Showing posts with label LOC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LOC. Show all posts
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Bay Of Apalachicola

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New Orleans To Apalachicola Bay (LOC) Let us now see in what manner the British began to execute their hostile designs against Louisiana. In...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Crany On Map

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Source (LOC)
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Plot New Mischief

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Baltimore, Maryland, Map, Circa 1781 (LOC) Source
Friday, August 14, 2020

McArthur And Cass

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On the 14th, Hull ordered McArthur and Cass to march with a considerable force to the River Raisin, by an inland trail running back from th...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Reconnoitering Under McArthur

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On the 14th [of July] a company of militia and a rifle corps, under colonel M'cArthur, were detached to reconnoitre the country. They p...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Captain John Whistler In The Van Buren Papers

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Calendar of the papers of Martin Van Buren ... ,   By Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, Elizabeth Howard West:
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Cared Not To Evade It

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Partial Map Of Canada Circa 1805 (LOC) Source
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Fort Brown

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Source: LOC Fort Brown Historical Marker "Fort Brown was situated on the banks of these rivers  at the point to the right o...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Colorful Map Of Ohio Military Activity

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Map near Fort Meigs
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Lay In The Black Swamp

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General Area Of The Black Swamp In Ohio ( Source - LOC ) This rain in January, 1813, was very general, especially in the valley of th...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

The Seat Of War In Louisiana And West Florida

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Historical memoir of the war in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 ...[ General map of the seat of war in Louisiana and West Florida (ex...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Captain Mundy's Letter

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In addition to the Indians sent to patrol the Huntingdon [Canadian] frontier, Governor Prevost, on the arrival of a few regulars from Engla...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Caulk's Field (Across The River From Baltimore)

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Source A new map of Virginia with Maryland, Delaware... Repository Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. Di...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Fort Mims

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Source - LOC Fort Mims - Top Portion Of Map (Centered)
Friday, August 24, 2018

Sketch Of The Action Fought Near Bladensberg

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Source Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], August 24th, 1814 Ormsby, Thos. Created / Published [1816...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Greenleaf's Point Explosion

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LOC Source "...the British were bent on destroying before they left the district [about 24 August 1814] "A squad of soldi...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Wood River Massacre

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"The Indian massacre occurred on the southwest quarter of section five, in Wood River township , Madison county, Illinois, on the 10t...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Samuel Reid, Naval Hero

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Source Source A finding aid for the Samuel Chester Reid papers can be found at the Library of Congress site. A poem touting ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Kosciuszko Armstrong Defends His Father

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Some background on the controversy regarding John Armstrong found here . "...[Armstrong's] attention has lately been called to ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

A Band Of Brothers

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From the Library of Congress, First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820, a letter written by Isaac Shelby. Headquarters...