Fort Henry

Frontier, Myths and Legends, Native Americans, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) November 7, 2023 November 7, 2023

A Leap of Faith in the Historical Record: The Legend of McColloch’s Leap

by Al Dickenson

With a group of forty cavalrymen, Maj. Samuel McColloch rode to the aid of Fort Henry, near Wheeling, Virginia. It was September 1, 1777,…

Features, Frontier, Interviews, Native Americans, People, The War Years (1775-1783) May 3, 2020 May 3, 2020

This Week on Dispatches: Eric Sterner on the Siege of Fort Henry

by Editors

On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor and writer Eric Sterner on the Siege of Fort Henry on the Virginia frontier in 1782….

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Myths and Legends, People, The War Years (1775-1783) January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020

Betty Zane and the Siege of Fort Henry, September 1782

by Eric Sterner

In 1774, as tensions between colonials and Native Americans living along the upper Ohio River grew, settlers either fled east of the mountains or…

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1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

That was a joke about the attorneys (the grin text was not picked up when the comment posted).
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mark, likewise. Thanks also for the correction. I love working with original documents, but transcriptions can sometimes be difficult. Many of the pension application files are actually harder to…
3. Mark Sternberg Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Nice article, Phil, and great to meet you at Fort Lee. Just a minor correction - it's Zachariah "Hawkins," not "Newkirk."