says: "As we were crossing the river we saw two +British officers ride up very fast opposite where we intended landing, but they went +back faster than they came. They were Col. St. George, commanding officer at Malden, +and one of his Captains."</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> <i>Probably sent by Gen. Hull to announce to Col. St. George of his (Gen. Hull's) +intention to attack Fort Malden and to advise the removal from the town of the non-<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'combattants'">combatants</ins>.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> <i>There were frequent and small engagements between the American outposts +and the Indians on the British side. Scalping the dead was practised by both Indian +and the frontiers men on both sides.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> <i>The Indians were almost invariably commanded or led by their own chiefs, +but oft'times under the direction of an English officer.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> <i>On the 16th Col. Cass of the American Army with a force of about 280 men +pushed forward to the Ta-ron-tee or Riviere aux Canards about four miles above Malden +and engaged the British outpost guarding the bridge across the river. The British and +Indians fled and were pursued by the Americans. Night put an end to the engagement +and the Americans returned to the bridge. Hull however retired the force to Sandwich +as he said the position was untenable with so small a force.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> <i>The author somewhat mixes himself in his rhapsody.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> <i>On the 18th Capt. Snelling of the American Army and a small detachment +left Sandwich on a reconnoitring expedition towards Malden.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> <i>On the 18th July Gen. Hull issued an order for a general movement on +Fort Malden. Col. McArthur with a detachment of his regiment joined Capt. Snelling +on the 19th at Petite Cote about a mile above the Aux Canards Bridge. A general +skirmish ensued with the Indians under command of Tecumseh and McArthur was +compelled to fall back. He sent for reinforcements and Col. Cass hastened to his aid +with a six pounder, but after another short engagement with the Indians and the English +supports that had been hastened to their assistance the American forces returned to +Sandwich.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> <i>For some reason or other Reynolds makes no mention here of the engagement +of the 24th, when Major Denny and a considerable force of Americans were engaged +with some Indians and retreated in considerable confusion <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'pusrued'">pursued</ins> by the Indians. +Denny lost six killed and two wounded. This was the first blood shed in the war.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> <i>The captive American officers are probably meant.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> <i>Col. Proctor who now commanded at Amherstburg or Malden detached the +Indians under Tecumseh across the Detroit River to intercept a convoy that Major +VanHorne and a force of Americans had been sent to safely conduct within the American +lines.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> <i>On this day the Indians under Tecumseh badly defeated Major VanHorne's +force of Americans near Brownstown and the latter retreated in great disorder. The +mail fell into the hands of the British and revealed the mutinous spirit in Hull's army. +In this engagement seventeen of the Americans were killed and eight wounded.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a> <i>Reinforcements of the 41st Regt. under Lt. Bullock.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> <i>The battle of Maguaga where Col. Miller in command of a force of Americans +defeated the British and Indians and drove them to their boats whence they returned to +Malden. The advantages of this victory were not followed up for the relief of Brush +on his way to Detroit with a convoy of supplies for Hull's army.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> <i>Skirmishing occurred for several days after the main engagement of the 10th.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> <i>Major Muir and his subaltern Sutherland of the British forces were both +wounded. The losses and casualties on the American side were very heavy.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> <i>Gen. Brock joined Col. Proctor at Malden (Amherstburg) on the night of +the 13th with three hundred militia and a few regulars.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> <i>Gen. Brock marched that day with the forces under his command and took +possession of Sandwich which had been abandoned by the Americans.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> <i>About 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th, a general cannonading began +between the British at Sandwich and the Americans at Detroit. Considerable damage +was done by the British artillery and several American officers were killed. Two guns +on the British side were silenced by the American artillerists.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> <i>During the night the British forces crossed to the Detroit side of the river +and prepared for an assault on the town. The guns at Sandwich opening a heavy +cannonading and their range was so accurate that many Americans were slain. Dr. +Reynolds who it is supposed accompanied Hull's invalids from the Maumee to Detroit +was instantly killed. Gen. Hull early decided to capitulate.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> <i>By the terms of the surrender the American Militia were paroled and +<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'allowen'">allowed</ins> to return to their homes, but the regulars were declared to be prisoners of war +and were sent on board the prison ships.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> <i>Mostly the 4th Regt. of Regulars.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> <i>The Queen Charlotte and Hunter were also detailed to convey some of the +prisoners of war including Gen. Hull and other officers, to Fort Erie opposite Buffalo.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> <i>The writer evidently means Fort Erie at the entrance to the Niagara River.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> <i>Fort George directly opposite Fort Niagara which was on American +territory and garrisoned by American troops.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> <i>The British escort from Kingston was commanded by Major Heathcote of +the Nova Scotia Regt.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> <i>From Cornwall to Lachine the British escort was in command of Captain +Gray of the Quarter Master General's Dept. From Lachine to Montreal Captains +Richardson and Ogilvie with three militia companies, and a company of the 8th Regt. +commanded by Capt. Blackmore formed an escort.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> <i>The line of march in Montreal was as follows:</i> +</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Line of march"> +<tr><td align='left'><i>1st. The 8th Regt. Band.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>2nd. The first escort division.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>3rd. Gen. Hull and Capt. Gray in a carriage.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>4th. The American Officers.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>5th. The non-coms. and soldiers.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><i>6th. The second escort division.</i></td></tr> +</table></div> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> <i>Gen. Hull was paroled at Montreal with 8 other officers and left the city +for the United States.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> <i>The Officers and regular troops of the American Army taken at Detroit +and which have no permission to return on their parole arrived at Anse des Meres +Friday afternoon escorted by a detachment of the Regt. of Glengary of Three Rivers. +The prisoners, with the exception of the officers were immediately embarked in boats +for the transports. The officers were lodged in the city for the night and the following +day were conducted to Charlesbourg where they will be domiciled on parole.</i>—<span class="smcap">Quebec +Gazette</span> +</p><p> +<i>The Quebec Mercury of Sept. 15th says: The commissioned officers were liberated +on their parole. They passed Saturday morning at the Union Hotel where they +were the gazing stock of the multitude, whilst they in no way abashed presented a bold +front to the public stare, puffed the smoke of their cigars into the faces of such as +approached too near. About 2 o'clock they set off by stage with four horses for +Charlesbourg the destined place of their residence.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> <i>The man previously referred to as Duffer.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a><br /> +<i>Commisary General's Office.</i><br /></p> +<div class='right'><span style="margin-left: 15em;"><i>Quebec 28 Sept. 1812.</i></span><br /> +</div> +<p> +<i>Wanted for the American prisoners of war comfortable warm clothing consisting +of the following articles viz: Jackets, shirts, trousers, stockings mockessons or shoes—also +2000 lbs of soap. They will require to be delivered immediately.</i></p></div> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> + +<p>The spelling and punctuation errors in the journal pieces were retained. This includes such words as +Wertern for Western, ancor for anchor, "high. and spent", etc.</p> +<p><a href="#Page_24">Page 24</a>, Footnote marker 38 presumed as none was present in the original text.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_28">Page 28</a>, Footnote marker 41 presumed as none was present in the original text.</p> + +<p>The remaining corrections made in the editorial material are indicated by dotted lines under the corrections. 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