He Came Of A Valiant Race

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...leaving Fort Peyton on the 7th inst., and proceeding south....

Fort Peyton (Florida) LOC 1839 Map

...a large Seminole villae, near Mosquito Inlet, was reached, and, after surrounding it, at dawn of day on the 10th the dragoons, under McNeil and May, charged the enemy... .  Our loss was the gallant McNeil, who received a mortal wound while leading his men.  This officer--one of the youngest in service--was deeply regretted, both on account of personal and professional worth; he came of a valiant race--son of General John McNeil, late of the army, and grandson of General Benjamin Pierce,* of New Hampshire, a hero of the Revolution.

*Father of McNeil's mother, Elizabeth Andrews Pierce McNeil, and President Franklin Pierce

 

Study Of Tropical Diseases

Used a Chickamauga map (second day)
"   " (first day)
Used Surgeon Eugene Wasdin

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Chain Of Destiny

 Chain Of Destiny by Nigel Tranter. is a story focused on King James Stewart IV of Scotland.

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Flodden Field (Source)

The King died in the Battle of Flodden.

The Kentucky Land Grants

The Kentucky Land Grants

 With literally thousands of rugged people pushing their domestic caravans over the Wilderness Trail into Kentucky in search of lands for homesteads or for speculation, the struggle for possession became intense. The richest and best situated land, topographically, was surveyed and entered upon again and again. While squatters, strong of mind and purpose, frequently held some land without title; others like Daniel Boone failed to meet certain legal requirements and though undoubtedly rightfully entitled to the land lost it because of technicalities. 

Up to 1775 land in Kentucky had been surveyed principally for veterans of the French and Indian War in accordance with the laws of Virginia. At this time Henderson began his broad system of surveys in central Kentucky. He was beset at every turn by homesteading pioneers who, without surveys or purchase title, stubbornly held to the land they had settled upon and improved. To meet this distant and difficult situation, the Colony of Virginia issued a resolution in favor of these pioneers. This was enacted into a law shortly thereafter which declared that all who were possessed of land in Kentucky prior to June, 1776, should be allowed 400 acres of homestead.

Marching In The Seminole Wars

 Marching from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; near Shawneetown, Illinois; Kentucky, Tennessee; Georgia and Florida:

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Sarah B. Campbell's Parents

Campbell etc families:

Agent Stickney, Captain Rhea And Antoine Bondy

Note: Antoine, the son of Joseph Duarte Bondy and Marie Josette Gamelin and also my daughter's 6th great grand uncle.

From the Valley of the upper Maumee River, with historical account of Allen County and the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana (also here):

The agent was thankful for the information, but was doubtful whether to credit or reject it, as a mistake in a matter of so much importance, either way, would prove ruinous to his character and cause his disgraceful ejection from the important office which he held. He had been but three months in office or in the country and was acquainted with but few persons.

The character of Bondie was not known to him, and the nature of his communication was such as to require great secrecy, and if true, immediate preparation for the defense of the fort. [Benjamin Franklin] Stickney sent a note to Capt. [James] Rhea, the commanding officer of the garrison, desiring a meeting with him in the open esplanade of the fort, where there could be no one to overhear what might be said.

In weighing and comparing chances and consequences, he determined that it was better that he should be ruined in his reputation, and the government suffer all sacrifices consequent upon the falsity of the report, than that they should both suffer if it proved true. He, therefore, sent a second time to Capt. Rhea, and declared his intention to make the report and give it his sanction. He informed him that he had just received a dispatch from Gov. Harrison, from Vincennes, saying that he was going to Cincinnati, where he must be addressed, if necessary, and that he should send an express to him, directed to that city, and another to Captain Taylor, at Fort Harrison. 

Reconstruction Of Fort Wayne

When nearly ready to dispatch his messenger, Capt. Rhea sent a note to him requesting that he would delay his express to Cincinnati, until he could write a letter to the governor of Ohio, informing him of the report. Stickney complied with this request, and the express was sent with letters to Gov. Harrison and Gov. Meigs. Active preparations were now begun by the little garrison of 100 for defense. Such men as could be spared with teams were employed to send off ladies who were there, with children, to the frontier; and it was subsequently ascertained that within a few hours after the messengers had started, the Indians drew their lines around the fort.

[Captain Rhea]...met the agent, heard his communication and dismissed it by observing that Bondie was a trifling fellow and no reliance could be placed upon what he said. This increased the perplexity of the agent. He sent for Bondie and his interpreter, to have a cross-examination. This being completed, it remained for the agent either to pass the matter without notice and incur the chances of the siege by the Indians of the two posts, to be followed by a regular force of British troops with artillery without any preparation for defense or relief from abroad, or to report the information, without attaching to it his official belief in its correctness, in which case it would have no effect.

The Indian warriors, to the number of some 500, as then supposed, assembled in the neighborhood of the fort; and it was evident that they had hopes of getting possession of it by stratagem. They would lie in wait near the fort, day after day, a few near, but the majority of them as much out of sight as possible. 

Volusia, On The St. John's

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns:

At Dade's Battle

Rural Florida Scene

Indian Life in Florida  Narrative of the early days and remembrances of Oceola Nikkanochee

Safer After The Point Pleasant Campaign

FLOWERING of the CUMBERLAND:

The land that was to be Kentucky and Tennessee grew somewhat safer after the Point Pleasant Campaign of 1774...

...that marked the end of Dunmore’s War and the defeat of the Shawnee.

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was founded in that year. Also came the surveyors, locating boundaries for the land warrants Virginia ...

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...had used to pay her soldiers in the French and Indian War. Some of these, including several hundred acres for George Rogers Clark,...

...were located on the Middle Cumberland in the neighborhood of French Lick, for at this time most thought all the Cumberland was due west of Virginia instead of North Carolina.

Dr. Wasdin First To Attend To President McKinley

"The fatal shots were fired at seven minutes past four [on September 6, 1901].  Dr. Herman Mynter, accompanied by Dr. Eugene Wasdin...was the first surgeon to arrive." President McKinley died on September 14, 1901.

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"Surgeon Eugene Wasdin of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 17, 1911. Dr. Wasdin was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, September 28, 1859; he graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1882, and was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service August 2, 1883. He was stationed successively at New Orleans ,Louisiana; Galveston, Texas;, New York NY; Chicago, Illinois; Mobile, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; South Atlantic Quarantine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Havana, Cuba; Washington, D. C.; Buffalo, New York; and Memphis, Tennessee. He also served upon the Yellow Fever Commission of the service to which he belonged and was a delegate to the International Medical Congress in 1899. He was also detailed for special duty at Bremen, Hamburg, Antwerp, and Rotterdam. While in Buffalo in 1901 he was assigned to special duty with the President. On July 22, 1909, Dr. Wasdin was relieved from active duty at Memphis, Tennessee on account of ill health."

Julia's Brother's Commanding Officer

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

In connection with General [Sam] Houston I am reminded of Colonel Thornton Posey, who was intimately associated with my brother during his last visit to the home circle in Washington. This dear brother, not twenty years old, held the honorable position of first lieutenant in Colonel Posey's regiment.

Louisiana State Gazette (New Orleans, Louisiana)30 Oct 1817 (Newspapers.com)

Colonel Posey had nobly distinguished himself in the war of 1812, and was retained in the peace establishment as a highly esteemed and trustworthy officer.

Note; Colonel Posey's brother, Alexander Posey, and William Roark [my ancestor] engaged in a real estate transaction.

Notices of Florida and the Campaigns

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns....:

This treaty was signed Col. James Gadsden on the part of the United States, and by fifteen chiefs and head men from the vagabond Seminole nation. In a letter from Col. James Gadsden...he says I feel assured that they (Ecouchatti Micco and Mulatto King) will ultimately negotiate under the last stipulations of their compact relinquishing their lands and coming in as parties to the treaty of Payne's landing. There can be no difficulty on this subject, for they are a component part of the Seminole Nation, were parties to the treaty of Camp Moultrie... .

The Affair At King's Mountain

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Colonel Trousdale

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The Mexican War And Its Heroes...

See a biography of William Trousdale (my 1st cousin 7x removed). 

Legacy Of The American Revolution

The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British ...:

Also see: Thomas Brown in a Hornet's Nest and The King's Rangers Colonel Brown.

Quin Hieronymus In The Military

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

Of all duties, the hardest is to forget a great sorrow. The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. It was as the friend and companion of this brother [Quin] (who died in Florida on military duty) on one of his short visits home, in 1817, that I first saw General Sam Houston.

Military Park In Pensacola, Florida

Military record of Quin B. Hieronymus (Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line].):

#1217.  Hieronymus, Quin B., 2nd Lt., 4th Inf., appt. Feb. 19/18

Lt. Hieronymus served at Pensacola, Barrancas, Montpelier; June and July 1820, absent having tendered his resignation; died August 17, 1820

The 10th Wisconsin In Alabama

From the diary of Miss Priscilla Larkin...:

"The 10th Wisconsin Regiment are at last stationed, in our little village, We received intelligence to day of a glorious victory at Richmond...".

Source - Map of middle and east Tennessee and parts of Alabama and Georgia

The 10th Wisconsin Infantry History:

"...the Tenth Regiment as rear guard, brought through the last trains from Huntsville to Stevenson.
We find the following in the table of casualties prepared by Adjutant General Gaylord:

Killed.—At Mud Creek, Ala., August 22.— Company J—Privates Thos. Denlan, G. W. Hancock and Henry Reed.  At Larkinsville, Ala.—Company F— Private Theo. Helgus.

At Stevenson, the rebels attempted to prevent the leaving of the trains; the Tenth Regiment bringing up the rear, secured the final departure of the troops, and arrived at Nashville on the 5th September.

Veteran Of Point Pleasant Battle Marched To The Aid Of General Washington

One of the first companies that marched to the aid of Washington when he was at Cambridge in 1775 was that of Captain Michael Cresap, which was raised partly in Maryland and partly in the western part of Virginia. ...his company may be taken as a fair sample of what the riflemen of the frontiers of our country were, and of what they could do. We will therefore give the words of an eyewitness of their performances. This account is taken from the Pennsylvania Journal of August 23rd, 1775.

Battle In Lord Dunmore's War

"On Friday evening last arrived at Lancaster, Pa., on their way to the American camp, Captain Cresap's Company of Riflemen, consisting of one hundred and thirty active, brave young fellows, many of whom have been in the late expedition under Lord Dunmore against the Indians. They bear in their bodies visible marks of their prowess, and show scars and wounds which would do honour to Homer's Iliad.

"At night a great fire was kindled around a pole planted in the Court House Square, where the company with the Captain at their head, all naked to the waist and painted like savages (except the Captain, who was in an Indian shirt), indulged a vast concourse of people with a perfect exhibition of a war-dance and all the manoeuvres of Indians; holding council, going to war; circumventing their enemies by defiles; ambuscades; attacking; scalping, etc. It is said by those who are judges that no representation could possibly come nearer the original. The Captain's expertness and agility, in particular, in these experiments, astonished every beholder. This morning they will set out on their march for Cambridge." [Source]

Lewis Brothers At Braddock's Defeat