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	Ft. Mims Massacre, Baldwin County, Alabama 1813
		The fort’s main gate, located on the east side of the stockade, had not been closed by the garrison troops and was lodged open by a shifting bank of sand.
		The fort’s assistant surgeon, Dr. Thomas G. Holmes, escaped from the burning fort and hid in a hole by the roots of a fallen tree.
		In the months after the massacre, a Fort Mims survivor named Zachariah McGirth, was overjoyed to see is wife and 7 daughters, whom he believed at been killed, arrive at the Mobile wharf.
	www.canerossi.us /ftmims/massacre.htm (3456 words)

	MASSACRE of FORT MIMS
		The Massacre at Fort Mims, in Baldwin County, took place one month after the Battle of Burnt Corn, which was fought some 50 miles northeast of Tensaw in the same county.
		One such was Fort Mims which consisted of a stockade constructed around Samuel Mims’s home, a large one story frame structure with additional sheds, on land adjacent to Lake Tensaw.
		He was drawn into the Fort Mims expedition but did everything possible to warn the garrison there of the intended attack and felt that he would have succeeded had the commander, Beasley, not been drunk.
	www.prophecykeepers.com /chickamaugacherokee/fortmims.html (1910 words)

	Fort Mims massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Mims – Burnt Corn – Tallushatchee – Talladega – Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek – Horseshoe Bend
		The Fort Mims massacre occurred on 30 August 1813 when a force of "Red Sticks" under Peter McQueen attacked a group of settlers and militia in Fort Mims.
		The massacre marked the transition from a civil war within the Creek tribe (Moscoge), to a war between the United States and the Red Stick warriors of the Upper Creek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Mims_Massacre (745 words)

	Fort Mims - Encyclopedia.com
		Fort Mims temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers.
		It was the scene of a massacre (Aug. 30, 1813); William Weatherford led a Native American force in the killing of c.500 whites.
		The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/6/1996; BOB MIMS; 396 words; The numbers were almost laughable: 12 points in the first quarter, 24 at halftime, 38 after three quarters.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-FortMims.html (1134 words)

	Alabama Forts
		A settlers' stockaded fort somewhere on the west-side of the Tombigbee River.
		The fort was a one-acre stockade around Samuel Mims' garrison house and several cabins, manned by 265 militiamen and their families.
		A CSA earthwork fort that was unfinished at the end of the war.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/al.html (1346 words)

	The Book Shop
		Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
		The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims, involving hundreds of dead men, women, and children, was just such a spark.
		In the process, the artifacts from Samuel Mims' frontier plantation (1797-1813) are contrasted with the posessions of the fort's 400+ refugees and garrison prior to the battle of August 30, 1813.
	www.southalabama.edu /archaeology/the-book-shop.htm (1219 words)

	FORT MIMS, MASSACRE OF,
		massacre of settlers in Alabama on Aug. 30, 1813, during the Creek Indian uprising.
		On this day in 1968, a platoon of American soldiers brutally kill between 200 and 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located.
		In Chicago, gunmen in the suspected employment of organized-crime boss Al Capone murder seven members of the George "Bugs" Moran North Siders gang in a.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..fo063300.a (574 words)

	Alabama History
		Fort Toulouse was located on a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers in Elmore County near Montgomery.
		Fort Mims was considered the strongest fort in the territory and was located near the curve of the Alabama along the northwest edge of present-day Baldwin County.
		On August 30, 1813, Fort Mims was attacked by a band of Red Stick Creeks led by an Indian half-breed, William Weatherford, known as Chief Red Eagle.
	www.riversofalabama.org /Alabama/AL_History.htm (685 words)

	THE ROMANCE OF RED EAGLE
		He refused to be carried to the interior of the fort, preferring to remain where he was, to animate and direct his troops, and by courage to atone for his negligence.
		As he now labored to save the lives of the remaining whites, his followers, with fierce suspicion, told him that not long before he had attempted to desert from the cause, and if he made further efforts in behalf of their enemies that he himself was the first man who should be put to death.
		The people in the fort, unarmed and absorbed in their sorrow, went outside the stockade to a little valley fifty yards away to bury the bodies of their friends.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/pioneer/chap21.html (8498 words)

	Fort Mims Massacre
		The Fort Mims massacre occurred on August 30 when a force of Red Sticks under Peter McQueen attacked a group of settlers and militia in Fort Mims.
		However mounted scouts from the fort found no signs of the war party, and Beasley had the second slave flogged for raising a false alarm.
		The massacre marked the transition from a civil war within the Creek tribe (Moscoge) to a war between the United States and the Red Stick warriors of the Upper Creek.
	www.mywarof1812.com /battles/130830.htm (532 words)

	Alabama Archives: Teacher Packet
		The Creek Indian attack on Fort Mims was one of the primary causes of the Creek War of 1813-14.
		This Map of Fort Mims and its environs belonged to Gen. Claiborne The map delineates, with sketches of trees and shrubs, the clearing in which Fort Mims stood, and it shows a layout of the fort with simple sketches of the buildings within the barricades.
		The main road to the fort from the Pensacola road is marked as well as the main ferry landing on the Alabama River.
	www.archives.state.al.us /teacher/creekwar/creek2.html (1000 words)

	Fort Mims Queries
		Mims Massacre and he "strapped a small girl to his back and swam the river." His brother, Spruce McKay OSBORNE did not survive the massacre.
		Mims massacre and moved to GA to what later became Pierce County where he became Methodist Bishop and raised many children.
		This fort stood on a table-land or height of ground extending for a mile north and south.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cmamcrk4/mmsqr.html (1987 words)

	Jimmy Faulkner - Mumblings, presented by Site One on the Internet
		Also there were battles up on the western coast of Baldwin County at Point Clear, Spanish Fort, etc. Many claim the Battle of Spanish Fort was the last battle of the Civil War and was fought after the treaty, but the soldiers had not received the message and many people were killed unnecessarily.
		Unfortunately, there is not a lot to see at Fort Mims, but dedicated people have kept working at it and have located and outlined the exact location of the fort.
		An interesting tidbit; a massacre is when Indians kill white folk and others in a battle and a battle is when white folk kill Indians, hence the massacre of Fort Mims and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
	www.siteone.com /columns/faulkner/articles/jf091202.htm (787 words)

	Mims Family Genealogy Forum (Page 3)
		Re: Mims in Kentcuky and Arkansas - Jeanne Mims Filice 6/07/01
		Re: Mims from SC to Mississippi - Jeanne Mims Filice 2/13/02
		Re: Mims from SC to Mississippi - Jeanne Mims Filice 10/12/03
	genforum.genealogy.com /mims/page3.html#531 (3122 words)

	Red Sticks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metal pots and pans as well as spun cloth would be routinely gathered and burned.
		The Creek Civil War broadened to include American forces after the Fort Mims Massacre.
		Led by William Weatherford, Menawa, and Peter McQueen, the war resulted in the loss of half of the traditional Creek territory and another migration of Creeks into the Florida Seminole territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Sticks (250 words)

	Orange Beach, AL- Daytrip Ideas
		The fort is no longer there, but signs tell the story of the largest Indian massacre in U.S. history.
		In 1820, the fort was removed and the current Fort Conde, about 1/3 of the the original fort recreated in 4/5 scale, opened on July 4, 1976.
		Fort San Carlos – connected to Ft. Barrancas, this is an old redoubt built by the early Spanish.
	www.orangebeach.ws /daytripideas.html (1427 words)

	Fort Mims DAR
		The Fort Mims Chapter NSDAR was organized in 1949 under the leadership of Mrs.
		The name was chosen in remembrance of Fort Mims, the site of the largest Indian massacre in American history.
		Several chapter members serve on the Board of Directors of the Fort Mims Restoration Association promoting public awareness, education, and restoration of the site and an annual commemorative event.
	users.wildblue.net /fortmimsdar (249 words)

	USA Creek Indian War 1813-1814
		The Creek Indians, who had been allies of the British during the War of 1812, were angered by white encroachment on their hunting grounds in Georgia and Alabama.
		In 1813, some Creeks under Chief Red Eagle (William Watherford) (1780?-1824) attacked and burned Fort Mims on the lower Alabama River, killing about 500 whites [the Fort Mims Massacre].
		At the Treaty of Fort Jackson on August 9, 1814, the Creek were compelled to cede 23 million acres (half of Alabama and part of southern Georgia) to the whites.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/cite/creek1813.htm (293 words)

	Timeline War of 1812
		Fort Michilimackinac surrenders to the British, July 17
		Fort George evacuated and Newark burned by Americans, December 10
		Lewiston, Fort Schlosser, Black Rock, and Buffalo destroyed by the British, December 19-31
	www.societyofthewarof1812.org /1812timl.htm (590 words)

	Welcome to the University of Alabama Press Search Page
		The Fort Mims massacre changed the course of American history in many ways, not the least of which was the ensuing rise of one Andrew Jackson to the national stage.
		Tragedies such as this one have always rallied Americans to a common cause: a single-minded determination to destroy the enemy and avenge the fallen.
		With valuable maps, tables, and artifact illustrations, Waselkov looks closely at the battle to cut through the legends and misinformation that have grown around the event almost from the moment the last flames died at the smoldering ruins.
	www.uapress.ua.edu /NewSearch2.cfm?id=133348 (424 words)

	Battle of Horseshoe Bend
		This regional sidelight to the War of 1812, known as the Creek War (1813-14) located in Attalla, reached crisis proportions in August 1813.
		Fort Mims, a small outpost north of Mobile, was overrun; warriors ignored pleas for restraint from their leader Red Eagle (also known as William Weatherford) and slaughtered more than 300 settlers and militia men.
		Word of the "Fort Mims Massacre" was received by the ailing Andrew Jackson in Nashville.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1128.html (793 words)

	Brazoria County Tx Homepages, Cemeteries of TX, Gloria B. Mayfield
		Also of interest but outside of Texas, Joseph's father was Samuel Mims who made his home into a fort in Alabama and Samuel along with more than 500 people were massacred by the Creek Indians in 1813.
		This massacre is the largest single massacre in U.S. history.
		The fort became known as Fort Mims and the massacre became known as the Fort Mims massacre which is tied in with the War of 1812 Check out our Homepage http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mimsfamily
	www.cemeteries-of-tx.com /Etx/Brazoria/homepage/Mims.htm (202 words)

	Mallard Haven area
		The area was part of The Trail of Tears which occurred as a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 when the United States Government attempted to move all the five tribes of the Southeast to territory in the West.
		Creek Indians were captured near Montgomery and were marched south to Mobile Bay, placed on boats, and moved west to New Orleans to the Mississippi River, Arkansas River, and then on to Oklahoma.
		Fort Morgan was built on Mobile Bay in the years immediately following the War of 1812 when the newly formed United States government saw the need to continue protecting it's borders.
	www.mallardhaven.com /gulf/area.htm (505 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: CREEK WAR OF 1813 AND 1814
		During the course of their revolt, the Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims on the lower reaches of the Alabama River, killing approximately 275 of the fort's white and Creek mixed blood inhabitants.
		The Fort Mims massacre shocked the white citizens of the United States, and they determined to crush the Creek uprising.
		With their long history of border conflict with the Creeks and their fear of Britain's northern Indian allies, Tennesseans took the lead in the war.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=C163 (759 words)

	Floripedia: Jackson, Andrew
		The fort was commanded by a negro, Garcia, and was known as the Negro Fort.
		Colonel Clinch was sent against the fort, and attacked it with 116 men and some Creek allies.
		One of the most shocking massacres was that of Lieutenant Scott and his command.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /Florida/docs/j/jacks04.htm (2159 words)

	S Mims Biographical Notes - Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
		Mims, Co. B, and occupied as a planter.
		son of Samuel Mims (massacred at the "Fort Mims Massacre" at AL)
		If you have additional or conflicting information we urge you to contact us that this resource may continue to grow and develop.
	www.terrystexasrangers.org /biographical_notes/m/mims_s.htm (290 words)

	State of Alabama Time-Line
		September,1814--British attack on Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point fails, prompting them to abandon plans to capture Mobile and turn towards New Orleans.
		February,1815--British forces take Fort Bowyer on return from defeat at New Orleans, then abandon upon learning that the war is over.
		Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) and the subsequent campaign which involved action at Spanish Fort (April 8, 1865) and Blakeley (April 9) before the fall of the city of Mobile (April 12).
	www.myalabamagenealogy.com /al_state/time-line.htm (839 words)

	ADAH: Alabama Moments (War of 1812 & Creek War, 1813-14--Bibliography)
		The names of participants (their ancestors and children), locations of battles with full descriptions of gory scenes, and comments on accounts of informants and other writers make this a wonderful source.
		Students will find textbook accounts of the Fort Mims massacre pale compared to this one.
		The question of what caused the Creek conflict, whether it was a civil war brought on by factionalism between Lower Creeks and Upper Creeks, is debated.
	www.alabamamoments.state.al.us /sec04bib.html (404 words)

	Massacre of Fort Mims - MSN Encarta
		Massacre of Fort Mims, massacre of settlers in Alabama on August 30, 1813, during the Creek uprising.
		Do high-profile schools really provide a better education?
		"Massacre of Fort Mims," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555930/Massacre_of_Fort_Mims.html (102 words)

	Albums By Sharon Blair - ImageEvent
		Fort Mims - 2006 (August 26 - 27, 2006)
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	www.imageevent.com /whipgrey (2229 words)

	THE TOMBIGBEE ENIGMA Between about 1800 and 1820
		The First and Second Creek Wars, The Fort Mims Massacre, The War of 1812, and the Capture of Aaron Burr.
		He was military commander of the territory between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, where was located Fort Glass and Fort Madison.
		Nothing is known of these children and it is possible that one or more died at the massacre at Fort Mims.
	www.carsonsofbrazoscounty.com /Tombigbee.htm (2025 words)

	Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812 : Genealogical Publishing Company
		This is the major historical and genealogical source for information on the part played by the Mississippi Territory in the campaign against the British and the Creeks during the War of 1812.
		Rowland's detailed historical narrative discusses all the major conflicts in the Mississippi theater, commencing with the Battle of Burnt Corn in July 1813 and the massacre at Fort Mims--which resulted in Andrew Jackson's assumption of command--through the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to the legendary Battle of New Orleans.
		Of greater genealogical interest, however, is the book's "Rolls of Mississippi Commands in the War of 1812," a 76-page section giving the names and ranks of upwards of 7,500 soldiers and officers.
	www.genealogical.com /index.php?main_page=product_info&ref=1000&item_number=5025 (233 words)

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