ohio frontier – Noel B. Poirier

A Fort Laurens Soldier’s Life and Death

Fort Laurens as it looked in the 1920s. (Source: ohiomemory.org)

Many of us are familiar with the many struggles faced by the short-lived garrison at Fort Laurens. Rather than focus on that, I thought I would look at the life, and death, of one soldier in particular. He was a Virginian and his name was Private George Osborne. This branch of the Osborne family hasContinue reading “A Fort Laurens Soldier’s Life and Death”