418 McINTOSH COUNTY. 



interference of Sir ^Eneas Mcintosh, of the British army. In 

 1814 he was found in the defence of his country. He died 

 in Mcintosh county, November 12, 1826. 



Col. John S. Mcintosh, who lost his life in the late war 

 with Mexico, was born in Liberty county, on the 19th of June, 

 1787, and was the fourth son of Col. John Mcintosh, of revolu- 

 tionary memory. He entered the army in 1812, as lieutenant, 

 and was attached to the rifle regiment, in which he performed 

 severe service in Canada, and on our northern frontier. In 

 May, 1814, a detachment of his regiment, under the command 

 of Major Daniel Appling, was ordered to accompany Captain 

 Woolsey, of the navy, in charge of a number of boats, laden 

 with supplies for the vessels of war, then recently built at 

 Sackett's Harbour. After leaving Oswego, they entered 

 Sandy creek, where they were to be landed, and thence 

 conveyed overland to their destination. Sir James Yeo, 

 commanding the lake fleet, ascertaining the particulars, des- 

 patched several gun-boats and cutters to capture these stores, 

 and the escorts. Accordingly, they entered the creek, disem- 

 barked a body of marines and seamen near where Capt. Wool- 

 sey was engaged in landing the stores. The small band of ri- 

 flemen, apprized of the approach of the enemy, concealed them- 

 selves in the woods ; the gun-vessels as they approached fired 

 shot into the bushes, to disperse any enemy that might be 

 there. As soon as the flotilla and troops got sufficiently near, 

 the rifles poured upon them a destructive fire, and in a few mi- 

 nutes the whole were either killed, wounded, or prisoners, not 

 a paan escaping. All the gun-boats fell into their hands. This 

 signal defeat induced the British commander to raise the block- 

 ade immediately, and they disappeared from the harbour. For 

 his gallantry in this action, the Legislature of Georgia compli- 

 mented Mcintosh with a sword. In another conflict with the 

 enemy, in defending the hospitals at Buffalo, he received a se- 

 vere gunshot wound. On his recovery, he married a lady of 

 New- York, and rejoined the army. When hostilities ceased, 

 he was employed in difl^erent parts of the country, and 

 served with General Jackson throughout the Indian war, and 

 for a considerable time commanded the post at Tampa, in Flo- 

 rida, Thence he was removed to Mobile, and afterwards 



