Fort Recovery: An Historical Sketch Depicting Its Role in the History of the Old Northwest (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Frazier, Ida Hedrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282896775 ISBN 13: 9780282896775

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Fort Recovery: An Historical Sketch Depicting Its Role in the History of the Old Northwest

Congress appropriated thirty-seven thousand dollars for equip ping the army for this expedition, which had for its object the erection of a military post at the junction of the St. Marys and St.

Joseph rivers (now the site of Fort Wayne, Indiana) and posts of communication connecting with Fort Washington.

In the quarter-master's department things progressed slowly. Tents, pack-saddles, camp-kettles, knapsacks and cartridge boxes were all deficient in quantity and quality; powder was poor or damaged; accoutrements were out of repair; and no tools were available. Of 675 stands of arms at Fort Washington, very few were in order, and with two traveling forges there were no anvils.

General Butler was employed to obtain recruits, and as they appeared in Fort Washington, after long periods of detention at Philadelphia and prolonged travel on' the river, a new source of trouble arose from the intemperance indulged in by the recruits. To remove them from temptation, St. Clair placed 2000 of them at Ludlow's Station, six miles. From Fort Washington. They came principally from the states of New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0282896775
• ISBN 13: 9780282896775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36