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Colonel William Whistler Carolyn Thomas Foreman 313 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 18, No. 4 December, 1940 Colonel William Whistler Carolyn Thomas Foreman 313 Missionary Work of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America in Oklahoma Richard H. Harper 328 Governor Daughtery (Winchester) Colbert John Bartlett Meserve 348 Official Seals of the Five Civilized Tribes Muriel H. Wright 357 Notes and Documents 371 Book Reviews 395 Necrology 402 Minutes of the Regular Quarterly Board Meeting 408 Minutes of a Called Board Meeting 411 COLONEL WILLIAM WHISTLER By Carolyn Thomas Foreman Page 313 A distinguished name in the annals of the United States Army is Whistler and it is of particular interest in Oklahoma where Colonel William Whistler served as commandant of Fort Gibson at four different periods. His father, John Whistler, born in Ulster, Ireland about 1756; served in the British Army under Burgoyne and was made a prisoner with him at the Battle of Saratoga, October 17, 1777. Soon after Whistler's return to England he met and fell in love with Miss Ann Bishop, daughter of Sir Edward Bishop. After their marriage they removed to America, settled at Hagerstown, Maryland and shortly afterwards John became a lieutenant adjutant in the levies of 1791. He was wounded in an Indian campaign that year; in 1792 he became an ensign in the First Infantry and on July 1, 1797, he received his captaincy. In the summer of 1803, Captain Whistler was ordered from Detroit with his company of the First Infantry to the head-waters of Lake Michigan where he built Fort Dearborn, finishing it before the end of the year. He was brevetted major July 10, 1812; honorably discharged June 15, 1815 after which he was appointed military storekeeper of ordnance at Newport, Kentucky in 1817 and later at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he remained until his death September 3, 1829.1 While John and Ann Bishop Whistler were living at Hagerstown, Maryland, their son William was born in 1780, and he was appointed a second lieutenant in the United States Army June 8, 1801; as a first lieutenant he participated in the battle of Maguaga, Michigan, August 9, 1812. Before the battle Lieut. Col. James Miller declared that any man who left the ranks or fell back, without orders, should be put to death instantly. The battle field was fourteen miles from Detroit, in the oak woods on the bank of the 1Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, New York, 1889, vol. VI, p. 463. Page 314 Detroit; the American troops received a frightful volley from ambush by British and Indian soldiers under Major Muir and Tecumseh. When the battle went against them the British and Canadians fled leaving Tecumseh and his men to bear the brunt of the fight. They were routed and the Americans gained a complete victory.2 At Detroit, Michigan, on August 16, Lieutenant Whistler was taken prisoner;3 and the last day of 1812 he became a captain. He was stationed at Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1817 to 1819 and in 1820 he was temporarily in command. Whistler married Miss Julia Fearson of Detroit; she was of Scotch and French descent and is spoken of by a friend as a "very warm-hearted and indulgent mother, to the children of the household." Several of their children were born at Fort Howard.4 Captain Whistler then of the Third Infantry, wrote Colonel Boyer, Indian agent from Fort Howard, January 13, 1820, that while he was passing a village of the Winnebago Indians on August 9, 1819, his boat was fired upon at the entrance of Winnebago Lake by a party of the Indians assembled on the shore. Captain Whistler directed his interpreter to inquire the cause of this attack upon the American flag which was conspicuously displayed from a staff at the stern of his batteaux. The Indians gave the officer to understand that they commanded the passage, and required all boats to stop and report to them. Whistler was accompanied by four or five soldiers and three of his children but the shot passed through the awning of the boat without harm to them.5 2Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History, New York, 1902, vol. VI, pp. 73, 74. 3Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, 1903, vol. II, p. 41. 4One writer speaks of Whistler's large family of daughters and two sons. One son, Joseph Nelson Garland Whistler, was born at Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 19, 1822. He was graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1846 and participated in the War with Mexico and the Civil War. In both of those wars he was brevetted for gallant and meritorious conduct and in the latter he held the rank of brigadier general. He died April 20, 1898, aged 77 years. Caroline Whistler became Mrs. Bloodgood of Milwaukee and Gwendoline was Mrs. Robert Kinzie of Chicago (Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XX, p. 92; ibid., vol. XIV, p. 35; vol. XV, pp. 218-19, 243; ibid., vol. VIII, p. 303; Heitman, op. cit., vol. I, p. 1026; Appletons' Cyclopaedla of American Biography, vol. VI, p. 436). 5Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XX, pp. 139, 142-3; vol. VII, p. 279. Page 315 Whistler was brevetted major December 31, 1822, for ten years' faithful service in one grade. Two interesting items concerning Major Whistler are recounted in the Wisconsin Historical Collection: George Boyd, U. S. Indian agent, wrote Gov. Lewis Cass, August 22, 1824, that "...Major Whistler, has also been held to bail for suffering these Indians to be flogged at my request." Colonel Ebenezer Childs, of La Crosse, in his "Recollections of Wisconsin since 1820," related: "We were mustered into Colonel Whistler's detachment at Little Butte des Mort.6 I had enlisted a young woman as a washer-woman, but Colonel Whistler would not permit it, so I had to discharge my female warrior very much against my will."7 Major Whistler was again at Green Bay in 1826; he remained there for two years as commandant before being ordered to Fort Niagara whence he was sent to regarrison Fort Dearborn in 1832. At Mackinac, in July, 1834, Whistler received news of his promotion to a lieutenant colonelcy and his assignment to the Seventh Infantry.8 Red Bird, a Winnebago war chief,9 had been friendly with the settlers at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, until two Winnebago had been arrested for the murder of a family of maple-sugar makers; a report reached the chief that the Indians had been turned over to the Chippewa by military authorities at Fort Snelling and that they were clubbed to death while running the gauntlet. Not waiting to learn that this was untrue, Red Bird, with two companions, went to the home of Registre Gagnier and after being hospitably entertained by him the Indians shot him and his hired man. After the murder Red Bird and his Indians fled; Major Whistler, in command at Fort Howard (Green Bay), was ordered by General Atkinson to take all forces at his disposal and go up to the Fox River to the portage to await his arrival. A company of Oneida and Stockbridge Indians, accompanied Whistler's force 6Butte des Morts is in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, on the left bank of Fox River about seven miles Northwest of Oshkosh. 7Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XX, p. 348; ibid., vol. IV, p. 172. 8Ibid., vol. XIV, p. 409; ibid., vol. XX, p. 92. 9One authority states he received this name because he wore a red coat and claimed to be English, another historian related that it was because he wore on his shoulders, "to supply the place of an epaulette," preserved red birds. Page 316 and they encamped on the bluff opposite the portage where Fort Winnebago was subsequently built. When the troops prepared to attack the Winnebagoes, Red Bird and his men gave themselves up. The chief appeared on a mettlesome horse with a white flag in his hand; he wore his Yancton uniform of unsoiled skins. The Indian approached Major Whistler and facing him, said: "I am ready." "I do not wish to be put in irons." "Let me be free." The Indians were tried at Prairie du Chien, convicted but sentence was deferred. Red Bird was remanded to prison to await sentence but died February 16, 1828, and his accomplices were pardoned by President Adams.10 Whistler was made a lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Infantry, July 21, 1834. This regiment had been for years stationed at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and when he and his family arrived there the stockade was so crowded that quarters outside the garrison were assigned to him in a three-room log house east of the post. The garrison was a gay place for young ladies as many officers recently graduated from West Point were assigned there and romances flourished between them and relatives of other officers and the attractive Cherokee girls who visited the post. Colonel Whistler had a young daughter named Mary Ann and her marriage to Lieut. Gabriel René Paul of her father's regiment, was an important social affair. The bridegroom, a native of Missouri, had been graduated from West Point the year before and ordered directly to Fort Gibson. A sister of Colonel Whistler, the wife of Capt. Daniel Curtis, met a tragic fate at Fort Mackinaw. She was sitting sewing near a window in their quarters during a storm and was struck by lightning; she left four little children, one of whom, her daughter Irene, became the second wife of Gen. Daniel H. Rucker and the mother-in-law of Gen.
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