Lt. Samuel Riddle

Lieutenant, War of 1812.

Enlisted May 20, 1812, age 23. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD5-VBBG

Died in Baton Rouge in 1820; said to be buried in a military cemetary there.

Samuel Riddle 3 (3), a son of William 2 (1), was born in Washington County, Penn. ; was in the American army during the war of 1812; died in 1820, and was buried in the military burying-ground at Baton Rouge, La. No family known.

History of the Ancient Ryedales: And Their Descendants, by Gideon Tibbetts Ridlon

[same man?]

Samuel Riddle, sergeant Light Dragoons, May 20, 1813; exchanged to Fifteenth Infantry in September, 1813; brevet second-lieutenant for gallant conduct in sortie from Fort Erie, Sept. 17, 1814, and second-lieu- tenant, September, 1814; retained December, 1815, in Eighth Infantry; first-lieutenant, August, 1817; captain, April, 1819; company disbanded in June, 1821 ; was sutler at Fort Barrancas in 1821 ; died in 1823.

History of the Ancient Ryedales: And Their Descendants, by Gideon Tibbetts Ridlon

Captain Samuel Riddle, born in Pennsylvania, was originally in the 15th Regiment of U.S. Infantry before being transferred to the new 8th regiment after the war.

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