Colonel with the 42nd Virginia Regiment in the War of 1812. His portrait hangs in the Pittsylvania County Courthouse in Chatam, Virginia.
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Rev War
At twelve years of age he was employed as an express by the military commandant at Halifax, where he then lived, to convey general orders forwarded to him by General Lafayette, for the commandant at Pittsylvania, ordering troops to the rendezvous near Irvine's Ferry, for the purpose of aiding General Greene, then actively retreating before the advancing columns of Cornwallis. He delivered the orders, the troops marched promptly, Green crossed the Dan in safety, and Cornwallis, chagrined at his escape, wheeled about and returned into North Carolina. He was commissioned as captain of militia in the One Hundred and First Pittsylvania regiment in July, 1791. Source: Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register (1 January-1 July, 1960), Frances Vincent (1860).ing between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Print.
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Rev War
At twelve years of age he was employed as an express by the military commandant at Halifax, where he then lived, to convey general orders forwarded to him by General Lafayette, for the commandant at Pittsylvania, ordering troops to the rendezvous near Irvine's Ferry, for the purpose of aiding General Greene, then actively retreating before the advancing columns of Cornwallis. He delivered the orders, the troops marched promptly, Green crossed the Dan in safety, and Cornwallis, chagrined at his escape, wheeled about and returned into North Carolina. He was commissioned as captain of militia in the One Hundred and First Pittsylvania regiment in July, 1791. Source: Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register (1 January-1 July, 1960), Frances Vincent (1860).ing between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Print.
Colonel with the 42nd Virginia Regiment in the War of 1812. His portrait hangs in the Pittsylvania County Courthouse in Chatam, Virginia.
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Rev War
At twelve years of age he was employed as an express by the military commandant at Halifax, where he then lived, to convey general orders forwarded to him by General Lafayette, for the commandant at Pittsylvania, ordering troops to the rendezvous near Irvine's Ferry, for the purpose of aiding General Greene, then actively retreating before the advancing columns of Cornwallis. He delivered the orders, the troops marched promptly, Green crossed the Dan in safety, and Cornwallis, chagrined at his escape, wheeled about and returned into North Carolina. He was commissioned as captain of militia in the One Hundred and First Pittsylvania regiment in July, 1791. Source: Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register (1 January-1 July, 1960), Frances Vincent (1860).ing between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Print.
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Rev War
At twelve years of age he was employed as an express by the military commandant at Halifax, where he then lived, to convey general orders forwarded to him by General Lafayette, for the commandant at Pittsylvania, ordering troops to the rendezvous near Irvine's Ferry, for the purpose of aiding General Greene, then actively retreating before the advancing columns of Cornwallis. He delivered the orders, the troops marched promptly, Green crossed the Dan in safety, and Cornwallis, chagrined at his escape, wheeled about and returned into North Carolina. He was commissioned as captain of militia in the One Hundred and First Pittsylvania regiment in July, 1791. Source: Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register (1 January-1 July, 1960), Frances Vincent (1860).ing between the 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860. Print.
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