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Wabash, Indiana
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
On December 17-18, 1812, American troops under Lt. Col. John Campbell attacked Miami villages along the Mississinewa River near present-day Marion, destroying them before repelling a nighttime counterattack — the last battle fought on Indiana soil, and the last time the Miami Nation fought as a unified force. A memorial to the battle was dedicated near the river in downtown Marion in 2004, and the site hosts Mississinewa 1812, the largest War of 1812 reenactment in the country, every October. A small church and graveyard of 20-30 graves near the battlefield's general area has drawn its own separate reports — visitors describe groaning sounds from the woods, physical contact from something unseen, and unexplained marks appearing on tombstones between visits.
Battlefield site owned by the Mississinewa Battlefield Society, where Miami villages were attacked in 1812. It is open mostly for the annual Mississinewa 1812 event in early October; contact the society to visit at other times.
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