Soldiers in the Indian Wars

RESOURCES - BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND DOCUMENTS TO HELP YOU WITH RESEARCH

As of 2009, no one has compiled a complete list of the officers and soldiers serving at Fort Harmar from the fall 1785 to late 1789. Men were moved in and out of Fort Harmar on a fairly regular basis – ordered to other forts on the frontier. Below are some of the men who served at Fort Harmar or in the Indian Wars.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WITH NAMES OF SOLDIERS

Muster and pay rolls of the U.S. Army, 1791. (Muster and pay rolls for Col. William Darke's and Col. George Gibson's regiments of levies, engaged in the Miami Indian wars in Ohio. Many soldiers are listed as killed in St. Clair's defeat, November 1791). [located at Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] U.S. Army Legion of the United States orderly book, 1792-1793. Papers and Collection of Peter Force (Series 8D: entry 132). (General orders, 1792 October 20 - 1793 March 19, for the Legion of the United States, Anthony Wayne, commander at Pittsburgh and Legionville (Byersdale), Pennsylvania). [located at Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Regiment orderly book, 1792. (General orders, May - December 1792, issued at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Legionville (Byersdale), Pa., relating to Indian wars). [located at Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

Francis Bernard Heitman. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783. Washington: Press of Nichols, Killam & Maffitt, 1893. F. B. Heitman. Historical Register of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789 to September 29, 1889. Washington, DC: National Tribune, 1890.
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Richard M. Lytle. The Soldiers of America’s First Army: 1791. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

James Ripley Jacobs. The Beginning of the United States Army 1783-1812. Cranbury, New Jersey: Scholar’s Bookshelf. 1947, 2006.

Genevieve Potts. Abstracts of wills and administrations: 1788-1855 – Washington County, Ohio; 1788-1806 - Gallia County, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: n.p., 1939. [includes Nuncupative wills of soldiers at Fort Harmar, Washington County]

Fort Harmar website developed by Millie Covey Fry, Columbus, Ohio, 2009. This website will be updated periodically. Special thanks to Richard Walker, Ernest Thode, Richard Lytle, and Gary Williams for their historical expertise and to Scott Britton for his technical expertise.

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