ISBN-13: 9781547194759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 382 str.
A "redress" is defined as a "remedy to set things right." That is the purpose of this book. Much of what has been written about Fort Amanda during the past 100 years has been a repeat of what others had written before; namely, that Col. Thomas Poage built the fort and named it for his wife, Amanda, that a Captain at the fort was murdered by Indians while gathering grapes in a nearby tree and that war records were destroyed when the British burned government buildings in Washington, D.C. in 1814. None of those claims are true. In the early 1970s, armed with new information, I began a study of Fort Amanda that has spanned 40 years. While the goal of this book is to "redress," the story of Fort Amanda, it's also meant to inform, challenge and inspire others who have a passion for history and who find identifying and honoring the ordinary men and women who made that history, not only personally satisfying, but who also a patriotic duty.