The U.S. Army built a series of forts in Ohio to counter Native American resistance. Lieutenant Daniel Bradley arrived at Fort Jefferson in October, 1791.
The Way Public Library recently came into a journal kept by Lieutenant Daniel Bradley, a Northwest Indian War veteran. He came to Ohio with the U.S. Army in 1791, in efforts to make the area safe as Native tribes were resisting white settlement. We left off Part 1 with Lieutenant Bradley arriving to help General St. Clair build Fort Jefferson, 70 miles north of present-day Cincinnati. It is Octobe…
