Category Archives: Western Frontier
Captain James Willing’s Mississippi Raid, Part 2
Willing’s next target was the town of Manchack upon which he descended “so rapidly that they reached the Settlements without being discovered.”[1] On the 23rd, Willing’s advance parties captured the 250-ton British sloop Rebecca, with sixteen 4-pounders and six swivels.[2] … Continue reading
Captain James Willing’s Mississippi Raid, Part 1
In 1778, Captain James Willing and his crew sailed and rowed the bateaux Rattletrap down the Ohio River to the Mississippi. A “left” turn of sorts then took them down the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf of … Continue reading
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, Part 2
An Englishman on the Frontier Part 1 click here. Nicholas Cresswell left Alexandria for the Illinois Country on March 16, 1775, his correspondence as yet unknown to the local Committee of Safety. The Ohio River served as a highway to … Continue reading
ERW Weekender: Wheeling
Emerging Revolutionary War welcomes guest historian Jon-Erik Gilot. A short bio is attached at the bottom of this post. Though perhaps more widely known as the birthplace of West Virginia during the Civil War, Wheeling and its environs retains several … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Emerging Revolutionary War, ERW Weekender, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Native American, Revolutionary War, Western Frontier
Tagged 1774, 1777, 1782, American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, Emerging Revolutionary War Symposium, ERW Weekender, Fort Henry, Jon-Erik Gilot, Lewis Wetzel, Major Samuel McColloch, National Road, Native Americans
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Groundhog Day and the Legend of Ponks Uteney
Before Americans began relying on a local groundhog to predict the weather, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania had a legend attached to it. In 1772, Native Americans converted to Christianity under the tutelage of missionaries from the Church of the United Brethren (known … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Uncategorized, Western Frontier
Tagged Missionaries, Moravians, Native Americans, Punxsutawney
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McColloch’s Leap
“By no means comparable with the feats of a similar character” and “performed an act of daring” and “nay, desperate horsemanship” and “seldom been equaled by man or beast.” All these describe the amazing escape of Major Samuel McColloch in … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Emerging Revolutionary War, Memory, Militia (Patriot) Leadership, Monuments, Native American, Uncategorized, Western Frontier
Tagged 1774, 1777, Emerging Revolutionary War, Fort Henry, Lord Dunmore, Major Samuel McColloch, Native Americans, Patrick Henry, Phillip S. Greenwalt, Virginia, West Virginia, Wheeling
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