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The "average" Mid-Eighteenth-Century Soldier, 
as of Thursday, July 13, 2017​

https://kabinettskriege.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-average-mid-eighteenth-century.html
 

Washington's Men in Winchester 

Which Company?

2nd Company?

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/post/2016/05/17/which-company-which-regiment

 

Drummers? How many to a company?

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/14/drummers

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Each officer has a story:

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Each one has a story like Daniel Boone without the publicity star making machine of the old Disney and tv series.

 

Here are stories on some of those officers.

 

Stay tuned to this blog.

 

We will be adding more links to each of the officers listed here.

 

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The Captains

There were more Captains but the number of companies were reduced earlier this year of 1757.

 

 

Mercer - Captain George Mercer

 

George Mercer is aide de camp to Colonel George Washington of the Virginia Regiment.

 

He is also Captain of a company we reenactors represent.

 

He makes me think of Marlon Brando's immortal line On the Water Front:

 

"I could have been a contender."

 

He later became Lt Colonel of the 2nd VA Regiment under Colonel Byrd in the Forbes Expedition to "reduce" Fort Duquesne.

 

Then became head of the Office of Stamp Distributor just briefly enough to be horrified by a burning effigy of him.

 

Then he became Lt Gov of North Carolina.

 

And he was in the running to become Governor of a new colony called Vandalia.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mercer_(military_officer)

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/just-one-letter-is-full-of-stories

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/history

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/a-storm-is-coming-mercer-writes-about-it

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0284#GEWN-02-08-02-0284-fn-0003

 

 

 

 

Waggener - Captain Thomas Waggener

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/06/fort-pleasant-waggeners-lower-fort

 

 

 

Stewart - Captain Robert Stewart

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He was head of the light horse of the Virginia Regiment in Braddock's Expedition. He and George Washington used Braddock's Sash as a stretcher to carry their wounded 60 year old commander away from the carnage of the battle.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart_(soldier)

 

https://genfiles.com/stewart/setting-the-record-straight-on-major-robert-stewart/the-case-of-lt-colonel-robert-stewart/

 

http://jjduk.blogspot.com/2011/09/captain-robert-stewart-monongahela-1755.html

 

The story of the curt reply and a street of Winchester VA named after him:

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/copy-of-washington-s-men-in-winchester

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William Peachey

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/the-ups-and-downs-for-william-peachey

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McKenzie - Captain Robert McKenzie

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/gw-s-war-in-february-1757

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0104

 

 

 

 

The Lieutenants

 

 

Crawford - Lt William Crawford

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2016/10/09/William-Crawford-Burned-at-the-Stake

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crawford_(soldier)

 

 

Smith - Lt Charles Smith

Foreman who supervised building of Fort Loudoun 1756-1758.

Earlier in 1756 Smith first worked under Captain Waggener to build Forts on the Patterson

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/when-one-punch-kills-everyone-is-surprised-yeah

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/construction-timeline-of-fort-

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/a-storm-is-coming-mercer-writes-about-it

 

 

 

 

Gist - Lt Christopher Gist

He accepted a demotion from Captain of a company of Scouts in 1757.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gist

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/you-can-t-just-walk-off

 

 

 

Nathaniel Gist

was with his father Christopher Gist

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Gist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:

 

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/history

 

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-04-02-0277

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Which Cocks, Cocke, Cox?

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/which-cocks-cocke-cox

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Rutherford's Rangers

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/rutherford-s-rangers

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/rutherford-s-rangers-fears-realized 

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https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/rutherford-s-rangers-and-the-big-t-route

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Stories on Thomas Bullitt

 

George Mercer vs Thomas Bullitt on the Promised Land

posted in Untold stories Feb 2024  covering Feb 1760

 

George Mercer's Report on Thomas Bullitt Sept 1759

posted in Untold stories Sep 13, 2023 covering Sept 759

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This story also contains an excellent bio

Most Violent Tornado & Lightning & Thomas Bullitt in it

posted in Untold stories May 31, 2023  covering May 1759

 

Warn the Cherokee at Fort Loudoun, Don't attack.

posted in Untold stories Mar 26, 2022  covering March 1758

 

 

 

George Washington Bio

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From Douglas Southall Freeman's Young George Washington, Volume 1, published 1948, Charles Scribner's Sons

 

From Douglas Southall Freeman's Young George Washington, Volume 2, Pages 239-240, published 1948, Charles Scribner's Sons

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The Writings of George Washington, 14 vols.

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  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. I (1748-1757)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. II (1758-1775)

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  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. III (1775-1776)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. IV (1776)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. V (1776-1777)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. VI (1777-1778)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. VII (1778-1779)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. VIII (1779-1780)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. IX (1780-1782)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. X (1782-1785)

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  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. XI (1785-1790)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. XII (1790-1794)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798)

  • The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799)

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“A MEMORIAL, containing a summary Account of Facts, in Answer to the Observations of the English Ministry, addressed to the Courts of Europe.” "

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This is the diary of GW stolen by the French at Fort Necessity and re-edited as the French version

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https://archive.org/details/memorialcontaini00more/page/n1/mode/2up

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Washington Irving's biography of George Washington:

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077178143&view=2up&seq=294

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