"During the action, those troops from the more eastern part of the State, unaccustomed to fighting with the Indians, were all the day engaged in making breastwork at the junction of the Kanawha with the Ohio, so that the army, if defeated, should have a secure retreat. Ignorant of how the action would terminate, they worked as if for their lives. and before the day was finished had a strong fortification erected. When the alarm was given that the Indians were near, General Lewis deliberately lighted his pipe, and then coolly gave the orders to his brother, Colonel Charles Lewis, to advance upon them. The soldiers in Colonel Fleming's regiment used a stratagem that proved very effectual. They concealed themselves behind trees, and then held out their hats, which the Indians mistakenly shat at. The hat being at once dropped, the Indian would run out from his covert to scalp his victim, and thus met a sure death from the tomahawk of his adversary. The whites in this action being all backwoodsmen, were more successful marksmen that the savages; a fact in part owing to the want of the mechanical skill in the Indians, requisite to keeping their rifles in order. At the close of the action, the Indians went off hallooing as if coming on to renew the attack. This stratagem deceived the whites, and enabled them to retreat in more safety. They recrossed the Ohio on rafts, three miles above, near the old Shawnee town."

George L. VanBibber, NSAR# 015218,
Armfield F. VanBibber, NSAR#034977,
George L. VanBibber IV, NSAR#113361,
Isaac VanBebber, born 1725 in MD, died 10 Oct 1774 VA, Serve: Pvt VA

 

NOTES FOR A. J. VAN BIBBERGERMAN ARMY = MEXICAN WAR = REGULAR ARMY = CIVIL WAR
Military marker ...............................B: A-9-10

A. J. VAN BIBBER
CO G - 2 IND L.A.
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ISA-5: ANDREW J. VAN BIBBER
PVT - CO. .. 2ND REG LIGHT ARTILLERY - 3 yrs.
ENR: 1 Sep 1861 - Capt Rabb - Indpls - Age 44
MUS: 1 Sep 1861 - Lt. Col. Wood - Indpls

TERRELL: Vol 7 pg 608 - ENL MEN - 2ND BATTERY LT ART:
ANDREW J. VAN BIBBER - Res: Shelbyville IND

MUS: 1 Sep 1861
TRANSFERRED TO V.R.C. - 10 Oct 1865
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GAR NO. 62 - A. J. VAN BIBBER - Cooper - Edinburg
b: Ohio
ENT GAR: 14 Jul 1884 - Age 71
ENT SERV: 28 Aug 1861 - PRI CO G - 2 IND ARTY
DIS: 28 Aug 1864 - PRI CO G - 2nd IND - 36 mo.
CAUSE OF DISCHARGE - Expiration of term

OBIT: Franklin REPUBLICAN - Fri 11 Mar 1892 p 8 - Edinburg item:
A. J. VAN BIBBER, aged about 82 years, died Wedns. morning at 4 o'clock. He had been in failing health. He served a term in the German Army, was a Mexican soldier, and served 3 years as a volunteer, and five years in the regular army -- in all about 15 years as a soldier. He was wounded several times, but not seriously. He was a man firm in his beliefs, and skeptical on religious matters. He drew a pension for his wounds, but was in moderate circumstances.

Among the old soldiers before the pension board yesterday was ANDREW VAN
BIBBER of Edenburg who is in his 74th year. The old gentleman was in almost fourteen years of war for his country, fighting Indians on the frontier, in the Mexican War, and in the rebellion. He bears many battle scars. He related one instance where he and twenty-seven comrades, while acting as a surveying party in Oregon in 1849 with KIT CARSON as a guide -- they were compelled to live three months on dog meat and dog soup. He is a very intelligent gentleman, and his stories are far more interesting than those found in a book.

Source: Gary R. Hawpe
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BOUNTY LAND FILE OF PETER VAN BIBBER

Peter VanBibber served as a Private in Captain Benedict Bacon's Company, 16^th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, War of 1812. This company was designated at various times as Captain George Bishop's and Captain Benedict Bacon's Company.
The following is from the Bounty Land File of Peter VanBibber. It was received from the National Archives.
Know all men by these present that I Peter VanBibber of the County of Philips and State of Arkansas do constitute, nominate, empower and appoint William H. Hamilton, Esquire of the City of Washington, D.C., my Agent and Attorney in fact with plenary powers to receive the land warrant due me from the United States for my service in the War of 1812, said warrant being due under the provisions of the Act passed September 28, 1850, hereby satisfying what my said agent and attorney may do in the premises in as full and complete a manner as if I were present and to do the same myself.
Given under my hand and seal the 5^th day of September 1851 at Sterling, Philips County, State of Arkansas.
/s/ Peter Vanbibber
Attest: W.M. Martin and Samuel Royall.
Sworn and subscribed before me, the 5^th day of September 1851.
/s/ M.W. Allen
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CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, That Robert Vanbever, a Sergeant of Company A, Fourth Regiment of Kentucky, Infantry, Volunteers, who was enrolled on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight, at Middlesboro, Kentucky, to serve two years was Honorable Discharged from the service of the United States on the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by reason of muster out of the company.
This Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, "to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharged," to honorably discharged officer or enlisted man or their widows, upon evidence that the original discharge certificate has been lost or destroyed, and upon the condition imposed by said Act that this certificate "shall not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowances, or as evidence in any other case."

GIVEN at the WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C. this twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
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