Replica of James Monroe's Birthplace-- Part 2: Service in the American Revolution and Virginia

James Monroe, still a teenager, joined the 3rd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Hugh Mercer, and served in campaigns led by George Washington in  New York and New Jersey.

"He is our only  president to have  served on active military duty in the Revolutionary War  aside from George Washington," said G. William Thomas, president of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation, in the opening ceremony.

At the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, Monroe sustained a bullet wound to his shoulder and nearly died.  He carried that bullet in his body for the rest of his life. 

Following his military service, Monroe served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress and then was elected by state legislators to be one of the first U.S. senators from Virginia.

Washington appointed him  ambassador to France, and in 1799, he was elected governor of Virginia.

--Brock-Perry

Descendants of Christopher R. Perry-- Part 3: A Rough Rider, Confederate General and Union Naval Officer

**  Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (1858-1908) was a wealthy American socialite and U.S. Representative from New York and second husband to suffragist and socialite Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.

**  William Tiffany (great grandson)  (1868-1898) was 2nd lt. in 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry (Roosevelt's Rough Riders), died of yellow fever shortly after returning to the United States following his service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

**  Matthew Calbraith Perry (1836-1909), son of Captain Perry's daughter Jane Tweedy Perry Butler was an American military leader and politician from South Carolina who served as major general in the Confederate Army in the Civil War, a post-bellum three term U.S. senator and was a major general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.

**  Commander George Washington Rodgers (1822-1863), a grandson of Captain Raymond Perry, and brother of Rear Admiral C.R.P. Rodgers, "was distinguished for his bravery in silencing Fort Sumter and the batteries of Morris Island (Charleston, S.C.)" during the Civil War.

As I Said, Quite the Distinguished Family.  --Brock-Perry

James A. Bayard, Delaware Senator and the Treaty of Ghent

From Wiipedia.

1767-August 6, 1815.

Politician from Wilmington, Delaware.  U.S. Representative and Senator.  As a Federalist, he opposed "Mr. Madison's War" and urged caution as the war approached.  he was particularly concerned with Delaware's lack of preparedness for war in both military and vulnerability of the coast.

On June 17, 1812, he was one of  the 13 U.S. Senators who voted against the declaration of war.  But after the war came, he supported it.

He was the only Federalist to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent.  President Madison afterwards offered him a post as minister to Russia, but Bayard declined it saying that a Federalist could hardly represent a Democratic-Republican government.

He spent several months in Europe, but became sick and died just five days after returning to the United States.

--Brock-Perry