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Elias Darnell

d. 1861

A veteran of the War of 1812, he is remembered for a vivid firsthand account of the River Raisin campaign and the suffering that followed. His writing preserves the experiences of Kentucky volunteers in one of the war’s most tragic episodes.

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A journal containing an accurate and interesting account of the hardships, sufferings, battles, defeat, and captivity of those heroic Kentucky volunteers and regulars, commanded by General Winchester, in the year 1812-13 Also, two narratives, by men that were wounded in the battles on the River Raisin, and taken captive by the Indians

A journal containing an accurate and interesting account of the hardships, sufferings, battles, defeat, and captivity of those heroic Kentucky volunteers and regulars, commanded by General Winchester, in the year 1812-13 Also, two narratives, by men that were wounded in the battles on the River Raisin, and taken captive by the Indians

by Elias Darnell

About the author

His best-known work is A Journal Containing an Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships, Sufferings, Battles, Defeat, and Captivity of Those Heroic Kentucky Volunteers and Regulars, Commanded by General Winchester, in the Years 1812-13. In it, he wrote from personal experience about the River Raisin campaign during the War of 1812, including battle, defeat, and captivity.

Library and catalog records identify him as having died in 1861. Beyond that, the surviving biographical details appear to be limited, but his journal has remained valuable to later readers because it offers a direct, human view of a conflict often remembered through official histories.

His work continues to be preserved by major libraries and public-domain archives, where it stands as an important memoir of early American warfare and frontier hardship.