List of Officers Killed at St. Clair's Defeat

LIST OF OFFICERS KILLED AT ST. CLAIR'S DEFEAT

November 4, 1791

Service Records From: Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army by Francis B. Heitman, Government Printing Office, 1903

Major General Richard Butler
From: Pennsylvania
Captain 2nd Battalion January 5, 1776
Appointed Indian Agent May 17, 1778
Major in 8th Pennsylvania July 20, 1776
Lieutenant Colonel March 12, 1777
Colonel in 9th Pennsylvania June 7, 1777
Transferred to 5th Pennsylvania January 17, 1781
Transferred to 3rd Pennsylvania January 1, 1783 and Served to November 3, 1783
Brevet Brigadier General September 30, 1783
Major General U.S. Levies in 1791.

Colonel Oldham

Majors:
Briggs

Clark

Ferguson, William
From: Ireland/Connecticut
Captain 4th Continental Artillery March 14, 1777
Taken Prisoner at Bound Brook April 13, 1777
Exchanged December 1, 1780
Captain April 14, 1778
Retained January 1, 1783
Captain U.S. Artillery October 20, 1785
Captain Artillery Battalion U.S.A. September 29, 1789
Major Commandant Artillery Battalion March 4, 1791

Hart

Lemon

Montgomery

Captains:
Bradford, James
From: Pennsylvania
2nd Lieutenant in 9th Pennsylvania January 15, 1777
1st Lieutenant Patton's Continental Regiment March 1777 to Rank from January 14, 1777
Regimental Quartermaster 1778
Transferred to 2nd Continental Artillery July 21, 1779
Aide-de-Camp to General Alexander June 24 to November 1781
1st Lieutenant June 25, 1781
Adjutant August 22, 1782 to June 1783
Transferred to Corps of Artillerists June 17, 1783 and Served to June 20, 1784
Captain U.S. Artillery Company October 20, 1786
Captain Artillery U.S.A. September 29, 1789

Crebbs

Gaither

Kirkwood, Robert
From: Delaware
1st Lieutenant Delaware Regiment January 17, 1776
Captain December 1, 1776 and Served to Close of War
Brevet Major September 30, 1783
Captain 2nd U.S. Infantry March 4, 1791

Newman, Samuel
From: Massachusetts
Ensign in Knox's Regiment of Continental Artillery 1776
Lieutenant in Lee's Continental Regiment May 20, 1777
Resigned December 1778
Served in U.S. Navy
Lieutenant 2nd U.S. Infantry March 4, 1791

Phelon, Patrick
From: Ireland/Massachusetts
1st Lieutenant Henly's Additional Continental Regiment June 20, 1777
Transferred to Jackson's Regiment April 22, 1779
Regiment Designated 16th Massachusetts July 23, 1780
Transferred to 9th Massachusetts January 1, 1781
Transferred to 3rd Massachusetts January 1, 1783
Brevet Captain September 30, 1783
Retained in Jackson's Continental Regiment November 1783 and Served to June 20, 1784
Captain 2nd U.S. Infantry March 4, 1791

Piatt

Price

Purdy

Smith

Tipton

Van Sewaringen

Lieutenants:
Boyd

Burgess

Hopper

Kelso

Likens

Little

McMath,

Read

Spear, Edward
From: Pennsylvania
2nd Lieutenant 6th Pennsylvania February 7, 1778
1st Lieutenant May 16, 1781
Transferred to 1st Pennsylvania January 1, 1783 and Served to November 3, 1783
Lieutenant U.S. Artillery Battalion September 10, 1787
Lieutenant Artillery U.S.A. September 29, 1789

Warren, Winslow
From: Massachusetts
Lieutenant 2nd Infantry March 4, 1791
Adjutant May to November 1791

Ensigns:
Balch, William
Ensign 2nd Infantry March 4, 1791

Beatty

Bines
Brooks

Chase

Cobb, David Jr.
From: Massachusetts
Ensign 2nd Infantry March 4, 1791

Purdy

Turner

Wilson

Quartermasters:
Reynolds

Ward

Adjutant:
Anderson

Surgeons:
Beatty

Chase

Crasson

Other Officers:
Butts

Crawford

Cummings

Doyle

Ford

McNickle

McRea

Moorehead
Morgan

Thompson

Approximately 630 troops

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