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
Belligerents
Red Stick Creek
United States
Commanders and leaders
William Weatherford Peter McQueen
Major Daniel Beasley Dixon Bailey
Strength
750[1]-1,000[2]warriors
265 militia, including:[3]
70 Tensaw home militia
175 Mississippi volunteers
16 from Fort Stoddard
Casualties and losses
50 to 100 killed[4] unknown wounded
265 militia killed or captured 252 civilians killed or captured[5] unknown wounded Fort Mims severely damaged[2]
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Creek War
1813
Burnt Corn
Fort Mims
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Canoe Fight
Autossee
Holy Ground
1814
Calebee Creek
Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek
Horseshoe Bend
The Fort Mims massacre took place on August 30, 1813, at a fortified homestead site 35-40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, during the Creek War. A large force of Creek Indians belonging to the Red Sticks faction, under the command of headmen Peter McQueen and William Weatherford (also known as Lamochattee or Red Eagle), stormed the fort and defeated the militia garrison.
Afterward, the Red Sticks conducted a massacre, killing almost all the remaining mixed Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims. They took nearly 100 enslaved African Americans as captives. The small fort consisted of a blockhouse and stockade surrounding the house and outbuildings of settler Samuel Mims.
^Heidler, p. 133. Waselkov, p. 4, gives 700.
^ abThrapp, p. 1524
^Halbert, Ball, p. 148.
^Heidler, p. 355, gives 100
^Heidler, p.355, gives 247.
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