War of 1812 Vermont

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Contents 1 Vermont 2 Skirmishes/Battles 3 Regiments 4 The Men 5 Sources

Vermont

Vermont map, Lake Champlain.

Vermonters were rather nervous, as they were geographically next to Canada. They were landlocked, Vermont was not in favor of the war. In fact its citizens traded with the British and supplied them with cattle and military needs for their British ships such as masts and spars.

There were no major battles in Vermont during the War of 1812. Due to its proximity to British North America, the troops it did provide were to fulfill the requirements of the U S government miitary. Vermont troops served mostly for the defense of the northern border of Vermont.. Its troops served in battles occurring in northern New York state.

During the War of 1812, Vermont furnished 4,853 infantry men, 243 cavalry men, and 140 artillery men for a total of 5,236 men.

Battle of Plattsburg.

Skirmishes/Battles

Battle of Plattsburg.

• Murray’s Raid, Aug. 2, 1813- after British attack on Plattsburg, New York, British sent part of ships into Burlington Bay. - 20-30 cannon duel with American battery located on the bluff at Burlington, Vermont.

• Burlington, Vermont was a staging ground (located on the East of Lake Champlain, 40 miles south of British held Canada) for the attacks against Canada. It started as a camp for the 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment of Vermont and New Hampshire, grew in size.

• Churchill's Battery was on a bluff, overlooking Burlington Bay (now called Battery Park). During winter 1814 with snows, there was overcrowding and increased deaths due to overcrowding, the cold weather, disease. Even the smallest groups of troops suffered. "Several hundred died weekly or 20 died/night.!! The hospital was overcrowded with 900 sick and wounded at times. (Crab Island) The deaths in the winter are theorized as being either influenza or pneumonia.

• Summer, 1813, Battery Park was a more permanent base- called cantonment. This had combination of temporary campgrounds (tents and huts) and a group of larger structures including an armory, artificer’s shop, hospital, magazine, barracks, a guardhouse, officer’s quarters, stable/barn, and a sand and sod earthwork known as “Churchill’s Battery.” Troop levels in Burlington fluctuated throughout the war from several hundred to just over 4,000.the camp also served to detain smugglers, spies, and British or Canadian prisoners of War.

• Sept 6, 1814 Crab Island had an important part in the September Battle of Plattsburg. A military hospital on Crab Island was first established around September 6, 1814,before the Battle of Plattsburgh. Hospital there was rows of tents which were board and canvas, with some log structures. The convalescing soldiers unable to fight were taken to the island before the the battles to protect them. Then later they were transported to in bateaus from Crab Island to a larger hospital at Burlington, Vermont, 25 miles (40 km) across the lake. That should have been a bad trip. U.S. army Surgeon, Doctor James Mann was in charge.. It is said this Both British and Americans were buried in the same grave or mass graves.

• During winter 1814 with snows, Burlington's Battery Park had disease and increased deaths due to overcrowding, the cold weather. Even the smallest groups of troops suffered. Several hundred died weekly or 20 died/night.!! The hospital was overcrowded with 900 sick and wounded at times. (Crab Island) The deaths in the winter are theorized as being either influenza or pneumonia.

Crab Island hospital and burial site for British and Americans..

• Gen. Prevost knew Vermont was not supportive of the war as the southern states were. He knew its citizens traded with the British and supplied them with cattle and military needs for their British ships such as masts and spars. To avoid Vermont being hurt, he sent the army down the western side of Lake Champlain, the New York Side of the lake. The British army crossed into the U.S. at Champlain, New York, with a target of Plattsburgh and a munitions depot.

• Per http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-1812/#h3_jump_8, Governor Gen. Prevost led a formidable effort by the British in 1814 ln his invasion of northern New York, in which Gen, Prevost led 11,000 British veterans of the Napoleonic Wars to Plattsburgh via Lake Champlain. He had taken a route to the west of Lake Champlain to avoid invasion of Vermont. Prevost was not aggressive, as Brock. American Commodore Thomas MacDonough and General Alexander Macomb were successful.. By Sept 11, Prevost withdrew his troops. ^[1]

Regiments

• Lake View Cemetery has dozens of tiny headstones with a small American flags of the soldiers who died of the sickness of the winter of 1814. Many soldiers who died of sickness during the War and some who fought in the Battle of Plattsburgh are buried near here. ^[2]

• 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment

• 26th Regiment, Infantry men from Vermont

• 30th Regiment, Infantry - men from Vermont

• 31st Regiment, Infantry - men from Vermont

The Men

Name	Branch	Rank	Unit
Beardsley, William C.	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Hollenbeck, Abraham	Unknown	Sergeant	Capt Roswell Hunt’s Company
Hollenbeck, Benjamin	Unknown	Unknown	Capt William’s Company
Hollenbeck, John Brownson	Unknown	First Sergeant	Capt Ithiel Stone's Company

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-1812/#h3_jump_8
2. ↑ (http://www.historiclakes.org/Plattsburg/Plattsburg.html)

• http://www.historiclakes.org/Plattsburg/Plattsburg.html)

• http://www.historiclakes.org/explore/murrays_raid.htm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Vermont

• http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmsc/libguide/Burlington_Warof1812.pdf

• http://www.historiclakes.org/explore/murrays_raid.htm

• Ansley, Norman and Adams, Richard K. Vergennes, Vermont, and the War of 1812 (Severna Park, Maryland: brooke Keefer Limited Editions, c1999) FHL Book 974.35 V1 M2

• http://archive.org/stream/100greatbattleso00krem#page/326/mode/2up

• http://www.accessgenealogy.com/vermont-genealogy

• http://www.historiclakes.org/Plattsburg/Plattsburg.html

• Archeology and Identification of Soldiers buried in War of 1812

• Clark, Byron, editor. ’’A List of Pensioners of the War of 1812’’ (Research Publication Co., Burlington, VT, 1904)

• Frost, Josephine C. and Louise Mary Blakeney Fisher, Adele Sabin Blakeney, Peronne Whittake and Daniel Whipple Church Ancestors of Benjamin Ferris Blakeney and his wife Stella Peronne Sabin : showing lines of descent from the Belden, Fenner, Greene, Montague, Northup, Seymour, Waldron and Whipple families; also the life of Daniel Whipple Church, written by himself, giving an account of the struggle for independence in Vermont, and of the War of 1812 along the St. Lawrence River FHL Film 6052859

• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/289537-redirection

• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/289537-roster-of-soldiers-in-the-war-of-1812-14

• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/289537-roster-of-soldiers-in-the-war-of-1812-14

• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Vermont_in_the_War_of_1812

• Johnson, Herbert T. ’’Space:Roster of soldiers in the War of 1812-1814 (Messenger Press, St. Albans, VT, 1933)

• Vermont. Adjutant General’s Office. Roster of Soldiers in the War of 1812–14. St. Albans, Vermont: Messenger Press, 1933. (Family History Library book 974.3 M2vr; film 1421722, item 6.) This source lists each Vermont soldier’s name, unit, dates of service, and source of the information. Some entries give residence and rank, widow’s first name, and the pension certificate number.

• http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/genealogicalrecordswarof1812.htm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vermont#Admission_to_the_Union

• http://www.archives.gov/research/military/war-of-1812/1812-discharge-certificates/units-subunits.html