========================================== The Clarksville Historical Society's War Memorial Committee is searching for information on any Clarksville residents killed in wartime. The city of Clarksville, IN -- the "Oldest Anglo-American Town in the Old Northwest" -- was chartered in 1783 by Gen. George Rogers Clark. According to the Southern Indiana Convention and Tourism Bureau's website at Clarksville Tourist Sites General Clark, "in 1778 and 1779 led the campaign which captured the British forts of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes. In recognition of their victory, the Virginia Assembly in 1783 gave Clark and his troops a 150,000-acre land grant at the Falls of the Ohio", 1,000 acres of which became the city of Clarksville. It was at Clarksville that Meriwether Lewis and Gen. Clark's younger brother William embarked on their famous Northwest Expedition. As such an old community, Clarksville obviously will have a large number of residents who died in the years following 1783, including (but not limited to) the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Spanish-American, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, etc. If you have information on any CLARKSVILLE, INDIANA RESIDENTS who died in wartime, please contact: Pat Knight (812) 282-2616 or Jane Sarles jsarles@iglou.com or (812) 949-9338 or send her an Email at: Jane Sarles or Clarksville Historical Society ATTN: War Memorial Committee Clarksville Town Hall 2000 Broadway Clarksville, Indiana 47129 (812) 288-7155