Army Officers In The 1845 Detroit City Directory Traveled From Detroit To Missouri

Building At Jefferson Barracks Military Site (St. Louis, Missouri)

Polk's 1845 Detroit City Directory:

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Sibley C C, cap U S army Fort nr Russell

Smith E K, cap U S army, cor Congress and Rivard st

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Jefferson Barracks Sign

"The Detroit Advertiser of the 21st, has a paragraph, noticing the departure of the DeWitt Clinton for the Maumee river, with five companies of the 5th infantry on board, which are also said to be en route for the 'seat of war.'  They go by the Maumee canal to the Ohio river, and thence to Jefferson barracks, unless new orders shall direct them at once to Texas." [Niles' National Register, 30 August 1845]

Company H--Captain E. K. Smith...
Company E--Captain C. C. Sibley...