Missouri Military in the War of 1812
Missouri Military in the War of 1812
In the Missouri Historical Review, Volume 4 Issue 1, dated October of 1909,
there is an article by Will C. Ferril, the Curator of the State Historical and Natural
History Society of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Ferril suggests that the military men
who built and defended the forts in the Territory of Missouri from Indian attacks
should be officially recognized by the State of Missouri as a part of the volunteer
or military force of Missouri during the War of 1812 when those attacks were made.
He references the History of Howard and Cooper counties, Missouri published in 1883
by the National Historical Company. Pages 95 to 98 contain a list of the men and
older boys in the three main forts in the Boone's Lick country that eventually became
Howard County, Missouri.
Captain:
Sarshall Cooper
First Lieutenant:
William McMahon
Second Lieutenant:
John Monroe
Ensign:
Benjamin Cooper, Jr.
Sergeants:
1st. John McMurray
2d. Samuel McMahan
3d. Adam Woods
4th. Davis Todd
5th. John Mathis
Corporals:
1st. Andrew Smith
2d. Thomas Vaughan
3d. James McMahan
4th. John Busby
5th. James Barnes
6th. Jesse Ashcraft
Men and boys listed in the different forts:
Fort Cooper:
James Alexander
James Anderson
Middleton Anderson
William Anderson
Gray Bynum
John Busby
Robert Brown
Samuel Brown
Benjamin Cooper
Sarshall Cooper
Frank Cooper
William Cooper
David Cooper
John Cooper
Braxton Cooper
Joseph Cooper
Stephen Cooper
Robert Cooper
Henly Cooper
Patrick Cooper
Jesse Cox
Solomon Cox
John Ferrill
Henry Ferrill
Edward Good
Harmon Gregg
William Gregg
David Gregg
Robert Heath
Robert Hancock
Abbott Hancock
Josiah Higgins
Frederick Hyatt
Robert Irvine
David Jones
John Jones
Jesse Jones
George Jackson
Stephen Jackson
James Jackson
Samuel McMahan
Thomas McMahan
James McMahan
William McMahan
John O'Bannon
Thomas O'Bannon
Judiah Osmond
Samuel Perry
William Read
Benoni Sappington
John Sappington
James Sappington
Daniel Tillman
John Thorp
William Thorp
Samuel Turley
Stephen Turley
Ezekiel Williams
Thomas Wasson
Joseph Wasson
Adam Woods
William Wolfskill
Joseph Wolfskill
William Wolfskill, Jr.
Fort Hempstead:
George Alcorn
James Alcorn
William Allen
John Arnold
Price Arnold
Joseph Austin
John Austin
Robert Austin
William Baxter
Big Berry
John Berry
William Berry
David Boggs
Joseph Boggs
Muke Box
Joseph Boyers
Robert Brown
Samuel Brown
William Brown
Townsend Brown
Christopher Brown
Christopher Burckhartt
Nicholas S. Burckhartt
Andrew Carson
Lindsay Carson (father of Kit Carson)
Moses Carson
Charles Canole
William Canole
Isaac Clark
Joseph Cooley
James Cooley
Ferrin Cooley
Braxton Cooper, Jr.
James Cockrell
Thomas Chandler
James Creason
John Creason
Peter Creason
William Creason
Daniel Crump
Harper Davis
James Douglas
Daniel Durbin
John Elliott
Braxton Fugate
Hiram Fugate
Reuben Fugate
Sarshall Fugate
Simeon Fugate
Reuben Gentry
Samuel Gibbs
Abner Grooms
John Grooms
William Grooms
Alfred Head
Moses Head
Robert Hinkson
John James
James Jones
Abner Johnson
Noah Katew
Joseph McLane
William McLane
Ewing McLane
David McQuitly
William Monroe (called Long Gun)
Joseph Moody
Susan Mullens
Thompson Mullens
John Peak
William Pipes
Michael Poage
Robert Poage
Joseph Poage
Christopher Richardson
Jesse Richardson
James Richardson
Silas Richardson
John Rupe
Henry Simmons
Reuben Smith
Andrew Smith
Thomas Smith
John Snethan
James Snethan
Joseph Still
John Stinson
Nathan Teague
Solomon Teague
David Teters
John Teters
Isaac Thornton
John Thornton
Davis Todd
Elisha Todd
Jonathan Todd
Levi Todd
James Turner
Philip Turner
Jesse Turner
Thomas Vaughan
Robert Wilds
William Wadkins
James Whitley
Benjamin Young
John Yarnell
Fort Kincaid:
Amos Ashcraft
Jesse Ashcraft
Otho Ashcraft
Amos Barnes
Aquilla Barnes
Abraham Barnes
James Barnes
John Barnes
Shadrach Barnes
Robert Barclay
Francis Berry
Campbell Bolen
Delany Bolen
William Brazil
David Burris
Henry Burris
Reuben Cornelius
Pryor Duncan
Stephen Fields
John Fields
Cornelius Gooch
Thomas Gray
John Hines
Daniel Hubbard
Asaph Hubbard
Eusebius Hubbard
Joseph Jolly
David Kincaid
Matthew Kincaid
John Kincaid
John McMurray
Adam McCord
Daniel Monroe
John Monroe
John Mathis
William Nash
John Pursley
William Ridgeway
William Robertson
Edward Robertson
Gilead Rupe
Enoch Taylor
Isaac Taylor
William Taylor
Enoch Turner
Giles Williams
Britton Williams
Francis Wood
Henry Weeden