[2]After the war, Bondie was rewarded by being appointed issuing commissary for the Fort Wayne garrison.
[3]Stickney’s account of the siege first appeared in the _Fort Wayne Times_, May 27, 1856.
[4]Daniel Curtis to Col. Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Library. Curtis also wrote to a friend named James Cullen C. Witherell on Oct. 4, 1812, concerning the siege. This second letter is almost a copy of the one sent to Kingsbury and is found in the Indiana Historical Society Library.
[5]_IHC_, IX, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 89.
[6]T. B. Helm, _History of Allen County, Indiana_, p. 39.
[7]_IHC_, IX, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 99.
[10]Curtis to Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[11]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books_, ed. Bert J. Griswold, p. 371.
[14]Benjamin Drake, _Life of Tecumseh and of his Brother and Prophet_, p. 50.
[15]_IHC_, IX, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 108.
[16]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books_, ed. Bert J. Griswold, pp. 371-2.
[17]Curtis to Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[19]_IHC_, IX, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 131.
[20]Robert McAfee, _History of the Late War_, p. 123.
[21]Lt. Curtis to Col. Kingsbury, Sept. 21, 1812, Kingsbury Papers, Chicago Historical Society Library.
[25]_Indiana as Seen by Early Travelers_, ed. Harlow Lindley, p. 243.
[26]Major Brock to Sir George Prevost, Sept. 18, 1812, _Michigan Historical Collections_, XV, 88.
[27]Major Muir to Colonel Procter, Sept. 29, 1812, _Michigan Historical Collections_, XV, 93.
[28]Colonel Proctor to General Brock, Oct. 5, 1812, _Michigan Historical Collections_, XV, 97.
[29]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books_, ed. Bert J. Griswold, p. 373.
[31]Wallace Brice, _History of Fort Wayne_, p. 134.
[32]_IHC_, XV, _Fort Wayne Garrison Orderly Books_, ed. Bert J. Griswold, pp. 381 and 389.
[33]_IHC_, IX, _Harrison’s Messages and Letters_, ed. Logan Esarey, p. 157.
[34]Major Jenkinson to Mrs. Jenkinson, March 14, 1814, Fort Wayne Public Library.
[35]George Washington Whistler rose to fame in the topographical service of the government. His death occurred in Russia in 1849, while he was superintending the construction of the St. Petersburg to Moscow railroad. His son, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, became one of the most famous artists.