Duncan McArthur of Ohio: War Record

From Wikipedia.

June 14, 1772 to April 29, 1839

Military officer and politician from Ohio.

When he first became a representative, he was in the Ohio state militia and later was appointed a brigadier general in the U.S. Army.

McArthur was appointed a colonel of Ohio volunteers and was second in command to General William Hull at Fort Detroit.  (This is when he commanded the Scioto Valley Volunteers which I have written about already.) He and Col. Lewis Cass were not at Detroit when Hull surrendered and were greatly angered that Hull had surrendered, especially in that they were included in the surrender.

McArthur is said to have torn off his epaulettes and broken his sword in a fit of rage when they heard.  But historians have said similar things about other American officers with Hull.  The British paroled him and returned him to Ohio.

 He later commanded a brigade under Gen. William Henry Harrison during the Battle of the Thames.  After Harrison's resignation, he commanded the Army of the Northwest and did so until 1817.

He negotiated the Treaty of Fort Meigs of 1817 for peace and land cessions by the Indians.  His burial place is at Grandview Cemetery in Chillacothe, Ohio.

--Brock-Perry