[440] Drennan Papers, Kingsbury to Nicoll, February 15, 1811.
[441] Kingsbury Papers, Heald to Kingsbury, May 31, 1810; Kingsbury to Heald, June 11, 1810.
[442] Kingsbury Papers, letter of Cooper to Kingsbury cited in note 433.
[443] Ibid., Heald to Kingsbury, May 31, 1810.
[444] Drennan Papers, Kingsbury to Nicoll, February 15, 1811.
[445] "Notes of a Tour from Fort Wayne to Chicago, 1809," MS in Chicago Historical Society library.
The outcome of the quarrel was, on the whole, a triumph for Whistler's enemies. Rather than bring Whistler and Thompson to trial on the charges preferred against them, the War Department decided on a general scattering of the officers at Fort Dearborn. In April, 1810, Whistler was sent to Detroit, and Hamilton to Fort Belle Fontaine. Captain Rhea, whose company at Detroit was given to Whistler, was sent to Fort Wayne to relieve Captain Nathan Heald, who, in turn, succeeded Whistler at Fort Dearborn.[446] Thompson and Cooper remained at Fort Dearborn, but the latter's privilege to suttle was withdrawn by special order of the Secretary of War.[447] Jouett and Irwin, the Indian agent and the factor, remained at Fort Dearborn. The atmosphere was now thoroughly uncongenial to Cooper, who soon resigned from the army in disgust, being unwilling to remain in a service where one could be so easily injured in the opinion of the heads of the department.[448]
[446] Kingsbury Papers, Kingsbury to Irwin, June 11, 1810; Drennan Papers, Nicoll to Heald, April 11, 1810; Nicoll to Whistler, April 11, 1810; Nicoll to Kingsbury, April 11, 1810; Nicoll to Gansevoort, April 12, 1810.
[447] Drennan Papers, Nicoll to Whistler, March 30, 1810.
[448] Kingsbury Papers, letter of Cooper to Kingsbury cited in note 433.