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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sargent , Winthrop 1825 -1870 (search)
Sargent, Winthrop 1825-1870
Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23, 1825; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1845 and at the Harvard Law School in 1847; practised in his native city.
He was the author of History of an expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1775, under Major-General Braddock, edited from original manuscripts; The loyalist poetry of the Revolution; The journal of the General meeting of the Cincinnati; Life and career of Maj. John Andre; The Confederate States and slavery, etc. He died in Paris, France, May 18, 1870.
Military officer; born in Gloucester, Mass., May 1, 1753; graduated at Harvard College in 1771; entered the military service in 1775; and became captain of Knox's artillery regiment in March, 1776, serving with it during the war, and engaging in the principal battles in the North, attaining the rank of major.
Connected with the Ohio Company in 1786, Congress appointed him surveyor of the Northwest Territory, and he was made its firs
Scott, Charles 1733-
Military officer; born in Cumberland county, Va., in 1733; was corporal of a Virginia company in the battle of the Monongahela, where Braddock was defeated in 1755.
When the Revolutionary War broke out, he raised and commanded the first company organized south of the James River for the Continental service.
On Aug. 12, 1776, he was appointed colonel, and was distinguished at Trenton and in the battle of Princeton; and just a year later he was promoted to brigadier-general.
He was the last officer to leave the field at Monmouth in 1778.
He was conspicuous in the storming of Stony Point, under Wayne, in 1779, and the next year was with Lincoln, at Charleston, where he was made prisoner.
He was closely confined for a while, to the injury of his health.
He was released on his parole near the close of the war, when he was exchange.
In 1785 General Scott settled in Woodford, Ky., and in 1791, as brigadier-general of the Kentucky levies, led an expedition int
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stephen , Adam 1730 -1791 (search)
Stephen, Adam 1730-1791
Military officer; born in Virginia about 1730; was an officer of merit in the French and Indian and other colonial wars, serving with distinction under Braddock.
He was afterwards in command of Fort Cumberland, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Returning from an expedition against the Creek Indians, he was assigned to the defence of the Virginia frontier and made brigadiergeneral.
Commanding a Virginia regiment when the Revolutionary War began, he was made (September, 1776) brigadier-general in the Continental service, and in February, 1777, major-general.
His behavior was exemplary in the battle of Brandywine; but yielding to temptation, he was intoxicated at the battle of Germantown, and was dismissed from the army.
He died in Virginia in November, 1791.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker , Thomas 1715 -1794 (search)
Walker, Thomas 1715-1794
Patriot; born in Gloucester county, Va., Jan. 25, 1715; educated at William and Mary College; studied medicine and practised in Fredericksburg, Va. In 1750 he travelled west and was probably the first white man to pass the present boundaries of Kentucky.
He was commissary-general under Washington in General Braddock's army, and was present at the latter's defeat.
In 1775 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served on the second committee of safety; in 1777 was appointed with his son, Col. John Walker, to visit the Indians in Pittsburg, Pa., for the purpose of gaining their friendship for the Americans; and in 1778 was made president of the commission to settle the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. Walker Mountains in southwestern Virginia were named after him. He died in Albemarle county, Va., Nov. 9, 1794.
His son, John, legislator; born in Albemarle county, Va., Feb. 13, 1744, was an aide to Washington during the R