Battle of North Point

The above engraving is a copy of a drawing belonging to the Maryland Historical Society, made by an eye-witness after the Battle of North Point, as the conflict described in the text is called. The following are the names and incidents referred to by numerals:

1. General Stricker.
2. Major G. P. Stevenson, aid.
3. Major James Calhoun.
4. Major William B. Barney.
5. Leonard Fraleigh, brigade major.
6. Robert Goodloe Harper.
7. John Buck, trumpeter.
8. Colonel James Biays.
9. Major William Jackson.
10. Archibald Kerr, paymaster.
11. Adjutant Lemuel Taylor.
12. Sergeant Major James Blair.
13. Captain James Sterett's Hussars.
14. Captain Bouldin and Lieutenant Kell's troop.
15. Captain Horton's troop.
16. Captain Hannah's troop.
17. Colonel Joseph Sterett's Fifth Regiment.
18. Colonel Kennedy Long's Twenty-seventh Regiment.
19. Colonel Benjamin Fowler, Thirty-ninth Regiment.
20. Colonel Amey and Major Young, Fifty-first Regiment.
21. Riflemen. Lieutenant G. Andreas, mortally wounded.
22. Colonel R. K. Heath.
23. Major Standish Barry.
24. Adjutant James Chester.
25. Montgomery's Artillery.
26. Major Samuel Moore.
27. Adjutant General James Lowrey Donaldson, mortally wounded.
28. Major Joseph Robinson.
29. Adjutant Thomas Baltzell.
30. Major Steiger.
31. Lieutenant Stiles, with two pieces of artillery.
32. Major Henwick.
33. Meadow and Haystack.
34. House fired by Captain Sadler's company of Yagers.
35. Lieutenant John Reeve and James M`Culloch, wounded.
36. Captain Spangler's company of Volunteers from York, Pennsylvania.
37. Captain Quantrill's company of Volunteers from Hagerstown.
38 and 39. Captains Baer and Metzar's companies from Hanover, Pennsylvania.
40. Head of Bear Creek.
41. British Flankers.
42. British, commanded by Brooke, wheeling into line.

(Above graphics and description from Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812.)

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