The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical DocumentsKirkland, Joseph
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The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical Documents
Kirkland, Joseph
Chicago (Ill.) -- History; Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812
Hugh Logan " 5 May 1806 "
*Frederick Locker " 13 April 1810 "
Andrew Loy " 6 July 1807 "
August Mott " 9 July 1806 "
Ralph Miller " 19 Dec. 1805 Term expired 19 Dec. 1810
Peter Miller " 13 June 1806 Present, unfit for service.
*Duncan McCarty " 2 Aug. 1807 Present.
Patrick McGowan " 30 April 1806 "
James Mabury " 14 April 1806 "
William Moffit " 23 April 1806 "
John Moyan " 28 June 1806 "
*John Neads " 5 July 1808 "
*Joseph Noles " 8 Sept 1810 "
*Thomas Poindexter " 3 Sept. 1810 "
William Pickett " 6 June 1806 "
*Frederick Peterson " 1 June 1808 "
*David Sherror " 1 Oct. 1810 "
*John Suttonfield " 8 Sept. 1807 "
*John Smith " 2 April 1808 "
*James Starr " 18 Nov. 1809 "
Phillip Smith " 30 April 1806 "
*John Simmons " 14 March 1810 "
*James Van Home " 2 May 1810 " (sick).
Anthony L. Waggoner " 9 Jan. 1806 " (sick).
* Men who are likely to have been in service at the time of the
massacre.
APPENDIX C.
THE WHISTLER FAMILY.
[Illustration: WILD ONION.]
ACCORDING to Gardner's Military Dictionary, Captain John
Whistler was born in Ireland. He was originally a British soldier, and
was made prisoner with General Burgoyne at the battle of Saratoga,
in 1777, where our General Henry Dearborn was serving as Major.
The captives were conducted to Boston, where, by the terms of the
capitulation, they should have been paroled; but for some reason (which
the English, by considered no sufficient excuse for not complying with
the military agreement) the Continental Congress held them as prisoners
of war until the peace of 1783.
John Whistler did not return to England, but joined the American army
and became first sergeant, and then won his way to a captaincy in the
First Infantry, in which capacity he came, in 1804, and built the first
Fort Dearborn. He was brevetted major in 1812, and served with his
company until it was disbanded after the close of the war (June, 1815).
He died in 1827 at Bellefontaine, Missouri, where he had been military
storekeeper for several years. John Wentworth (Fort Dearborn; Fergus'
Historical Series, No. 16, p. 14) says:
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