Fort Mims massacre

Victims Unknown
Location
35 to 40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama near Bay Minette, Alabama
Result

Decisive Red Stick victory

Red Sticks take Fort Mims and kill inhabitants
Date August 30, 1813
Criminal penalty Unknown

Introduction

Related

  1. List of Indian massacres
  2. List of massacres in Alabama
  3. Mississippi Rifles {155th Infantry MNG}
  4. Tombigbee District

Sources

  • Waselkov, p. 99.
  • Heidler, p. 133. Waselkov, p. 4, gives 700.
  • Thrapp, p. 1524
  • Halbert, Ball, p. 148.
  • Heidler, p. 355, gives 100
  • Heidler, p.355, gives 247.
  • Lossing, Benson (1868). The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. p. 756.
  • Heidler, p. 354.
  • Waselkov, pp. 99–100.
  • Waselkov, p. 100.
  • David Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (2004) p. 106.
  • Waselkov. p. 115.
  • Waselkov, pp. 110–111.
  • Halber, Ball, p. 148, gives 553.
  • "Fort Mims" Archived 2008-05-30 at the Wayback Machine, Alabama Historical Commission.
  • Weir, p. 163-164
  • Abbott, John S. C., David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, Dodd and Mead, 1874, Chapter 3. Halbert, Ball, p. 150.
  • Halbert, Ball, p. 152.
  • Halbert, Ball, p. 158.
  • Waselkov, p. 131
  • Halbert, Ball, p. 156.
  • Halbert, Ball, p. 155. Heidler, p. 355.
  • Waselkov, p. 33, gives 100 or so slaves in the fort.
  • Waselkov, p. 135.
  • Waselkov, p. 134.
  • Heidler, p. 355.
  • Saunt, Claudio (1999). A New Order of Things. Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521660432.
  • "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  • Waselkov, p. 142.
  • Waslkov, p. 138
  • Margaret Mitchell (1936). Gone With the Wind. Library Binding. pp. 452–53. ISBN 978-1439570838.