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Military note from 1813
Military note from 1813, addressed to "all the boys left at Fort Winchester," stating that all the officers in the 1st Regiment are all dead or prisoner, and that "We Kentuckians will hang together," with a list of names on the back. -
Military order book for the 16th Kentucky Militia, 1814
Military order book for the 16th Kentucky Militia, kept by Captain Aaron Gregg. Entries from the order book included are between 26 October 1814 and 10 November 1814. -
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 1813
Military orders for the Lexington Rifle Company, 24 February 1813. -
Orderly book for the 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment, 1814
Orderly book for the 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment, kept by Captain Aaron Gregg. -
Portrait of Benjamin Bayless
Benjamin Bayless was born in Hartford County, Maryland, and migrated to Mason County, Kentucky, sometime withing the first decade of Kentucky's statehood. He married Elizabeth Wood in 1798. During the War of 1812, he sustained a lifelong injury. In 1815, he was appointed Sheriff of Mason County. The U. S. Census shows that he enslaved thirteen persons in 1820 and ten persons in 1830. -
Portrait of Martin D. Hardin
Martin D. Hardin (1780-1823) was born in Pennsylvania and migrated with his family to Kentucky in 1786. He studied law under George Nicholas, who is credited with writing Kentucky's first constitution upon becoming a state in 1792. Hardin served as a militia major in the War of 1812 and was a politician. He served as Secretary of State under Governor Isaac Shelby from 1812-1816. He represented Madison County and later Franklin County in the Kentucky Legislature in 1805-1806, 1812, 1818-1820. He also briefly served as a United States Senator, 1816-1817. He was married Elizabeth Logan, daughter of Kentucky pioneer Benjamin Logan, in 1809. They had four children before his death at age forty-three. -
Resolution regarding payments to the widows and orphans of War of 1812 soldiers, 20 January 1816
Resolution approved by Kentucky's congress and governor asking the United States Congress to make a "prompt and liberal allowance" to the orphans and widows of the militiamen who had lost their lives during the War of 1812. -
Robert McAfee's Company Memorandum Book, 1813-1814
Journal of Robert McAfee's mounted company in Colonel Richard Johnson's regiment. Includes orders and such issued on the expedition. -
William Henry Harrison Battle orders, ca. 1813 October
Military order from William Henry Harrison for an attack upon the British and Native Americans. The attack involves control of Lake Erie and is thought to have been written in October. The attack was to involve commanders such as Isaac Shelby, James Vincent Ball, Duncan McArthur, Lewis Cass, and Oliver Hazard Perry.