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Congressional Gold Medal Recipient
Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby b. near North Mountain, Frederick, Maryland, 11 December 1750
d. Traveler's Rest, Lincoln, Kentucky, 18 July 1826
Saturday, 4 April 1818 Resolution directing medals to be struck, and, together with the thanks of Congress, presented to Major General Harrison, and Governor Shelby; and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Major General William Henry Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late governor of Kentucky, and, through them, to the officers and men under their command, for their gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under Major General Proctor, on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, capturing the British army, with their baggage, camp equipage and artillery; and that the President of the United States be requested to cause two gold medals to be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to General Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late Governor of Kentucky. 3 Stat. 476 Governor of Kentucky: 1792 - 1796, 1812 - 1816. Military Service: Lord Dunmore's War, Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Shelby gained his initial military experience in Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolution. During the Revolution; in 1774, served at the Battle of Point Pleasant; 1776, appointed captain of a company of militia by the Virginia committee of safety; 1777, appointed by Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia commissary of supplies for a body of militia detailed to garrison frontier posts; 1778, aided in furnishing supplies for the Continental Army, and for General McIntosh's expedition against Detroit; 1779, provided boats and supplies for General George Rogers Clark's Illinois campaign; 1780, commanded a company, seeing action at Fort Anderson and Musgrove's Mill. He is best remembered as one of the heroes of the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, 7 October 1780. In 1781, fought in various battles, including the capture of the strong British fort at Fair Lawn, in South Carolina. While serving his second term as govern or, in 1813, Shelby raised 3,500 Kentucky troops, which he personally led to join General William Henry Harrison's army. The sixty-two-year-old governor was active at the Battle of the Thames on 5 October 1813, when the British and their Indian allies were decisively defeated, and the Indian leader Tecumseh, was killed.
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