The Soldiers of America's First Army 1791

by Lytle, Richard M.

• ISBN13: 9780810850118
• ISBN10: 0810850117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-22
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

The Soldiers of America's First Army: 1791 assembles in one place both the narrative and hard to find reference materials that genealogists and historians need to research and better understand this seminal event in America's westward growth.

Author Biography

Richard M. Lytle is a historian and librarian at Hammond Public Library in Hammond, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Introduction	1	(122)
1. History of the Miami Indians	5	(10)
2. The United States Army before 1791	15	(8)
3. Creating the Regiments	23	(10)
4. Recruiting and Forming the Regiments	33	(10)
5. Deployments, April to September 1791	43	(12)
6. The Question of Numbers	55	(18)
7. Beginning St. Clair's Campaign	73	(14)
8. The Fight on the Wabash	87	(22)
9. Retreat and Recovery	109	(14)
10. Aftermath	123	(12)
Personnel Lists:
A. General Officers	135	(8)
B. Officers of the U.S. Battalion of Artillery, United States Army, 1785-1794	143	(10)
C. Officers of the First U.S. Regiment of Infantry, United States Army, 1791	153	(26)
D. Officers of the Second U.S. Regiment of Infantry, United States Army, 1791	179	(70)
E. Officers of the First U.S. Regiment of Levies, United States Army, 1791	249	(22)
F. Officers of the Second U.S. Regiment of Levies, United States Army, 1791	271	(22)
G. Officers of Faulkner's Pennsylvania Militia Company, 1791	293	(2)
H. Officers of Oldham's Kentucky Militia Regiment, 1791	295	(6)
I. Enlisted Personnel, All Commands, United States Army, 1791	301	(118)
Appendix: Numbers, Food, Equipment, Clothing	419	(2)
Notes	421	(8)
Bibliography	429	(12)
Index	441	(6)
About the Author	447