Artillery Leather Cockade

  A tip was left at my blog post "Whose Uniform?" pointing me toward American Military Insignia 1800-1851, by J. Duncan Campbell, where the Artillery leather cockade was found.  Thanks to the tipster!

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I selected the artillery motif because my William Hinds was in the artillery.

Soldiers At Buffalo Fort

Building on the Raid of Buffalo Fort post, from A History Of Northeast Missouri...:

One of the soldiers, Peter Brandon, and Mary McConnell were married in the fort, and this is probably the first marriage in the county. There was no minister nor officer to legalize the marriage and it was performed by the good old Samuel Watson.

A few of the braver ones remained in the fort at Buffalo and others came to them from nearby settlements.  In July, 1814, a company of sixty-four volunteers, known as rangers, came up from Cap au Gris. They started to go to Fort Mason near Saverton and stopped at Buffalo Fort.  From there, for some unknown reason, part of them returned to Cap au Gris. The others, under command of Captain Ramsey, continued toward Fort Mason.

Pre-War Muster-Roll In Yarmouth, Maine

A Pre-War of 1812 Muster-Roll of Captain Peter Merrill's Company in a North Yarmouth, Maine, article about old times:

Private Duff Green's Experience Near Vincennes

Our regiment under the command Colonel Wilcox marched to Vincennes*... . ....[news] reached us that the Indians under Tecumseh had attacked Fort Harrison having defeated the Rangers.  [From Duff Green's auto-biographical information].

*An artist's rendering of Fort Knox located near Vincennes, Indiana:

Ft. Knox 1803 - 1813

In 1803 the federal government gave approval for the construction of a new fort near Vincennes.  Ft. Knox, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was eventually built on a bluff overlooking the Wabash river, three miles north of the village.  The outpost remained somewhat inactive until the increased tensions of 1811 brought about a heightened interest in improving the fortification.  Archaeological findings in the 1960's indicated that the fort's design may have resembled this artist's rendering.

Graves At Fort Amanda In Ohio

Graves near Fort Amanda:





The British burning of the War Records Office in Washington D.C. on August 24th, 1814 makes it impossible to establish the identity of these men (according to the marker).

Another marker page at Fort Amanda.

Spotswood Henry And The 2ND Artillery

From U.S. Army register  By United States. Dept. of the Army, United States. Adjutant-General's Office:

On the above list:

2nd Regiment of Artillery

Colonel Winfield Scott

Captain Spotswood Henry

Captain [Alexander] Spotswood Henry, son of the famed Patrick Henry, was significant in (my ancestor) William Hinds' military service; Captain Henry recruited him.

Also on the list of officers in the 2nd Regiment of Artillery was Nathan Towson.

James Miller's Portrait

From The military heroes of the war of 1812: with a narrative of the war, a portrait of General James Miller: