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PERSONAL SKETCHES.
The next duty of young Sergeant Davenport was to assist in placing the city of New Orleans in a state of security against the "Burr Expedition," then expected. The city was declared under martial law, and Sergeant Davenport was assigned to duty as "orderly" to General Wilkinson. After the arrest of Aaron Burr and his associate conspirators, the troops were sent to Natchez and other places. Sergeant Davenport was sent north on a recruiting expedition and in that service was stationed at Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Winchester, Virginia, until the spring of 1810, when he was sent west to join his regiment. From this time forward his military life was on the western frontier among the Indian tribes, and against the British during the War of 1812.
Young Davenport's first experience in active service against the Indians was in General Howard's expedition to Peoria Lake, on the Illinois River, in l812. After important service in this expedition he returned to Fort Bellefontaine, where he remained until the spring of 1814, when his regiment was ordered to join General Brown on the Canada line. The troops shipped in keel-boats down the Mississippi and up the Ohio to Pittsburgh. Thence by forced marches they went to the town of Erie, and by the lake to Fort Erie. The next march was to Lundy's Lane, where they arrived in time to take part in the battle. During the siege of Fort Erie Davenport was placed on guard duty, and was one of the attacking party which drove the British from their works. After the siege he returned with the regiment to Pittsburgh, and thence again by boats to Bellefontaine. Then, his term of service having
