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56: 86: 93: 63: 358:, the settlers who occupied Fort Sinquefield fled to Fort Glass and Fort Madison for protection. Ten men from Fort Glass went to Fort Sinquefield to recover bodies of the slain and to assist with burials. After news of the Fort Sinquefield attack reached Fort Glass, Jeremiah Austill traveled by horseback to inform General Claiborne at 334:
feared swift revenge on part of the Red Sticks. Claiborne sent Colonel Joseph Carson with two hundred mounted soldiers to Fort Glass as reinforcements to protect the settlers in the surrounding area. These soldiers arrived at Fort Glass on August 10, 1813. Soon after their arrival, the soldiers began
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Nothing remains at the site of Fort Glass today. In 1858, the Fort Madison Church was built on the site of Fort Glass. The approximate site of Fort Glass has been identified and archaeological surveys have been made of the area, but no defining features have been found.
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on public lands. To protect themselves the settlers built temporary stockades, and most were named for the person who owned the land the stockade was built on. After the Creek War, most of these forts were dismantled.
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Fort Glass was built in 1813 by and named for Zachariah Glass. The fort was rectangular in shape, sixty yards by forty yards, and constructed of hewn pine logs.
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The American settlers became fearful after these Creek attacks and were unsure if the United States would protect them due to fact they were
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construction of a new fort located two hundred and twenty-five yards northwest of Fort Glass. This new fort was named
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A Glance into the Great South-East, or Clarke County, Alabama, and its surroundings, from 1540 to 1877
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History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period
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with supplies, Colonel James Caller stopped at Fort Glass after passing through
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Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama
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Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War & the War of 1812
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of 1813 began as a civil war between supporters of the
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was a stockade fort built in July 1813 in present-day
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Suggsville, Alabama

Fort Glass is located in Alabama
Fort Glass is located in the United States
31°31′19″N 87°43′08″W / 31.52194°N 87.71889°W / 31.52194; -87.71889
Clarke County, Alabama
Creek War
War of 1812
Creek War
Creek
Red Sticks
War of 1812
Britain
squatters
Samuel Dale
Georgia
Fort St. Stephens
Peter McQueen
Pensacola
Jackson
Battle of Burnt Corn
Ferdinand Claiborne
Fort Madison
James Madison
Alabama
Tombigbee Rivers
Fort Sinquefield
Mount Vernon
Fort Carney
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