After the battle, Ephraim Brank returned to Greenville, the county seat of Muhlenberg, Kentucky. His comrades from the battle told of him standing atop the battlements of Chalmette plantation, southeast of New Orleans and gunning down the British as calmly as if he were bagging squirrels in western Kentucky.
Two soldiers kept loading and reloading rifles and handing them to the 24-year-old soldier. He never missed, or so it is told.
Branl later became a lawyer, land surveyor and a farmer.
There is a Brank Street in Greenville and a live-sized bronze statue at the veterans Mall at the court. His rifle reportedly used that day outside of New Orleans is also there.
His statue is the only War of 1812 one in Kentucky.
--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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