SAW THIS ON WAR OF 1812 LIST, THERE IS MENTION OF LOUISIANA MILITIA Here is an article that should be of interest on the POW's held at Halifax, there were naval prisoners there also. I believe there is information available through the Candian archives, check their website. The Pa Militiamen were from Col. Fenton's Regiment from Cumberland, Adams and Franklin Counties, called up for the defense of Erie, PA, and were later transferred to Gen. Porter's command in Gen. Jacob Brown's Army for the 1814 Campaign into UC. - Mark CARTELS FROM HALIFAX (American Prisoners of War) Salem, March 25, 1815. On Thursday last arrived here, the British transport brigs, Union and Hope, eight days from Halifax, with 350 prisoners, consisting of officers, soldiers and sailors of the United States Army and Navy, officers and parts of crews of Privateers, and other seamen and militia. About 700 were left in Halifax. There was no news of any kind at Halifax and no American vessels had been sent in for a long time. Fifteen or twenty failures had taken place in consequence of the peace.      The following officers have arrived in the above cartels; Of the Army: Lieuts. Ballard, Fontaine, Perry; Cornets; Johnson & Gillis. Of the Navy: Lieuts. Turner, Storer, Gilliams &Web; Sailing Masters, Wright and Hall; and 12 or 15 Midshipmen and Masters Mates.      Militia: Col. Churchill, Majors, Stanton and Wilson of the New York Volunteers; Major Galloway of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Major Enoch M. Lowe, of Louisiana; Captains, Bunt, Crouch, White, Case, Roberts; Lieuts. Case, Church, Clark; Quarter Master of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, and several other Lieuts. And Ensigns, whose names have not been ascertained.      Capt. Evans of the General Putnam, Privateer; Capt. Beesom of the Tomohawk and Capt. Burnham of the Guerriere.      The soldiers who have arrived are part of the 40th Regiment taken at Eastport.      We have conversed with a great number of the officers and men who have arrived in the above cartels. The conduct of the British toward our prisoners is represented by all as inhumane, tyrannical and ungenerous in the extreme; officers of the army and navy, soldiers and seamen, all unite in uttering the most bitter complaints. Indeed, it will appear, that the British had determined to destroy by cruelty those high minded men that the chance of war had thrown into their hands and whom they could not subdue in battle.      The tyrannical and inhumanity of Cusher, the agent at Halifax, are execrated in the strongest terms. The inattention to the sick is spoken of with indignation, and from the 1st of October to the 1st of February, 100 Americans are stated to have died in the hospital, a great part of them for proper want of attention. A great variety of facts, which prove the infamous conduct of our late enemy towards their unfortunate captives, we have from the mouths of gentlemen of honor, officers of the army and navy, and others whose veracity cannot be called in question.      The following account is given as a specimen, and by no means the most aggravated one among those with which we have been furnished, of their conduct towards our brave countrymen.      Just at the commencement of the Battle of Chippewa, a party of about an equal number of volunteers and Indians, say about 150 of each, were detached from the American Army to drive back a number of British Indians who had been firing on our picket guard. This brought on that famous battle. The British Indians retreated about half a mile through a wood, when they were reinforced by two light companies of British regulars and some Canadian militia, before which the American party was obliged to retreat. A small party consisting only of seven viz; Lt. Col. Bull, Major Galloway, Capt. White, and four privates, were returning to the American camp, when they were suddenly surprised by a party of about 25 British Indians, who rushed forward and seized every one of them, and immediately stripped them of everything, but their pantaloons and shirt. These gentlemen were completely in uniform, and Major G. and Capt. W., had each 240 dollars in their pockets. After marching about half a mile through this wood towards the British lines, one of the Indians stepped behind Col. Bull, and without giving him any warning, suddenly lifted up his rifle and shot him just below his shoulder blade, the ball passing through his body. He fell forward, but turned on his back, and holding out his hand exclaimed to Major G., “O help me up!” Major G. was in the act of lifting him up, when two Indians caught hold of his hand, and twitched him across the Colonel many times in order to make him trample him to death. While Major G. was straddled across him, another Indian struck the Colonel with a tomahawk on the head, which split it down as far as the chin, and immediately scalped him. They marched a few yards further when the Indians shot two of the privates, and taking the bloody scalp of one, they rubbed it over the face of another, and in this situation they were marched to Riall’s camp.      Captain White’s treatment was different. When he came to the bridge, just as the British rear guard were crossing, on their retreat, the British soldiers cried, “what have you got there, a damned Yankee!” The Indians said, “Yes,” “Well then damn him, run him well!.” And they ran him nearly a mile as hard as he could go, pushing him all the way. He passed through the British camp, where the savages were encouraged in their cruelty by the same language. He came to the edge of a wood, and being exhausted he sat down. The Indians gathered round and he apprehending they meant to kill him, said, “you will not murder me here I hope.” One of the Indians lifted up the butt end of his rifle, and brought it down with great violence, but retrained his hand when near his head. At this time two or three Canadian militia came up and saved his life.      Major Galloway was first brought forward to General Riall, and asked the General for his clothes only. “What the Indians got we can not obtain,” said he and wheeling on his foot, sat down near a door on a bench with his officers. He ordered his prisoners under guard separately, and they were kept without clothes or rations for four days, and slept on the ground without clothes or covering. At about 2 days after the action, the Americans attempted to cross at a new bridge they had constructed, in order to attack the enemy, when there was an understanding among the prisoners, that in case the Americans should succeed, they were to be left at the mercy of the savages and massacred. This they understood from a sergeant.      During the four days these gentlemen subsisted entirely upon the charity of the private soldiers and from their generosity they received an old watch coat and a forage cap a piece. In this naked and hungry condition they were drove to Fort George, a distance of 18 miles, on foot, and from thence by water, to York, Kingston, Montreal and Quebec. When arrived at Halifax, 18 or 20 of them were marched through the street, under a guard to Cusher’s office to receive their parole, and thence under guard like a set of felons to the quay; and embarked for Dartmouth, where they remained about three months and finally arrived at Salem the 23rd of March.      Major Samuel Galloway and Captain Samuel White, were both Pennsylvania drafted men, and volunteered to cross the ---(boez??) at the Battle of Chippewa. The Genius of Liberty, Uniontown, Fayette County 19 April 1815. posted on warof1812@rootsweb.com ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)