Chambers County AlArchives Military Records.....McGinty, Sr., George Washington 
Indian - Enlistment Georgia Militia
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Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com May 31, 2005, 10:57 am

Seminole War
In 1818, at the age of thirty-two, George Washington McGinty, Sr., later a 
Chambers Co. pioneer, was drafted to serve in the Seminole Indian War in FL. He 
served as a private in Swinney's Co. of the Douglas Bttn. of GA Militia in the 
unit commanded by Capt. David Childs (Index to Volunteer Soldiers in Indian 
Wars and Disturbances, 1815-1858, vol. II, Virgil D. White).  There were 
actually three Seminole wars, and he served in the first one. It was short, 
beginning in December 1817, when Gen. Andrew Jackson received orders to move 
into the area of Spanish-owned FL where fierce Seminole Indians, some 
discontented Creek (referred to as Red Stick Creeks) and groups of escaped 
slaves and vagabonds had been raiding settlements north of the FL/GA border.  
Jackson’s army of backwoodsmen fighters, which included Washington, pursued 
them into northwest FL all the way to Pensacola.  The war was over in 1818. 
Washington was honorably discharged on April 7, 1818.  On November 11, 1850, 
when he was sixty-four years old, he made a declaration for the purpose of 
obtaining Bounty Land under a recent “Act Granting Bounty Land to certain 
Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in military service of the United 
States,” passed on September 28, 1850.  He received forty acres in Chambers 
Co., AL.

On October 27, 1855, at age sixty-nine, he applied for additional bounty land 
under the act approved on March 3, 1855.  He was granted an additional 120 
acres for a total of 160 acres. 



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