A DRAWING OF FORT MIMS
This is a copy of a map of Fort Mims that was found among the papers of General Claiborne. It was very small and I've blown it up a bit. There are callouts to help locate the layout elements. I will add directions in parenthesis to orient you. The callouts are pretty much in clockwise order.
1. Block house (that
is the upper left corner of the stockade
2. Pickets cut away by the Indians (to
the right of the block house)
3. Guard's Station (next to cutaway
pickets)
4. Guard House (house just below station)
5. Western Gate (opening at extreme
top)
6. This Gate was shut, but a hole was cut
by the Indians (just below the Western Gate)
7. Captain Bailey's Station (this is
Dixon Bailey -- in the middle right-- the area jutting out, that
hut structure)
8. Steadham's House (the small house
to the upper right of Mims' house -- which is right in the middle)
9. Mrs. Dyers' house (the house between
Steadham's and Mims' houses)
10. Kitchen (the structure to the upper
left of Mims' house, by the tree)
11. Mims' House (the building right
in the middle of the stockade)
12. Randon's House (to the lower right
of Mims' House, down by the soldiers' tents)
13. Old Gate-Way -- open (directly
below Mims' House -- the opening)
14. Ensign Chambliss' Tent (first tent,
just to left of Old Gate-Way)
15. Ensign Gibbs' (tent to left of Chambliss's
tent)
16. Randon's (next tent to left)
17. Captain Middleton's (next tent to
left, next to tree)
18. Captain Jack's Station (The large
house on the left, where stockade juts)
19., 20., 21. Port-holes taken by Indians
(to left of Captain Jack's Station)
22. Major
Beasley's Cabin (the small house below the officers's tents)
23. Captain Jack's Company (the 2 rows
of tents below Major Beasley's Cabin)
24. Captain Middleton's Company (the
2 rows of tents on the right, opposite those of Captain Jack's Company)
25. Where Major Beasley fell (where
the logs bow, at the bottom of the stockade)
26. Eastern Gate, where the Indians
entered ( the opening in the stockade where Beasley fell)
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