About 70,000 Virginians, mostly militia, served during the war. Virginia militia also served with Gen. William H. Harrison in Ohio in the winter of 1812–1813 and at Baltimore during the siege of ...

In the final year of the war, Mercury remained active in North Carolina’s waters. On Nov. 5, 1814, a newspaper reported Mercury’s capture of a British brig that the cutter sent into Beaufort ...

According to Scire’s ruling, the Maryland militia’s 1st Cavalry Regiment had in effect been federalized during the War of 1812 — summoned out of state duty and into federal service, as ...

After the war, Jackson moved to Tennessee and conducted a political career, but by 1812, he was back in the military. Jackson actually spent most of the War of 1812 fighting not the British, but ...

After spending seven years gathering military records from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., as well as other military and genealogical data, Bilow has released a "War of 1812 Death ...

The Arkansas General Society War of 1812 and the U.S. Daughters of 1812 representatives Ron and Sheila Beatty-Krout, ...

A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional military honor due to protocols dating to the slavery era will be memorialized in a Frederick cemetery this weekend, though not by the ...

Though the War of 1812 ended without a military victor, the clear losers were Native Americans. Ravaged by war, and abandoned after it by the British, tribes east of the Mississippi could no ...

Black War Of 1812 Soldier Finally Recognized As Veteran—152 Years After His Death Samuel A. Neale served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812.

New York’s War of 1812 does much to expose the key role of the state of New York in the war between the United States and Britain in 1812-1814. The most important thing the book does is to bring out ...