The Affair At King's Mountain

Source

Captain Cameron Of The Thirteenth Regiment In Tennessee

History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A ...,  By Samuel W. Scott, Samuel P Angel:

See his Wikitree profile here.

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections 

Daniel Bedinger, Revolutionary War POW

Project Gutenberg's American Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge:

To The Memory of my Grandfather, Lieutenant Daniel Bedinger, of Bedford, Virginia

 Daniel's father was born in Alsace, and he himself had been brought up in a family where German was the familiar language of the household. It seems that, in some way, probably by using his mother tongue, he had touched the heart of one of the Hessian guards.

In some way Daniel was conveyed to Philadelphia, where he completely collapsed, and was taken to one of the military hospitals.

Here, about the first of January, 1777, his devoted brother, George Michael Bedinger, found him. Major Bedinger's son, Dr. B. F. Bedinger, wrote an account of the meeting of these two brothers for Mrs. H. B. Lee, one of Daniel's daughters, which tells the rest of the story. He said:

"My father went to the hospital in search of his brother, but did not recognize him. On inquiry if there were any (that had been) prisoners there a feeble voice responded, from a little pile of straw and rags in a corner, 'Yes, Michael, there is one.'

"He placed his suffering and beloved charge in the chair...and carried him some miles into the country, where he found a friendly asylum for him in the house of some good Quakers. There he nursed him, and by the aid of the kind owners, who were farmers, gave him nourishing food, until he partially recovered strength.

After Daniel Bedinger returned home he had a relapse...however, recovered, and re-entered the service, where the first duty assigned him was that of acting as one of the guards over the prisoners near Winchester. He afterwards fought with Morgan in the southern campaigns, was in the battle of the Cowpens, and several other engagements, serving until the army was disbanded. He was a Knight of the Order of the Cincinnati.

Lieutenant Bedinger...died in 1818 at his home near Shepherdstown, of a malady which troubled him ever after his confinement as a prisoner in New York. He hated the British with a bitter hatred, which is not to be wondered at.

Daniel Bedinger's entry at Wikitree.

See a YouTube video of Bedinger's experiences by one of his descendants.

Political Villains

General Andrew Jackson Statue In New Orleans, Louisiana

[Andrew] Jackson *wrote to the Army quartermaster [William Berkeley Lewis]: ...is this the reward of a virtuous administration, to its patriotic sons, or is it done by a wicked monster, to satiate the vengeance, of a combination of hypocritical Political Villains, who would sacrifice the best blood of our Country, to satiate the spleen of a villain who their connections with in acts of wickedness they are afraid to offend...?  Jackson made it clear that one of the villains to whom he referred was Wilkinson. [Source: The Devils Backbone...]

*Transcription of Andrew Jackson's letter below:

Spanish Intrigue (Part 2)

Also See Spanish Intrigue (Part 1)

 It was a hundred years before historians dug the incriminating documents out, and by that time even the Judge Advocate General himself could not reach this slightly mercenary brigadier [General James Wilkinson]. The curious may go to the Archiva Historico-Nacional in Spain. And there, in Estado Legajo No. 3898 B*, they will find the whole treasonable scheme writ large. [Source: Daniel Boone by John Bakeless (1939)]


*Papers Bearing on James Wilkinson's Relations with Spain, 1787-1816

Via The Wilderness Trace Through Kentucky

Cumberland Gap Area

Henry Hamilton's Journal:

Dramatic And Significant

Clark At Vincennes

Henry Hamilton's Journal:


The most dramatic and significant event of the American Revolution in the West was the capture of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton of Detroit by tough young George Rogers Clark at Vincennes on February 24th, 1779.

Settled With His Bride At Detroit

Sixty years in a school-room: ...,  By Julia Ann Tevis, John Tevis:

Ann's Memoirs

The back story to the memoirs:

In 1816, Lieutenant Richard C. Smyth, formerly of the United States army [23rd Infantry], was executed at Philadelphia for the murder of Captain John Carson, of the merchant service. This execution was memorable because it was the first one that had occurred in the city since the close of the preceding century. The cause was wild passion and infatuation which the criminal felt towards a wicked and misguided woman, the wife of Carson.

. Memoirs of Ann Carson:

Mrs. Ann Carson, nee Baker, was born in 1785, to Thomas Baker and Jane McCutcheon.

War Correspondent Junius Henri Brown

Four years in Secessia, by Junius Henri Browne:

Fort Sumter mentioned (it was fired upon on April 12, 1861).