Talk:William Ward Duffield

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Politics and government work group.
	This article is supported by the Military work group.

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following to the template call: <!-- B-Class-1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points have appropriate inline citations. --> |B-Class-1=yes/no <!-- B-Class-2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. --> |B-Class-2=yes/no <!-- B-Class-3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. --> |B-Class-3=yes/no <!-- B-Class-4. It is free from major grammatical errors. --> |B-Class-4=yes/no <!-- B-Class-5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. --> |B-Class-5=yes/no Associated task forces (nations and regions): United States military history task force Associated task forces (periods and conflicts): American Civil War task force

	Kentucky Portal William Ward Duffield is within the scope of WikiProject Kentucky, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia. Template Usage • Change Patrol • Articles Requested! • Become a Member • Project Talk
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's importance scale.
	Please explain ratings on the ratings summary page.

Could he be the namesake for Fort Duffield?---- Bedford (talk) 17:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Colonel Duffield commanded the Ninth Michigan Infantry, which constructed Fort Duffield. I have looked thorough some of my files and have found nothing that called it fort anything during the war years. During November 1861, correspondents to the Jackson, MI, and Detroit, MI, newspapers referred to the Headquarters of the Ninth Infantry as “Camp George Duffield.” The Rev. George Duffield, of Detroit, was Colonel Duffield’s father. After the first of December 1861 the Headquarters was referred to as Camp Blair, possibly in anticipation of a visit by Michigan’s governor, Austin Blair. Correspondents continued to call it Camp Blair until March 1862, when the 9th Infantry left the fort.

Charles Bennett’s Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan Infantry discusses the construction of the fort and also calls it Fort Duffield. I seem to recall that it also said the fort was named for George Duffield. I have not looked at that book for a while, so I am relying on memory. I also have copies of letters sent from 9th Michigan soldiers that may refer to the fort by name, but I haven’t looked at them for a while either.

In the mid 1990s, after the town of West Point, KY, began historical preservation of the fort, Fort Duffield was rededicated, to the memory of Colonel William Duffield.--Pat Glesner (talk) 18:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC)