Mrs. Amanda Gardner

At Cahaba (Alabama)

Mrs. Amanda Gardner at Cahaba [Source]:

William Kennedy Of Maryland And New Brunswick

 

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903:

Wm. Kennedy

Return Of Prisoners, May 1, 1813

Upper Canada Sundries : C-4543 (Return of the prisoners of His Majesty's regular army on parole at York 1 May 1813):

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Grenadiers

Exchange Of Paymaster

 

Image 242

Fort George

29 March 1813

...the exchange of Paymaster Brook of the 49th Regiment who was captured in the merchant vessel Elizabeth in Lake Ontario on the 11th of November last...

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

POW Donald McDonald's Military Index Card

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform: c-11837 (Image 5339):

Source

McDonald, Donald

Private, 3rd Battalion  New-Jersey

Volunteers. (Prisoner)

27-11-1781

c.1856  P. 72

Prisoner Exchange

 Upper Canada Sundries : C-4543:

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Re Exchange

The proposition for the exchange of Captain Brock for

Captain Dan'l Baker of the first United States Regiment of Infantry...

also those of Captain Murray and Miller for Captains Smith and Brown.

The black man taken with Captain Brock is released from his

parole without exchange.

Signed Morgan Lewis, Major General...U.S. Army

To Major Gen'l Sheaffe

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

A Sergeant From Michigan

"For the first day or two after our arrival at Castle Morgan it was moderately cool, and at that time fresh beef was supplied instead of the usual bacon. When the weather was cool the beef did not become offensive by the time it was brought into prison, but as it was usually exceedingly hot, especially during the middle of the days of the summer and early fall months, sour, nauseating beef was more often the rule than the exception."

Cahaba River In Alabama - Confederate POW Site

"The aroma perceived while cutting it was not like that of the new-blown rose, so I sought among the men of my company for one whose stomach would not easily revolt. I found a sergeant of a Michigan regiment — one who declared that nothing could make him sick — and persuaded him into relieving me from the duty of dividing the beef among the different messes." [Source]

John Bonell's Claim

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903 (Image 496):

Halifax, 27th July 1786 - Evidence of John Bonell's Claim (formerly of Georgia)

• Claimant says he was in Georgia, about 80 miles from Savannah
• In 1784 he went to St. Augustine
• He now lives in Colequid in this Province
• Father lived upon Ogetchie Georg(ia) (and Briar Creek)
• Claimant was taken by the Rebels and taken prisoner

Source

"Says he joined the Militia under Col. Brown at St. Marys...".

Send Down All The Rebel Prisoners

General Frederick Haldimand To Brigadier General Henry Watson Powell

Quebec   21 June 1782

I last night received a dispatch from Sir Guy Carleton, dated New York, 21st May. He informs me
that when he left England, it was the determination of the Ministry and the sense of the nation at
large to pursue all possible means consistent with honour to bring about an accommodation with
America.

You will please, therefore, to give such orders in the district of your command as will prevent any offensive operations being undertaken until you shall hear further from me, but in such a measure as not to occasion a belief of a report prevailing in the colonies that there is a Cessation of Arms, which is by no means the case. You will do your utmost to prevent depredations and cruelties upon the frontiers by the Indians.

To save time, I shall communicate the above immediately to Oswego and Carleton Island.

You will please to send down all the rebel prisoners from your post by the first opportunity.

British Library. Sloane and Additional Manuscripts, Add MSS 21753, Register of Warrants Issued for the Extraordinary Service of the Army, 1782-1784; National Archives of Canada, Haldimand Collection, microfilm reel number A-678.

Josiah Howard, POW

British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform:c-11823

Josiah Howard, Private.

of Amhurst, York States, taken prisoner

28th May 1813

c.694.A.  P. 13.

Cross-posted at War of 1812 Chronicles

Hankins Was A Savage Rascal

One of the most savage rascals we had to guard us was a murderer named Hankins. One day a boyish soldier named "Teddy," a member of the Third Michigan Cavalry, made an arrangement with Hankins to bring him in a few sweet potatoes when next he should come on guard. Hankins was stationed that day near the gateway between the cook-yard and the sleeping-yard.

Teddy approached Hankins when he came on guard again, and from him received and paid for his sweet potatoes. Starting to go into the sleeping-yard, he had just got into the gateway when some friend hailed him from the outside; without thinking where he was, he stopped for a moment and looked around.

That was an opportunity Hankins had wanted; the face of his intended victim was turned away, and no comrade saw the danger in time to warn the boy.  Raising his musket quickly to his shoulder, a big bullet was sent crashing through his body, and Teddy fell to the earth.

Source

Two days after, in the same place, Hankins killed another man with whom but a few moments before he had been in pleasant conversation, and with whom he had not passed an unpleasant word.

In six days of that single week Hankins killed three men, and in each case there was not the least shadow of reason or excuse for the murders. By an Iowa acquaintance I am informed that "when General Wilson's cavalry captured Cahaba some of his men, who had formerly been in Cahaba prison and knew of the kindness of Mrs. Gardner toward the prisoners there, requested to be allowed to go ahead and surround Mrs. Gardner's house, to protect it and its inmates. They also intended to capture and burn Hankins at the stake  but on their arrival Mrs. Gardner told them that Hankins was taken sick and died a natural death in Cahaba after the prisoners left."   [Source]

Cahaba Prison Grounds In Alabama

25th Of September In Charlotte

See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here. 

On the evening and night of the 25th he [General William Davie] took a number of prisoners, and at midnight took up his position at Charlotte, seven miles from the spot where Earl Cornwallis had encamped.

Source

Fannie's First Husband, John Clendenin

Mary (Fannie)'s first husband was Lt. John Clenden(n)in. 

John Clendenin: This one and/or this one (from earlier blog posts).....

North Carolina Revolutionary War Soldiers

Clendenin, John, Ensign

Company: Emmets'

Date of Enlistment & Commission: 15 April 1776

Occurrences:  Lt. 23 Dec 1777; Quartermaster, 13 Dec 1779; Prisoner, 8 September 1781; 

Deranged, 1 January 1783

The American historical magazine:

Heirs sold Clendenin land to James Frazier of Sumner, Tennessee

Witnesses: George Kinnard, Ephraim Young, 11 June 1818

Duncan Cameron, Commissioner

Upper Canada Sundries : C-4508:

Upper Canada Sundries Traitors & Treason

Image 602

Date: 17 May 1814

Home District, York
D. (Duncan) Cameron's signature

Other names mentioned and also a cache of weapons described

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

Lt. Clendennin

 The American historical magazine:

Loyalists Choosing Townships

From The Loyalists Of America (Townships)

The Governor came, and having assembled the companies before him, called for Mr. Grass, and said: 'Now, you were the first person to mention this fine country, and have been here formerly as a prisoner of war. You must have the first choice. The townships are numbered first, second, third, fourth, and fifth. Which do you choose?' My father says: ' The first township (Kingston).'

Source

Then the Governor says to Sir John Johnson, 'Which do you choose for your company?' He replies, 'The second township (Ernest Town).' To Colonel Rogers, 'Which do you choose?' He says, 'The third township (Fredericksburgh).'  To Major Vanalstine, 'Which do you choose V?' He replies, 'The fourth township (Adolphustown).' Then Colonel McDonell, with his company, got the fifth township (Marysburgh).

Source

So after this manner the first settlement of Loyalists in Canada was made.

Donald McDonald, POW

 

Donald McDonald

Castle Morgan

Sign At Castle Morgan

"It is proper here to give a general consideration to the position that Castle Morgan should occupy in the history of the Rebellion before entering into its details. As a depot for Federal prisoners, Castle Morgan is almost unknown to history and in tradition."

View From Castle Morgan (Alabama)

"This statement is surprising, when one becomes aware that it was one of the large prisons of the South (it contained two and one half times as many prisoners as Libby); that it was by far the most crowded prison of the Confederacy; that while its inmates endured nearly all the rigors of other prisons, in some of its particulars their hardships and sufferings far exceeded those known in any prison." [Source]

Escape From The Jersey

 

Source

Captain Henderson In Charge Of Cahaba Prison

In these memoirs of Cahaba a prominent place should be given to Captain (later Colonel) Howard A. M. Henderson. Colonel Henderson entered the Confederate service, from Kentucky, as a captain of the Colonel Clay Cadets. For a time he was in field service, then was sent to take charge of the prison at Cahaba.

River At The Prison At Cahaba In Alabama

Here [at Cahaba] he was promoted, and appointed Assistant Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners of War, and assigned to duty for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. He had charge of the prisoners at Opelika, Macon, Cahaba, Selma, Meridian, and Enterprise, Miss. The relations of Henderson with the officers of the Union Army, as an officer connected with the exchange of prisoners, were often intimate and cordial, and by many of the non-commissioned officers and privates he is remembered with kindly wishes.   [Source]

From Henderson's Civil War File at Fold3.com: