.: Federal Troops on the Niagara Frontier :.            The Buffalo Barracks              .: 1837-1846 :. Home The Patriots' War Chronicle Personal Tributes Historical Facts Contribute Info    "Descriptive & Historical Enlistment Registers" of 1,690 Regular U.S. Army Soldiers who served at Buffalo:   A B C D E  F G H I J  K L M N O  P Q R S T  U V W X Y Z  1st Artillery 1st Infantry 2nd Artillery 2nd Infantry Dragoons 3rd Artillery 3rd Infantry 4th Artillery 4th Infantry 5th Infantry 6th Infantry 8th Infantry Unspecified Deaths K.I.A. Sergeants Corporals Artificers Musicians Stewards Wounded Rejections Desertions Drummed Out Aliens Soldiers at Fort Niagara NYS Volunteers 1838 Roster NYS Militia Orders Jan-Mar 1838    Click on this ex-Artificer's "Soldiers Book" to view its entire contents; dating from 1839 to 1844.    Officers listed according to rank while serving at Buffalo:  Clickable Names For Portraits / Memoirs   Joel R. Poinsett Sec. of War in 1837 COMMANDANTS Col. William Lindsay - died Sept. 15, 1838 Col. Ichabod B. Crane - Sept. & Oct. 1838 Col. James M. Bankhead - Oct. 1838 - Aug. 1841 Col. Bennett Riley - Aug. 1841 - Mid 1845 COLONELS James Duncan William Jenkins Worth Henry Whiting - QM MAJORS Richard A. Zantzinger J. E. Backens Matthew M. Payne Robert C. Wood - Post Surgeon Clement A. Finley - Asst. Surgeon John L. Gardner CAPTAINS George Croghan    Francis Taylor    Charles Ferguson Smith    Michael M. Clarke    G.L. Drake    Edmund A. Ogden Frederick R. Smith    George C. Westcott    William G. Williams    William D. Frazer    James D. Greene William C. DeHart    James H. Stokes    George Wright    J.W. Miller    D.H. Clinton    Robert F. Clary - also Captains: Truscott, Russell, and Barnum LIEUTENANTS William A. Nichols   Lucious H. Allen   William Hays   Hannibal Day   Arnold Elzey (Jones)   John Sedgwick   John F. Roland   J. H. Simpson J.R.D. Burnett   Henry J. Hunt   Augustus A. Gibson   Henry L. Kendrick   Andrew A. Humphreys   Lewis G. Arnold   Edmund Schriver   Robert Allen Horace Brooks   Lucious Pitken   Leslie Chase   Arthur B. Lansing   T.B. Ridgely   H.C. Bratt   Charles B. Daniels   William Armstrong Muscoe Shackleford   John C. Casey   Roland A. Luther   William B. Blair   Joseph W. Anderson   Edwin R. Long   William Alburtis Alexander S. McComb   Charles S. Hamilton   John Martin   Edward Murrey   Julios Heyden   William Hoffman   Silas Casey Samuel P. Heintzelman   John P. O'Brien   R. A. Suthed   Israel C. Woodruff   James R. Soley   Charles F. Wooster   Edward D. Townsend William W. Chapman   William F. Barry   L. Mackensie   John C. Pemberton   Jefferson C. Davis   John M. Washington   John W. Phelps Samuel J. Bransford   Frederick Steele   -also Lieutenants: Burnett, Canby, Kello, Morgan, and Woodbridge Copyright © 2006-2014 BUFFALONET.org. All rights reserved.