Meeting of General Brock and Grand Chief Tecumseh at Fort Malden on 13 Aug 1812.
Captain Glegg, who met Tecumseh at Fort Malden, left this description of the Shawnee chief: ‘Tecumseh was very prepossessing, his figure light and finely proportioned, his age I imagined to be about five-and-thirty, his height five feet nine or ten inches, his complexion light copper, his countenance oval, with bright hazel eyes beaming cheerfulness, energy and decision. Three small crowns or coronets were suspended from the lower cartilage of his aquiline nose, and a large silver medallion of George III (
King of England ), which I believe his ancestor received from Lord Dorchester when governor-general of Canada, was attached to a mixed coloured wampum string which hung round his neck. His dress consisted of a plain, neat uniform, a tanned deer-skin jacket with long trousers of the same material, the seams of both being covered with neatly cut fringe, and he had on his feet leather moccasins much ornamented with work made from the dyed quills of the porcupine.’
In 1779 "Little Ship Under Full Sail" (Eleanor Lytle--the future Mrs. John Kinzie) at age 9 was stolen* in a raid by
British sponsored Seneca Indians and taken to Ohio where she was raised by Seneca Chief CornPlanter as his daughter for four years. She was a feisty young girl who never lost her spirit even though she was held captive. She was nicknamed "Little Ship..." because she had so much energy and spirit. The Seneca treated her like a princess. All of her life she regarded her second father Chief CornPlanter with great affection.
Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie wrote in her book, "WAU-BUN":
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Probably few are ignorant of the fact, that all the Indian tribes, with the exception of the Miamis and Wyandots, had, since transfer of the old French possessions to the British Crown, maintained a firm alliance with the latter. The independence achieved by the United States (War for Independence)did not alter the policy of the natives, nor did the Government succeed in winning or purchasing their friendship. Great Britain, it is true, bid high to retain them. Every year the leading men of the Chippewas, Ottawas, Pottowattamies, Menomonees, Winnebegos, Sauks, and Foxes, and even still more remote tribes, journeyed from their distant homes to Fort Malden in Upper Canada, to receive their annual amount of presents from their Great Father across the water. It was a master-policy thus to keep them in pay, and enabled those who practiced it to do fearful execution* through the aid of such allies in the war between the two countries.
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*fearful execution: in this case the raiding, scalping and stealing children from the white settlers.
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If the question was asked, "Who was and still is the most hated and despised man in the history of Georgia" the response would be William Tecumseh Sherman.
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This controversial general of the Union Army during the Civil War was a longtime friend of the Kinzie family. In 1864, Sherman succeeded U. S. Grant as the Union commander in the western theater of the war. He proceeded to lead his troops to the capture of the city of Atlanta, a military success that contributed to the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's subsequent March to the Sea, through Georgia and the Carolinas, further undermined the Confederacy, ultimately contributing to the Confederate army surrender in 1865. Upon arriving in Savannah in the winter of 1864, the citizens were ready to surrender and Sherman gave the city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
Soon after, he visited his old friend Nelly Gordon to take her letters and packages from Chicago. He also brought the two older girls, Nelly and Daisy, a gift of rock sugar candy, the first sugar the girls had ever eaten. Later in life when delivering speeches on the lecture circuit, he(General Sherman) often recounted a funny anecdote about the 4-year-old Daisy Gordon. After eating her sugar, she sat on his lap and began to curiously inspect his head. When he asked what she was doing, she told him she had heard him called that ”old Devil Sherman” and she wanted to see his horns. This story never failed to get him a laugh. For more information about General Sherman, visit the Fairfield Heritage Association.
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note: "Nellie" Kinzie Gordon was the daughter of John and Juliette Kinzie of Chicago. Nellie's husband was a Confederate officer; her father-in-law was the first graduate of West Point from Georgia; her uncle was famous Union General David Hunter; her brother John Kinzie IV, brother George, brother Arthur, were Union officers; her brother-in-law was a Confederate officer.
"Nellie" Kinzie Gordon saw her family split in two; her Northern side of the family fighting against her Southern side in the American Civil War; essentially her brothers fighting her brothers-in-law.
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