The men of the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Militia camped in tents during the fort's construction.
On October 1, U.S. General William Henry Harrison and several regiments numbering 3,000 men spent a night at the new fort, still under construction, while advancing to assist General Winchester at Fort Defiance. In mid-October, William Jennings and his regiment, now under Winchester's command, completed the fort.
It was named in honor of Colonel William Jennings. A major role of the fort was to serve as a supply center. Life at the fort on garrison duty was routine and monotonous.
One member of the regiment wrote: "We had the same unpleasant, uninteresting round of escorting convoys and provisions etc. in advance of us."
--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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