From the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812.
U.S. Army officer, Andrew Holmes, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1782. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in 1799 and moved to Kentucky where he became a merchant.
He was appointed an attorney in Mississippi by his brother, David, the territorial governor, on October 8, 1809, and then established a law practice in Washington, Mississippi and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1812.
When the War of 1812 began, he volunteered for service and received a commission as captain in the 24th U.S. Infantry to command a company of mounted light dragoons. When Louisiana governor William C.C. Claiborne was forced to deal with illegal smuggling by Baratarian pirates, he dispatched Holmes to intervene.
Holmes seized contraband from Jean Lafitte in a raid on November 16, 1812, after a brief engagement and later testified at Lafitte's trial.
--Brock-Perry
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