From "Sergeant Patyrick Gass" by SGM Teddy L. Bridgman.
When the War of 1812 broke out, Patrick Gass was in the Army and stationed at Fort Kaskaskia in the Illinois Territory working as a commissary assistant. From the start of the war and through 1813, he remained on the Illinois frontier to hold the Indians in check in that area.
But in the spring of 1814, Gass and his men were ordered to the Niagara Frontier to fight the British. They didn't arrive until July and were too late to participate in the Battle of Chippewa. However, they did not miss the next battle, which was Lundy's Lane.
Here Gass got to hear and see roar of the "Big Guns" in action.
--Brock-Perry
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