Next, he received a commission in the USMC as a lieutenant, but in 1820, was arrested for caning a naval store keeper. For this, he was tried and suspended from duty for twelve months but with full pay.
In 1824 he served as the commander of the Marine Honor Guard charged with protecting the Marquis de Lafayette in New York City and his tour of the United States.
He also served in the Second Seminole War and the Okefenokee.
He was appointed a brigadier general in the Georgia militia on October 1838 and ordered to chase the Seminoles into the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia.
Death came March 22, 1845.
--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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