Fort Hull (Macon County, Alabama)
Macon County · Alabama · Creek War
History & Significance
As part of a three-pronged U.S. campaign, Brigadier General John Floyd led Georgia militia and allied Creek warriors under William McIntosh westward from Fort Mitchell on January 17, 1814, with eleven hundred Georgia militia, six hundred allied Creeks, and cannons. Floyd's force marched westward along the Federal Road, planning to construct forts to protect their extended supply lines.
Captain Jett Thomas, an engineer officer and artillery commander, led the construction of Fort Hull, which was named for Commodore Isaac Hull. Fort Hull was constructed over four days; construction was slow due to rationing, and troops slowed their work in protest over lack of rations and entrenching tools, forcing Floyd to reinstate full rations prior to completion of the fort.
Milton left Fort Hull in March 1814 to construct Fort Decatur further to the west on the Tallapoosa River; after his departure, only a small number of South Carolina militia remained at Fort Hull, and their terms of service ended in July 1814 after which they returned home; the fort then fell under the command of a hospital steward and quartermaster sergeant. Fort Hull had no military association after 1815 and was soon abandoned; mail was received at a stop known as "Fort Hull" as early as 1818, but there was never a postmaster at the site; nearby the fort site was a church and school that were named Fort Hull Church and Fort Hull School; as late as 1952 a historical marker for the fort was located south of Tuskegee on U.S. Route 80, but no historical marker exists today; the original site of Fort Hull is unmarked and on private land.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hull
- https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/creek-war-of-1813-14/
- https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/battle-of-calabee-creek/
- https://digitalalabama.com/forts-of-alabama/