As a young man, he moved to Tennessee where he met and married Rhoda Beal and lived in Memphis.
With the coming of the War of 1812, he enlisted in Andrew Jackson's West Tennessee Militia and was in Thomas McCrory's regiment until 1814. He fought at the Battle of Talladega and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend where he met a young man named Sam Houston and they became friends.
In 1835, he met Sam Houston again in San Antonio where he and his three sons joined Stephen F. Austin's army. The two men renewed their War of 1812 friendship and traded stories.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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