Told from a soldier's point-of-view, Blood and Fury: America's Civil War features the war's most significant battles: Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettsyburg . Henry Baughman to protect a company of movers to Kentucky. shoud chuse to determine the matter your self. old the 15thof Sept. (Inst) am a native of Lancaster Pa. moved to Monroe Co Va. in 1776 [formed from Greenbrier County in 1799] (most likely 1778) during the war of the Revolution (cant tell in what year) I was employed by Burnside to drive packhorses loaded with provisions for McIntoshs campaign got my load at dry run. The 13th Virginia completed its organization during the summer of 1861 with men from Winchester and Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, and Hampshire counties, and one company from Maryland. That he was again drafted in the latter part of the summer or in the early part of the autumn of the same year 1781 from the County of Augusta and State aforesaid & was again command by Captain Thomas Hicklin and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Vance; that he was marched accross the Blue Ridge at Rockfish gap, thence on by a place called Bowling green, thence on by Pages Ware House and thence on to Little York where Lord Cornwallis with his Army were then stationed; that he was at the Seige of York [28 Sep 19 Oct 1781] and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and his army; that the British Army was marched out between two lines of the American Army to the place where they laid down their arms and then they returned through the same lines to their encampment in York Town, and on the next day they were marched out with their knapsacks on, and then took up their line of march under a strong escort or guard of the American Soldiers to the Barracks at Winchester Virginia; that he was one of the guard who escorted the prisoners to Winchester where he was discharged on the next day after his arrival having again served a tour of about three months as near as he now recollects. The fortress was constructed in 1778 under the direction of Lt. Col. Cambray-Digny, a French engineer, and named in honor of General Lachlan McIntosh. The company was assembled in Greenbrier County Virginia they were then marched to the fort Chessel then in Montgomery County Virginia (Fort Chiswell now in Wythe County). No Spam - just posts. During this battle at least 100 out of the nearly 350 American troops died due to heat strokes caused by the continuous heat of over 100 degree weather. Companies recruited men from Hampshire, Berkeley, Botetourt, Dunmore, and Prince Edward counties. Escrito en 27 febrero, 2023. On the other hand, they were fearful of being attacked on our frontiers by the British and Indians out of Detroit. That he had for his companions, his two Brothers Joseph and John Swope who were both older than himself, who are both dead and James Givin (Gwinn probably) who has also been dead for a number of years; that their manner of spying was for two to go together and to meet at some point designated. . Ligonier, a town and township about thirty miles southeast of Fort Pitt in Westmoreland County, Pa., was the site of a British fort between 1758 and 1765. September 14, 1778: redesignated the 10th Virginia: The German Regiment: Brig. And as for Crawford, he would be burned at the stake in 1782. He was with the 13th VA. SUBMITTER INFO: 1862. Left Valley Forge with 400 men assigned and 218 fit for duty. February 26. (James) Graham of danger, which went unheeded, resulting in tragedy: He has heard him [George Dixon] long since relate the circumstance of King Cornstalk being kiled at Point Pleasant in virginia and his expedition to Kentucky with an Express. Interrogatory 1. The unit was organized on 12 February 1777 at Fort Pitt in present-day western Pennsylvania to consist of nine companies of troops from the far-western Virginia counties (now parts of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania). Thomas Jefferson, the Governor of Virginia, wrote to William Campbell (who had been placed as commander of the three joint county militias in that area) on July 3, 1780, to change his plans from going on an expedition, to instead protect the Lead Mines at Fort Chiswell, as they were a higher priority. Lieutenant Colonel Walker was promoted to colonel . We marched from Greenbrier County in the said State under the command of Captain T. Wright and Colonel J Henderson with about 30 men to Burnsides on the Frontier of said County of Greenbrier in said state where we were stationed for protecting the frontier settlements. Servt, W. Russell Colo. Commr Genl Muhlenbergs Brigade. He served to the best of his recollection under this draft three months. That he was marched accross the Blue Ridge of Mountains at Rockfish gap, thence directly to the City of Richmond, thence down the James River to Sandy Point where he with the company to which he belonged crossed the River and thence to Camp Carson an encampment in what was called the dismal Swamp near a place called Portsmouth in the State of Virginia, where he was stationed the greater part of the winter, and from thence he was marched with the Army in the spring to Murdoughs Mills [possibly Murdocks Mill] still nearer to Portsmouth where he remained untill the 9thof April 1781 when he was discharged having served a tour of three months; that during said three months Tour of service he was in one engagement or skirmish under the command of the aforesaid officers at or in sight of Portsmouth; that Captain Cunningham from Rockbridge County, Virginia was wounded in the groin; that the Captain received his wound a few paces in his front there was also one soldier wounded in the leg & was placed on a carriage and bourn off the field or ground of the engagement. description ends , 10:22526, 247, 253, 260; Russells undated letter to Congress is in DNA:PCC, item 78). History Organized from Augusta, Amherst, Caroline, Culpeper, Cumberland, Fairfax, Fauquier, Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and King George Counties. The 10th Virginia Regiment of the Virginia Line was initially raised on December 28, 1775 in western Virginia for service with the Continental Army. The unit was organized on 12 February 1777 at Fort Pitt in present-day western Pennsylvania to consist of nine companies of troops from the far-western Virginia counties (now parts of West Virginia and western Pennsylvania). This scouting party was under the command of Lieut. 1778, having lost his entire right forearm due to an injury in the military service. Colonel Hill was promoted to brigadier general. I am with due respect, May it please your Excellency your Most Obed. public. The circumstance of Gilmore being kild exasperated and enraged the Millitia to such a hight, that they fiered upon and kild four friendly Indians that had been several days in the fort (Murder of Chief Cornstalk on 10 Nov 1777). But, it was too late. The official records corroborate his recollection: It was noted in the Virginia Militia records for the County of Greenbrier, that in 1780, Captain Thomas Wright raised a company, to go against the Indians at Detroit. On motion of Col. T. N. Dawkioa, Col. Wm. After the Revolution, the fort was the home of the First American Regiment, the oldest active unit in the United States Army. Ans. That sometime in the year 1774 he volunteered as a Private Militia man under Captain Benjamin Harriss [Benjamin Harris?] July 23. This is a list of British units which took part in the American Revolutionary Wa Arbuckles was built in 1774, and was a well-constructed military fort, with a stockade. This article about a specific military unit of the American Civil War is a stub. I was living on Wolf Creek when I was called into service and remained there until about the year 1790 when I moved to where I now live. His expedition was one of several in Western Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. At the time, and unknown to Hull, only 100 men of the 41st Regiment, along with 300 militiamen and 150 Indians, defended Fort Malden. The competing officers would engage in a power struggle in a letter writing campaign against one another to Gen. Washington. The 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in central and western Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Also competing for power in the region was Col. William Crawford, who commanded various militia units around Fort Pitt at this time. That he entered the service of the United States about the first of March in the year 1778 as a drafted militia man in Captain Thomas Wrights Company of the County of Greenbrier State of Virginia to serve a tower [tour] of three months which tower he served, some few days after he joined the said Wrights Company the said company marched to New River in the State aforesaid where his Company was attached to Colonel James Hendersons Regiment. This is one of the new ones I discovered. I shoud have sent the whole of them But at the time of Capt. Entered Valley Forge with 175 men assigned, 69 fit for duty. That as early as the 1stday of May in the year 1779 he again commenced his Services in Burnsides Fort and continued in service until the 1stof November following that he thinks it was in this year a party of Indians came into the settlement and Murdered William Bradshaws Wife the circumstances are these Bradshaw had remained at home with his Family and two of the Spys returning to Cooks Fort [on Indian Creek just below Greenville] called at his Cabbin to rest and informed him. The fort may have had either two or four iron cannon (Wikipedia). preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources, relating to the history of Companies recruited men from Yohogania County; Monongalia County and West Augusta District, now Ohio County. Militia Publisher Richmond, D. Bottom, superintendent of public printing Collection library_of_congress; americana Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation Prussian, or Polish-into their regiment. Below is Georges own application narrative, which is pretty interesting. By the inclosed Return Your Excellency will be made Acquainted with the strength of the Garrison at this place.1 Genl Hand ordered me to send the Deserters from the Different Corps at Camp down by Capt. The American Heroes Channel announces its new Blood and Fury: America's Civil War TV show will premiere Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 10:00pm ET/PT.The series delves into one of the bloodiest chapters in American history. James O'Hara's Company of Regulars, was a messenger for General Irvine; he later served as a Captain in the Allegheny County Militia and was a noted scout and Indian fighter with Samuel Brady[1]. That about the first of February 1781 he was drafted for six month in Captain Wm Hamiltons Company to serve against to Indians and on the 14thof February he marched and rendezvoused on the 15that Burnsides [Fort Burnside], near where Union now stands in the County of Monroe Virginia he then was marched to Fort Chisel in the County of Montgomery [Fort Chiswell now in Wythe County VA] where he was attached to the company of Captain John Henderson John Woods was Lieutenant Andrew Hamilton Magor where they remained for some cause he never new what they guarded a few Tories there and was sometimes told that they was to be marched against some Tories that was stationed up the New River at one time it was said that they was to be attacked by the Tories and they went in camp prepared Bullets &c for the engagement but no engagement took place that the campaign was so irregularly conducted that he left them and returned home after serving only five months. Was two years & nine months in actual service I substituted as before stated for nine months. Summary [ edit] The 13th Virginia Regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 by the Continental Congress for service with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Some outfit their troops at personal Lithuanian. Washington and his western officers wanted to attack Detroit. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. That he was afterwards drafted in the month of January 1781 into service as a soldier of the Revolution from the County of Augusta and marched in a company commanded by Captain Thomas Hicklin Lieutenant Joseph Gwin and Ensign Thomas Wright and was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Sampson Mathews; [T]hat he lived at the time he was drafted in the County of Augusta and State of Virginia. We shall continue to use all means to have the Militia ready as speedily as Possible, shoud you think it improper to grant our request. He served more than six months or perhaps seven. We were in actual service this tour 30 days, was discharged and returned to my former residence in Greenbrier Virginia. The fort was under siege by 200 Indians making it the second largest battle against the Indians within the bounds of present day West Virginia the first being the Battle of Point Pleasant. Uniforms of the American Revolution. The regiment saw action in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Monmouth. Previous Engagements: Northern New Jersey, Defense of Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Monmouth. The 13th Virginia Regiment was a United States infantry regiment during the American Revolutionary War. Where and in what year were you born. He was confronted with the same issues that previous generals had faced before him: shortages of supplies, food, and men. Reached home the last of August in Company with twenty-eight others who had been in the same service. I was attached to Capt Uriah Springers company Col John Gibson Regt. The reason for this was that some of the mountain-folk of Montgomery County were organizing for a takeover of the Lead Mines at Fort Chiswell. Gibson served as lieutenant colonel of the 13th Virginia Regiment from November 1776 to October 1777, when he became colonel of the 6th Virginia. he says the News of Burgoynes Surrender had not Reached there.4, Lt Cane was ordered down the Country to Bring up the Cloathing for the Remainder of the 13th Virga Regt now here, But as the Cloathing is not Yet Arrived, and the men Being in the most distressed Condition, I have now sent Capt. Eckenrode, H. J. Virginia soldiers of the American Revolution. The first commander of the Twenty-first was E. L. Dudley, of Lexington, who died February 20, 1862. Further complicating matters was the fact that Virginia unilaterally sent George Rogers Clark into the western territory in order to conquer for Virginia the entire Illinois Country. history museum that tells the 300+ year story of how celebrates Iowa's rich heritage, including its natural. [fn p. 14: on May 11, 1848 in Harrison County Indiana, Mary Catherine Trout, 72, filed for a widow's pension under the 1848 act stating that she is the widow of Anthony D. Trout, a pensioner at the rate of $80 per annum for his services in the revolution.] Service started: Unit (s): Service ended: James O'Neall was born in 1738, the son of Hugh and Anne (Cox) O'Neall. I procured a substitute by the name of Joshua Boucher to whom I paid $50 to take my place for three months which he done. The National Historical Publications and That in the Spring of 1778 on the first of May he Valenteered and Served under Capt William Hamilton untill the first of Sept in the same year that in this year he was stationed in Hamiltons Garrison which was situated on Muddy creek (a tributary stream of Greenbrier river) about five miles higher up on said creek than the Fort that he had served in the year previous that he remained in Hamiltons Fort untill the night of the 28 of May when Leonard Cooper and a nother Spy came and informed the Garrison that Donlyes Fort (Donnallys Fort) (which was about 12 miles distance from Hamiltons Fort) was attacked by about two Hundred Indians and Capt Hamilton supposeing that his Fort was not strong enough to withstand and attack from such a force of Indians ordered his men to march that night to Keeny Fort [Fort Keeney] which was situated five miles below on Muddy Creek where he remained with a regulary embodied corps untill the time above named that is untill the 1st September 1778. I was born on Wolf Creek near Greenbrier River then called West Augusta now Monroe County in the year 1753 and I have heard it frequent said that I was the first white child ever born in what is now the limits of Monroe County. Field officers at Valley Forge were Colonel William Russell, Colonel George Gibson, Lt. Captain James Neal of the 13th Virginia [later the 9th Va]. Served under Generals Green, Muhlenburg, Col. Russell. Fought at White Plains, Brandywine and Germantown. . Clark did so, in an epic way, and now was positioned within striking distance of the British fort at Detroit. Hill Monument completed in 1843 commemorating the first battle, or at least one of the first battles, of the American Revolutionary War? Discharged here in August, 1780, his term of service calling for twelve months. On December 27, 1776 it was assigned to the Southern Department, then under the command of General . In the spring of 1782 he was again drafted under Captain Archibald Woods. Samuel Haring's Co. Capt. [23 March 1820]. The acquisition of Texas involved us in the Mexican War. the United States, and research and development projects to bring historical records to the I mention this real fact, the better to enable your Excellency to form a judgment for the disposal of the Regiment. This undoubtedly contained whiskey and flour. While at Fort Pitt he was sent out on a campaign under the command of Col Gibson and Crawford. The circumstances that brought a second tour of service, were as follows (towit) in the fall of the year 1780 I engaged in the company of Capt. Enter your email address to get automatic notification of new posts to this blog. from Fort to Fort and give the alarm so that preparations might be made for defensive operations by the people that were forted and that those who had ventured out to work their corn might betake themselves to the Fort before the Indians would attack them. And to spare them all at this time, GW wrote Gates, is impossible. On 6 Mar., Congress referred GWs letter of 27 Feb. to the Board of War, and it did the same on 13 Mar. . 13th Virginia Regiment Frontier, Native Americans, Strategy, The War Years (1775-1783) May 11, 2021 May 12, 2021. That would have been the 1778 trip to Kentucky. The regiment or Battallion commanded by major Andrew Hamilton in Greenbrier County, State of Virginia, marched from thence to Fort Chisell (Fort Chiswell in present Wythe County VA). Fourth Connecticut Regiment of Infantry Continental Line. The regiment was formally authorized as a unit of the Continental Army on September 16, 1776. The headquarters of the western part of the Continental Army was Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That they marched on to Fort Chisel (Chiswell) where they met with Major Quirk or Kirk a Continental Officer who assumed the command over Major (Andrew) Hamilton, and thence they marched on to Kentucky to Colonel Logans Station where they remained until the three months draft expired when they were informed that the object of the draft was to go to Detroit (with George Rogers Clark) and a number of the men becoming dissatisfied deserted the next day but he remained and went on to Baughmans Station and remained until most of the men left the Station when he was permitted to return home having served five months in said tour; that he never received any pay for said Services when acting as a Spy and but $6 for his services while drafted. Junior or the II had served in the Revolutionary War as a private soldier in Captain Garland Kurnley`s Company of Albemarle Barracks Guards under Colonel Francis Taylor`s, 9th Virginia Regiment. part of the State of Ohio. Both Pennsylvania and Virginia were claiming to own Pittsburgh. Be it known that on the 15thday of September AD 1834 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county, George Dixon, who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that that he entered the service of the United States, in the war of the Revolution at the station of Burnsides, in the Co of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia with his Brother Peter Dixon who has this day in open Court sworn and subscribed a declaration in order to obtain a pension, that I served with him in the same Company (To wit) the Company of Captain Henderson Lt John Woods commanded by Major Andrew Hamilton until we came to Fort Chissel when we was seperated and I was sent to Kentucky on an express (as will more fully be illusterated by reference to my declaration now on file in the War Office, and I believe verily He the said Peter Dixon served out the tour of six months for which he was drafted and further this deponant saith that he has heard his Brother Peter Dixon, relate that, he vollenteered at Whitleys Station in Kentucky under Col Logan and that in consequence of the Indians, having murdered a part of the company of imegrants, that were miving to Kentucky (of which Peter Dixon was one) Col Logan raised as many troops as could be raised and pursued the Indians to their Towns for the purpose of redress.
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