In a message dated 8/11/99 1:22:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jan Garland writes: > Does anyone know where I could find the records of people and events at > Ft. Stephens and Ft. Stoddart, in what is now AL, but was the MS Terr. > @1800? If my memory serves correctly, these two forts, along with Fort Mims, were pivotal in the Creek War (a theater of the War of 1812) and the events immediately prior. "Records" as strictly defined are probably divided among the Mississippi Department of Archives in Jackson, the Alabama Department of Archives in Montgomery, and the National Archives in Washington. If you know the names of individual soldiers or militiamen involved, the pension files in the National Archives are especially helpful for any veterans who survived (as did my GGGgrandfather) into the 1850s. But, in order to gain basic orientation, one should probably go first to general historical works. Two I recommend are "The Old Southwest, 1795-1830," by Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice, and "Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands," by Frank L. Owsley, Jr. (If you can't find these books in your local library, you might want to visit <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon.com</A> or another on-line seller and check their prices.) If you want more info than these two books provide, you can follow up on some of the many, many bibliographic references therein. Other general sources include the standard histories of Alabama, the biographies of Andrew Jackson, the collected papers of Andrew Jackson (published in a set of about ten volumes), and the various histories -- in addition to Owsley's book -- of the War of 1812 and/or the Creek War. Rgds, Jim Brown ([email protected])