‘Fort Stoddert”
Date
4-7-1812
Newspaper
Petersburg Intelligencer
Page and Column
Page 1, Column 4
Newspaper Location
Petersburg, Virginia
Serial Number
1036
Abstract
Report on military movements and officers in the vicinity of Fort Stoddert, Alabama. Possible New Madrid eyewitness sources
Transcript
FORT STODDERT, March 11. On the 5th inst cap WM. LAWRENCE, of the 2d regt. of Infantry, arrived at this place, with his own and capt. Campbell's company, who have been engaged cutting the Road towards Tennessee, which we understand is completely opened, except a few miles on this side of the Cotton Gin Port, that was so much inundated and so very boggy as to be rendered impassable. At this point capt. L. was met by the party who had cleared from the Muscle Shoals. The captain falling short of provisions, found it necessary to build flat bottom Boats and descend the Tombigby with all possible dispatch, to avoid starvation; for the water courses were so full, and the adjacent country so entirely inundated, that it would have been literally impossible to pass them at this season, with the few days provision which were on hand, and the only alternative was the one the captain judiciously chose.
Recommended Citation
"‘Fort Stoddert”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1006.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1006
