Who is this Major General Wells of Kentucky?
From a book “Kentucky Gazette 1801 – 1820” Green – Gateway Press:
Tuesday, January 7, 1812
“A letter to President James Madison from Gov. William Henry Harrison regarding the
late battle at the Wabash mentions Capt. Dubois, Maj. Gen. Wells of Kentucky, Maj. Floyd,
Capt. Baen (killed), Lt. Col. Luke Decker (wounded), Col. Spier Spencer (killed), Capt.
Parke, Capt. Barton, Capt. Geiger, Capt. Cock, Capt. Wentworth, Lieut. Peters, Capt.
Smelling, Capt. Prescott, Maj. Daveiss (killed), Capt. Snelling, Capt. Warwick (killed),
Capt. Spencer (killed), Capt. Robb, Capt. Posey, Lieut. Albright, Capt. Scott, Capt.
Wilson, Capt. Cook, Lieut. Larebee, Col. Boyd, Maj. Clark, George Croghan, Maj. Redmon,
Col. Joseph Bartholomew (wounded), Maj. G.R.C. Floyd, Lieut. Hawkins, Capt. Brown, Capt.
Norris, Capt. Hargrove, Capt. Wilkins, Capt. Parke, Maj. Hurst, Maj. Taylor, Lieut. Adams,
Capt. Peatt, Col. Abraham Owen, Lieut. Richard M’Mahan (killed), Lieut. Thomas Berry
(killed), Dr Edward Scull of Indiana (wounded), Adj. James Hunter (wounded). The
following were wounded: Capt. !
W.C. Bean (died), Lieut. George P. Peters, Lieut. George Gooding, Ensign Henry Burchstead,
Capt. Jacob Warrick (died), Capt. John Norris, Capt. Frederick Guiger.”
Margaret Mays Hasson