Person:Henry Renick (6)

Research Notes

• Col. Henry Renick led a mounted Regiment from Barren County, Ky. against the Great Indian Tecumseh In the war of 1812

1. ↑ Henry Renick, in Stevens, Walter Barlow. Missouri, the center state, 1821-1915. (Washington [District of Columbia]: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1990)
   3:540.

   ... She [Elizabeth Renick] was a daughter of Henry and Prudence (Hall) Renick, natives of Virginia, while both their parents were natives of Wales. Henry Renick was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was in Johnson's division of Harrison's army at the battle of Thames, Canada, when the famous Indian chief, Tecumseh, was killed. ...

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Colonel Henry Renick, in Young, Bennett Henderson. The Battle of the Thames: in which Kentuckians defeated the British, French, and Indians, October 5, 1813 : with a list of the officers and privates who won the victory. (Louisville, Ky.: J.P. Morton and Co., printers to the Filson Club, 1903)
   150.

   COLONEL HENRY RENICK.
   In the very earliest years of the last century, Henry Renick came to Barren County from Maryland, and acquired a large landed estate near Hisevile.
   He was active in the militia, and early in the War of 1812 raised a battalion of mounted men, which served in Illinois. The battalion was sworn into service September 18, 1812, to remain until November 4th of that year. His command consisted of three companies recruited in Barren and adjoining counties.
   When Governor Shelby made his appeal to Kentuckians to avenge the massacre of Raisin and Fort Meigs, Major Renick was quick to respond, and at Urbana, on the organization of Governor Shelby's army, he was made colonel of the fifth regiment, composed of Wickliffe's company from Nelson, Hornbeck's of Bullitt, Moss's of Green, Kinson's of Adair, and Robertson's of Washington. Captain William R. McGrary's company was subsequently added to the regiment, when the army had reached Portage.
   About 1820, Colonel Renick removed to Missouri. The records in Barren County show numerous transfers of land after his leaving Barren, but do not indicate in what part of Missouri he resided.
   He and Colonel Taul are the only colonels in the battle who sleep in death outside Kentucky.
   The material in the regiment of Colonel Renick was of the best class of men from Nelson, Green, and Bullitt, and were among the best fighting men who went into the campaign.
   He was thrice elected to the legislature from Barren, in 1806-15-18. ...