The fort’s main gate, located on the east side of the stockade, had not been closed by the garrison troops and was lodged open by a shifting bank of sand.
The fort’s assistant surgeon, Dr. Thomas G. Holmes, escaped from the burning fort and hid in a hole by the roots of a fallen tree.
In the months after the massacre, a FortMims survivor named Zachariah McGirth, was overjoyed to see is wife and 7 daughters, whom he believed at been killed, arrive at the Mobile wharf.
The Massacre at FortMims, in Baldwin County, took place one month after the Battle of Burnt Corn, which was fought some 50 miles northeast of Tensaw in the same county.
One such was FortMims which consisted of a stockade constructed around Samuel Mims’s home, a large one story frame structure with additional sheds, on land adjacent to Lake Tensaw.
He was drawn into the FortMims expedition but did everything possible to warn the garrison there of the intended attack and felt that he would have succeeded had the commander, Beasley, not been drunk.
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