Webb’s in the Military
Encompassing the following recognized conflicts, among others : Wayne’s
War, 1790-1794; French War, 1799; War of 1812, 18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815;
Seminole War, 1817-1818; Black Hawk War, 1832; Creek War, 1836-1837; Florida War,
1835-1842; Canada Frontier Disturbances, 1838-1839; Pennsylvania Whiskey
Rebellion; Cherokee Removal, 1838; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Civil War,
1861-1865. Including
Officers and Enlisted soldiers of the Militia, Volunteer and Regular Army,
Officers & Sailors of the Navy, and Marines in the Marine Corps.
Compiled by Jonathan Webb Deiss, ©2003. www.webbdeiss.org
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Private Banks Webb : He served
from Maryland. (Revolutionary War)
Private Barnabus Webb, Jr.
: Captain Elmer’s Company, Massachusetts Militia. He may be the same man, under the name Barabus, who applied for
and received a bounty land warrant on 3 May 1848 for 160 acres in Section 26,
Range 36 North 12 East, in Cook County, Illinois. (War of 1812)
Private Barruck Webb : He
was paid a pension through the Ohio Agency, on the pension Act of 1818. Commencing 25 May 1818, he was paid $8 per
month; $48 in March and $48 in September each year.
Sergeant Barzilla (Barrila,
Barzillia) Webb : ...as Private, Adam’s Regiment New York Volunteers; also
Davis’ Regiment New York Militia (War of 1812)
Private Benjamin Webb :
(Revolutionary War)
Private Benjamin Webb :
(Revolutionary War)
Corporal Benjamin Webb :
(Revolutionary War)
Sergeant Benjamin Webb : 1st
Regiment (Cutter’s) Massachusetts Militia (War of 1812)
Private Benjamin Webb : 1st
Regiment (Hobb’s) Massachusetts Militia (War of 1812)
Private Benjamin Webb : He
was enrolled in Captain Levi Bailey’s Company, 3rd Buncombe County North
Carolina Militia during the War of 1812.
Private Benjamin Webb :
Webb, aged 40 years, born in Pennsylvania, was described as standing 5’ 7”
tall, with black eyes, dark hair, a dark complexion, was by occupation a
Miller, when he enlisted 25 June 1814 to Ensign Hopewell at Staunton, Virginia
for a term of five years. He was
assigned to Captain Thomas Sangster’s Company, 12th Regiment United States
Infantry (regulars). He is listed on a
detachment roll dated 8 August 1814 at Staunton, as in Sangster’s Company 3
December 1814, and on returns dated February 1815. He is reported as having
deserted 18 August 1814 at Staunton, Virginia and a detachment roll of
Lieutenant R. Houston’s Company dated 16 February 1815 reports him as absent,
and again 27 March 1815. (War of 1812)
Private Benjamin F. Webb :
Company K, 4th Regiment Kentucky Infantry; Colonel John S. William’s Regiment,
Captain Patrick H. Gardner’s Company; joined and enrolled 28 September 1847, mustered
in 1 October 1847 at Louisville, Kentucky to serve during the War with Mexico;
mustered out 25 July 1848 at Louisville, Kentucky.
He may have applied for and
received a bounty land warrant on 27 September 1854 for 160 acres in Scott
County, Illinois.
Sergeant Bennett Webb :
Bennett Webb was born circa 1796 in Fredericksburg, Orange County, Virginia,
the son of....
Bennett Webb, aged 18 years, born
in Orange County, Virginia was described as standing 5’ 6” tall (and later 5’ 6¼”),
had blue eyes, black hair, a fair complexion, and was by occupation a farmer
when he enlisted 21 August 1814 at York Chester Station to Ensign W. W. Loftin
for a term of five years. The promise of a bounty of $124.00, a land warrant
for 160 acres, which doubled to 320 at the end of the war, and a salary of
$10.00 per month as a Private, had its desired effect. He was assigned to Captain Bradford’s
Company of the (1st) United States Regiment of Rifles (or Riflemen).
There were eventually four of these
‘elite’ units of Riflemen in the army composed of lightly armed infantry. Each was supposed to be comprised of select
veterans and promising recruits, theoretically to form a unit in the tradition
of Washington’s light infantry of the revolution. Intended to fight ‘guerilla’ style like native Americans, they
were trained to snipe at the enemy from behind obstacles, as well as fight in
open formation to harass and demoralize the enemy’s regulars in column with
highly accurate long-range fire directed at officers and battery
positions. To this aim they carried the
excellent Model 1803 Harper’s Ferry flintlock rifled musket and later units
received the Model 1814 flintlock rifled musket; the flint & ammunition was
held in a belly box, shot pouch and powder horn. For close quarters they had no bayonets, but Sergeants wore brass
mounted swords while most all the soldiers carried a scalping knife, which
served double-duty as a hunting knife, and some even carried tomahawks. The uniform consisted of a coat, colored
green with black facings, yellow lace collar, and yellow metal buttons
(horizontal piping radiated out from buttons); non-coms wore epaulettes. They wore green wool overalls in the winter
and tight white linen pants in the summer. Some units wore green linen hunting smocks with fringe. Headgear was the 1813 leather shako which
had in the front a round brass plate stamped ‘Rifles’, and a tall green plume.
On a return
dated 31 August 1814 to October 31 1814 he was marked as present; on a return
from Captain W. C. Parker’s Company dated 31 January 1815 as present; as
‘present sick’ on a return dated 30 April 1815. He was present in Captain Wm. Bradford’s Company on a return
dated 1 December 1815, promoted to Corporal on 3 December 1815 and to Sergeant
11 February 1816. Bennett is marked as
present on returns dated 20 February thru 30 April 1816, 30 June thru 31 August
& 31 October 1816. He transferred
from Captain Bradford’s Company to Captain Jos. Selpen’s Company on or about 30
April 1817 although listed on returns from Bradford’s Company and marked as
present 31 December 1817, 28 February 1818, 30 April, 30 June, 31 August, 31
October & 31 December 1818. In
February 1819 he was listed as a Private. Bennett was absent since 5 March 1819 on recruiting duty.
He was at Fort Smith, Arkansas,
‘learning music’ when he was discharged 14 July 1819, where he served in the
same unit with a man named John Webb (also a Private). He reenlisted as a veteran.
He was listed as 23 years old,
born in Virginia and described as standing 5’ 8” tall (two inches taller than
when measured at his first enlistment), with blue eyes, black hair and a fair
complexion when he reenlisted 14 July 1819 at Fort Smith, Arkansas to his
company commander, Captain J. W. Bradford for a term of five years. He was again assigned to Company A, Regiment
of United States Rifles. On a roll
dated 31 August 1819, listed as present; 13 October 1819, listed as ‘on command
detached Captain Bullard’s Company’; 1 March 1820, S. A. M. R.(?); 30 June 1820
to 31 August 1820, S. A. M. R.(?); 31 December to 30 June 1821, listed as
present. He transferred to the 7th
Regiment United States Infantry in 1822, after the reorganization pursuant to
an act of Congress 2 March 1821, when the Rifles Regiment was eliminated and
replaced with standard infantry.
At his third
enlistment in 1825 he was 28 years old. He gave his birthplace as Fredericksburg, (Orange County), Virginia; was
described as standing 5’ 11” tall (3” taller than in 1819), with blue eyes,
dark hair, a light complexion and was by occupation a laborer when he was
enrolled by Lieutenant Johnson at Fort Smith, Arkansas for a term of five
years. He was assigned to Company H,
7th Regiment United States Infantry (regulars), under command of Colonel
Matthew Arbuckle. In June 1829 he was
detailed as an express to carry letters from Colonel Arbuckle at Fort Smith to
Samuel C. Roane, District Attorney, at Cotton Wood, Arkansas Territory. He was discharged 10 January 1830 at
Cantonment Gibson, Oklahoma Territory by reason of expiration of term of
service. Cantonment Gibson, renamed
Fort Gibson in 1832, was a wooden stockade fort, built in 1824 by order of
Colonel Arbuckle and located on the Grand River, three miles upstream from the
convergence of the Arkansas, Grand and Verdigris Rivers. A cantonment is a temporary billet for
soldiers.
He applied
for a bounty land warrant under the ScripWarrant Act of 1812 for 160 acres
which he located in Jackson County, Arkansas on 14 March 1828; this land was unfit
for farming, was relinquished back to the government and he reapplied for a new
patent. The new warrant under the same
Act of 1812 was applied for patent on 17 September 1831, for 160 acres and was
located in Township 6 North Range 3 East of St. Francis County, Arkansas. He purchased land in Crawford County
(Section 28), on 10 November 1830; 108.17 acres by cash-entry sale. Throughout the 1830’s he purchased land in
Crawford & Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.
1840 Federal
Census. Upper Township, Crawford
County, Arkansas
Bennett
Webb, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0 (no free or enslaved colored), 5 total, 2 in agriculture
Bennet Webb : Bennet Webb’s
widow, Elizabeth Webb, applied for pension on 10 March 1887 from North
Carolina, (widow2274). (Mexican War)
1850 Federal Census. The North side of ..., Wayne County, North
Carolina
371/371, Bennet Webb, 54, Male,
White, Carpenter, na, North Carolina
371/371, Lucy Webb, 39, Female,
White, na, na, North Carolina, cannot write
371/371, Susan Webb, 20, Female,
White, na, na, North Carolina
371/371, William Webb, 13, Male,
White, na, na, North Carolina
371/371, Caroline Webb, 10,
Female, White, na, na, North Carolina, in school
371/371, Martha Webb, 7, Female, White,
na, na, North Carolina
Private Benson Webb : 76th
Regiment (Tucker’s) New York Militia (War of 1812)
Private Berry Tully Webb :
Joined and enrolled 27 June 1846 to Captain James Freeman’s Company (B), 3rd
Regiment of the Brigade of Illinois Volunteer Militia. Discharged 3 March 1847 at Matamoras,
Mexico, company discharged 23 May 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He obtained a bounty land warrant for 160
acres, which he located in Shelby County; and a pension 8 June 1887 (s14063),
his widow, Mariah A. Webb applied 5 August 1903 (widow17219).
He was the son of Reverend John
Webb, a preacher of the Separate Baptist persuasion, and Elizabeth Young, both
natives of Tennessee, the father was born in 1792. Berry was born 8 April 1825 in Tennessee, and moved to Shelby
County, Illinois in 1840, locating in Richland Township. On 15 October 1848 he married Maria Ann
Curry, and the couple had three children, John W., Louisa E., & Martha E.. Berry was a Democrat and served as School
Director and Road Commissioner for Richland Township. He died 15 June 1903 and was buried in Ash Grove Cemetery, same
county.
Bounty land warrant – Section 24,
Township 11 North, Range 5 East, Shelby County, warrant for 80 acres, 28 August
1848, ill vol154 p01; Bounty land warrant – Section 13, Township 11 North,
Ramge 5 East, Shelby County, warrant for 80 acres, 28 August 1848, ill vol154
p01;
Private Bolden Webb : Webb,
aged 22 years, born in Halifax, North Carolina, was described as standing 5’ 9”
tall, with hazel eyes, black hair, a dark complexion, and by occupation a
laborer, enlisted 26 August 1846 at (illegible)ddisboro by Lieutenant Andrews
for a term of five years. He served in
Companies D, I, & K, 3rd Regiment United States Artillery. He was discharged 25 August 1851 by reason
of expiration of term of service at Fort Sullivan, on Seavey's Island, in
Eastport, Washington County, Maine; remarks, ‘P. O. Oct 7/51’
1850 Federal Census. Eastport,
Washington County, Maine
Garrison, 489/649, Martin Burke, 50, Male, White, Brevet Colonel, na,
Maryland
Garrison, 489/649, L. Larson, 30, Male, White, 1st Lieutenant, na,
Pennsylvania
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Garrison, 489/649, Bolden Webb, 21, Male, White, Private, na, North
Carolina
Private Burnett Webb :
Company A, Colonel R. T. Paine’s (1st) Regiment North Carolina Volunteers
(Mexican War)
Colonel B. R. Webb : He was
at one time secretary of state of Mississippi, and for some time years before
in the state senate from Pontitoc County; he died at Jackson, Mississippi 16
January 1860, aged about 48 years. His
rank may be honorary.
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