Yeah...Pretty sure. I'd have to look it up to be 100%--and we're headed out here pretty quick-- but I swear he helped out Andrew Jackson around the time of The Battle of New Orleans; which, as it turned out, was AFTER peace had already been declared back East.
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wow to that last sentence..the communications of the day!
Yea...it could take WEEKS to get messages back and forth between Washington and New Orleans in those days.
I was thinking days! boy am I optimistic!
Yep...weeks. Horseback riders, or sailing ship...No telegraph for another 50+ years....