Hello Pat, Boy am I glad to hear that someone else had heard of the first 31st!!!!!! My ggg grandfather John HUTCHINSON was also in the 31st US Infantry in the WO1812 - Capt Dickinson's Co as a Private. I sent for and received his Pension file. It was a gold mine of information, but it took 18 months to get because they lost my request, etc - this was several years ago, they have improved. BUT, information about the 31st!!!! DEAD END. I even joined the list for the 31st US Infantry - someone on list told me it was disbanded and then reformed, but no references. It is now somewhat of a polar unit, heavy on the Korean War - the other war called the "Forgotten War". I have tried to find a unit history, dead end, just the modern unit. I sort of dropped the ball on this. John was from Vermont, born in Pomfret in 1795. John Hutchinson also got a land grant - in Hardin County, IL. The family is still nearby. He may have also been in another unit (Capt Burnap's) for a short time and received land in another county - I have gotten nowhere on this. This was during a mysterious first marriage prior to his marriage to my ggg grandmother, where he fell off the map, so to speak. Kathryne