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Title	Robert Yost Diary
Subject	Military Ohio War of 1812 Soldiers
Place	St. Clairsville (Ohio) Barnesville (Ohio) Belmont County (Ohio) Cambridge (Ohio) Guernsey County (Ohio) Lancaster (Ohio) Franklinton (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) Delaware (Ohio) Delaware County (Ohio) Upper Sandusky (Ohio) Wyandot County (Ohio)
Description	Robert Yost, a sergeant in Captain William Stephenson's Company, the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, Ohio Militia, kept this diary of his service in the War of 1812. Yost records his rendezvous with the company in St. Clairsville and documents his observations as he marched. He writes about buying supplies from local residents in Barnesville and camping at Cambridge. In Franklinton (now part of Columbus) Yost writes about meeting Governor Return Jonathan Meigs and seeing 21 of the British prisoners captured by Major George Croghan at Fort Stephenson. In Upper Sandusky, the regiment took command of 300 British troops captured by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie. The diary is 32 pages; the first six pages are included here. It measures 5" x 7.75" (12.7 x 19.69 cm). The United States, angered by British attempts to impress American sailors into the British Navy and fearing the British presence in Canada, declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. William Henry Harrison, commander-in-chief of the Northwestern Army, built Fort Meigs, named for the governor, near present-day Perrysburg. In one of the most significant battles of the war, Colonel Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. The British Captain Robert Barclay surrendered his entire fleet. Harrison learned that Perry had effectively cut the British supply line through Perry's message: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." The War of 1812 destroyed the American Indians' military power and confined them to reservations.
Creator	Yost, Robert
Date of Original	1813 - 1814
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts); VOL 1168
Format	manuscripts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	Text
Date created	2010-10-19

Title	Om1359_1156293_001
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1359_1156293_001.tif
Image Height	1965
Image Width	1308
File Size	719.367 KB
Full Text	Rob't Yost his Book [crossed out word] made for the purpose of noting [caret] down [written above line] our Marching and [crossed out] what we seen and experienct while in the united States service begin ing at St Clears ville Ohio Sept. the third Eighteen hundred and thirteen and Continued to note down as we marcht
Date created	2009-01-15

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