A Soldier's Wife at Fort Niagara, an 1860 engraving by T. Walker, depicting Betsy Doyle doing her heroic deed. Mr. Walker clearly used some artistic license, however. In this engraving, we see that Mrs. Doyle is not only fetching heated shot from a Hot Shot Furnace that did not yet exist at Fort Niagara ("During the [artillery] exchange, Betsy carried red-hot cannonballs from a fire to the 6-pound cannon..."), but that the gun to which one assumes she will be delivering this shot is right next to her, at ground level: In reality, the cannon to which she delivered her shot was mounted atop either the French Castle or mess hall, depending on whose account one favors.

Mrs. Doyle's efforts were actually much more strenuous than depicted here: She had to fetch a red-hot iron ball from a fire on the fort's grounds, then somehow carry it up a ladder to where the gun was...but one supposes that it would be difficult to encapsulate this in a single image.