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...