Regiment With Captain Trousdale

From Transactions of the Illinois State.....

The Third Regiment of the Illinois militia consisting of two battalions.  The Colonel was Isaac White (White County, Indiana, is named after him).  Majors were Philip Trammel, Hamlet Ferguson, Owen Evans and William Simpson.

James Trousdale and Willis Hargraves were two of the captains.

I believe that the James Trousdale who was a captain in the War of 1812 was the James Trousdale who was   the brother of my Mary, but I'm not positive.

A Portrait Of General Leslie Combs

General Combs from Narrative of the life of General Leslie Combs:

General Leslie Combs (1793-1881) is descended, on the side of his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Richardson, from a respectable Quaker family of Maryland, connected by blood with the Thomases and Snowdens. His father was by birth a Virginian, and served as a subaltern officer in the revolutionary army under Washington, at the siege of Yorktown and capture of Lord Cornwallis.

Young Leslie Combs had just passed his eighteenth birthday, and was, by law, subject to militia duty, although he had not been inscribed on any muster-roll.

Equipping himself as a private of cavalry as speedily as possible, about a month after the army marched from Georgetown, Kentucky, he started alone on their track, hoping to overtake them in time to partake of their glorious triumphs in Canada, for, like the rest, he never dreamed of disaster and defeat.

Having risen from the ranks to the office of captain in two campaigns, without the aid of friends or fortune, by repeated acts of self-devotion, Leslie Combs had returned home naked and penniless, a cripple for life.

The Combs family.

1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue

              A

          DICTIONARY

             OF

BUCKISH SLANG, UNIVERSITY WIT,

            AND

     PICKPOCKET ELOQUENCE

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue contains lots of interesting items, including the one below.  Was the term used during the War?

ACT OF PARLIAMENT. A military term for small beer, five pints of which, by an act of parliament, a landlord was formerly obliged to give to each soldier gratis.

Names Found In The PA Archives

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Bureau of Archives and History

Pennsylvania State Archives

Records of the Department of the Auditor General

WAR OF 1812 INDEX OF SOLDIERS, undated

Arranged alphabetically by surname of soldier. An undated list of soldiers who served during the War of 1812. The index lists each soldier's name, term of service, and the name of the company commander. Written remarks noting desertions or the name of the battalions in which a militiaman served are also sometimes found.

An example from the "C" index:

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Cameron, Wm, is the last name in this excerpt from the file.

A Canadian Hero's Death At Fort Erie

Colonel Hercules Scott, of Brotherton, Scotland, was one of the heroes of 1812, and was killed on the 15th of August, in the same year, by receiving a musket ball in his breast, after leading the 103rd Regiment in the most gallant manner to the attack of Fort Erie, (having carried the out works by assault and the fort by escalade).  In him the service lost a most valuable, active, and zealous officer. [Source]

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Plans Of The Siege Operations Of Fort Erie

His remains were interred the same evening in the presence of the survivors of his regiment, attended by the only three officers who came out of the fort unhurt, the regiment having retreated after the fall of their leader, in consequence of the Americans having blown up a platform by which two hundred brave fellows were killed or wounded. [Source]

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Before the Battle of Fort Erie, Colonel Hercules Scott fought at Lundy's Lane.

Pictures of reenactors at Fort Erie here.

The Creek War: A War Within A War

From the Cumberland Island NPS Museum exhibit:

Creek War of 1813 And 1814

Early in the War of 1812, British officials took advantage of existing Native American sentiments toward the ever expanding American settlement.  by providing arms to allied tribes, the British gained their support.  In September of 1812, a group of Creek attacked a small white settlement in middle Tennessee.   ...Andrew Jackson continued south to defeat the Creek and end the war (Creek War) at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

William Pinkney

Pre-War:  Pinkney and James Monroe made a futile attempt to devise a treaty between the United States and Great Britain.

Source

William Pinkney "served as a major in the Maryland militia during the War of 1812 and was wounded at the Battle of Bladensburg, Md., in August 1814; elected to the Fourteenth Congress... ."

There is a biography of Mr. Pinkney written by his nephew.