It was Gratiot who assigned Robert E. Lee to engineer the Mississippi River at St. Louis. There had been a shift in the Mississippi River channel there which threatened to wipe out river traffic there. Lee engineered a series of jetties which controlled the flow.
After that, he had a lengthy dispute with the War Department over benefits. President Martin Van Buren dismissed him for failing to repay government funds entrusted to him.
Charles Gratiot died May 18, 1855, and his remains were interred at Section 13 of cavalry Cemetery in St. Louis.
The important Highway M-3 in Michigan, connecting Detroit and Port Huron is commonly called Gratiot Avenue.. Fort Gratiot in Michigan, which guards the mouth of the St. Clair River is named for him as well.
There are also towns named for him in Ohio and Michigan.
I Wonder If He's had a Book Written About Him? --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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