Charles Wesley FLOWERS and the War of 1812
State of residence of soldier: Virginia
Comments:
Charles Wesley Flowers was a private in the Company of Artillery commanded by Captain John Morgan in the Regiment of Virginia Volunteers commanded by Colonel Thomas Baloo in the War of 1812: That his services commenced on or about the first day of August 1814 for the term of 6 mo. and that he continued in actual service in said war until about the 4th day of January 1815 and that on account of sickness and the near approach of his term of service he was honorably discharged at Camp Holly Springs in Henri o County in the State of Virginia on the said 4th day of January, 1815. Charles further deposes and says that he was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Young of Tennessee Drafted Militia, that he was attached to no Regiment, but served as follows in the war between the United States and the Creek Nation of Indians, in the year 1814, for the term of 6 mo. and continued in actual service in said war for the term four mo. and thirteen days, as follows, to wit, mustered into service at Knoxville in he State of Tennessee, thence marched to Lookout Mountain in the Cherokee Nation, thence back to Camp Baxter under Lieutenant Vinyard for the purpose of building Commissary or Store Houses, and there honorably discharges on the day of May, 1814. P.S. I and others of Charles Wesley Flowers descendants are searching for the names of Charles’s father and mother.
