Fort Mims massacre

Fort Mims massacre
Part of Creek War
Date August 30, 1813 Location 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]

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.