"Ga-Da-Ya-Deh": A Place of Misery — Revised & Expanded Edition
Long before the settlers came, the Senecas called the site of present-day Williamsville Ga-da-ya-deh — a place of misery. Whether they foresaw what was coming or were remembering something already past, the name proved apt. Between 1812 and 1815 there was misery enough: from the execution of deserters on the parade ground, on the site of present-day Saints Peter and Paul's church, to the suffering in a general hospital that accommodated three to four hundred sick and a somewhat larger number of wounded in what is now the Lehn Springs development.
Only two locations connected with the army's encampment are known with certainty: the War of 1812 Cemetery and the Evans House. On the barracks and the hospital, opinion has diverged so widely for so long that this book sets out the whole of the evidence the author has been able to gather from any source, and the conclusions he draws from it.
This is not an academic paper. It is a first-person account of a long search — what was looked for, what was found, and what the documents will and will not support.