Showing posts with label Infantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infantry. Show all posts

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Nathan Nabors


From the NARA's Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914:


Source - Fold3

Sergeant, 3rd U.S. Infantry
December 8, 1808
Captain Joseph Woodruff
Colonel Hampton


December 19, 1809
...3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, who has come to Charleston from Rocky Mount with two companies of regulars under Capt. Joseph Woodruff and Lt. Benjamin Herriott....


My 4th great-grandmother was Rebecca Neighbors/Nabors.  Related to Nathan?  I don't know.




Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Mr. Rogers Who Was A British Soldier


Among the Letters Received By the Adjutant General, 1805 - 1821, was a letter to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn from William Rogers (and also one to President James Madison), who had served in the British military, and wanted an appointment in the U.S. Military in 1811.  His siblings lived in the United States and he had married a Quaker woman.

Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania  30 April 1811


Source
"Being in London in 1797 I entered into the British Military Service in a Battalion of Infantry...".