Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent
Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent

Author: John Hannibal Sheppard

Publisher:

Published: 1871

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786-1867) was the youngest child of Daniel Sargent and Mary Turner of Boston, Massachusetts. He married Mary Binney (d. 1824), daughter of Barnabas and Mary Binney of Philadelphia, in 1816. They had three children. He married (2) Sarah Cutler (d. 1868), daughter of Samuel and Sarah Dunn of Boston, in 1825. They had one son. The earliest known ancestor was William Sargent of Exeter, England, who was married to Mary Epes. He went from Exeter to Bridgetown, Barbadoes, and returned to England. His son William Sargent the 2nd came to Gloucester, Mass. previous to 1678, for in 1677 he married Mary (d. 1724), daughter of Peter Duncan.

Field of Corpses
Field of Corpses

Author: Alan D. Gaff

Publisher: Knox Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1637585055

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November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair’s army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair’s force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation’s history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington’s first administration, which had been in office for only two years.