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This 1776 painting of General George Washington shows him as future Knox Countian Cary McClelland would have recognized him. McClelland served under Washington and was an eyewitness to Washington issuing orders.
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Cary McClelland fought in the largest battle of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Long Island. Over 30,000 soldiers were involved in this conflict, and McClelland’s regiment lost 1,000 casualties. McClelland himself survived.
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Long Island was invaded by British (red coat) soldiers and Hessian (blue coat) mercenaries in flat-bottomed long boats, as portrayed in this period sketch by Robert Cleverley. They surrounded McClelland’s Pennsylvania regiment, who had to fight their way out.
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This painting by Emmanuel Leutze dramatizes General George Washington’s bold nighttime crossing of the treacherously icy Delaware River with a small force. Private Cary McClelland was one of the troops in the other boats.
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Washington and Lafayette are shown here at Valley Forge, where the army survived a brutal winter. Cary McClelland was among those who survived, but when his enlistment was up in April, he took his discharge and went home to Maryland. He later moved to Pennsylvania, then to Knox County, Ohio.
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Cary McClelland, Sr., is buried in the Bell Church Cemetery, in the southeastern corner of Morgan Township, between Utica and Martinsburg.
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Cary McClelland was one of the 2,400 soldiers involved in the daring Christmas Day attack on Trenton, where a garrison of Hessian mercenaries was seized.
GALLERY: George Washington & Cary McClelland
