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Among the lot holders of the original city of New Orleans in 1724 we find: La Frenière, Lots 9-69; De Léry, Lots 11-22; Chauvin Beaulieu, Lot 16; Duval d'Epresmeuil, Lot 17.
Louis Chauvin Beaulieu, son of Pierre Chauvin and Martha Autreuil, baptized Montreal, February 17, 1675; killed by the Natchez Indians 1730. Married Charlotte Duval, daughter of Louis Duval d'Epresmeuil and Angelique de Mony.
Beaulieu was the youngest of the three Canadian brothers La Frenière, De Lery and Beaulieu, whose names appear frequently in the history of the early explorations and settlement of Louisiana and the Illinois country.
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Gayarre, Vol. I, p. 444, gives an account of his death :
"De Coulange and Beaulieu had been leaders of exploring parties sent to discover the positions and numbers of the hostile Indians. De Coulange was wounded and Beaulieu was killed, and of the twenty-five men that accompanied them sixteen were killed or wounded."
The name d'Epresmeuil is the correct form, but it was variously spelled, Pregmeny, Preminy, Epresmesil and Epresmenil. In La Harpe, Paris, 1831, p. 377, the name is made to be Duval de Preminy, and on page 381 it is Duval d'Epresmeuil.
NICHOLAS DANEAU SEIGNEUR DE MUY Chevalier St. Louis; Captain of Marines
Jaques Daneau de Mony married Catherine Driot, of the Parish of St. Martin, City of Beauvois, France, and had issue :
I. Nicolas, twin, b. 1651; d. at Havana 1707.
II. Jean, twin, b. 1651; d. at the Tchoupitoulas settlement, near New Orleans, 1723.
III. Angelica, d. in France.
The general family name was variously spelled, Daneau, Danau, Daneaux and Danaux. The name de Mony was the general sur- name of the family which prevailed in Louisiana, but it should probably be written De Muy or De Muys. Indeed, it was fre- quently confounded with de Meuse.
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Nicholas Daneau was Seigneur de Muy, Chevalier and Captain of the marine detachment in the service of France. He dis- tinguished himself in Canada and was appointed to displace Bien- ville as Governor of Louisiana. He married three times in Canada and left there a numerous and distinguished progeny. He had gone to France from Canada and had sailed thence for Louisiana to assume the functions of his office, but died on the way at Havana, Cuba. (See "Dictionaire Genealogique," and Gayarre. Vol. I, p. 116. )
Jean Daneau, Sieur de Mony, received a concession of land on the Tchoupitoulas, near New Orleans, from the Western Com- pany, where he established a Colony. The original grant signed by John Law is now in possession of Mr. Blair, one of the executors of the Hutchinson estate. It was presented to Mr. Hutchinson by the late Theodore J. Dimitry, whose heirs are now in possession of various commissions of Daneau's son and grandson, in all of which they are in every case called Sieur de Mony without any prenomen.
Jean de Mony had been Captain and Chief of Staff in the Cavalry of de Lisle Duviger. He had been married to Elizabeth Jenicot at Dionaus in France. Their son Michael François de Mony was born in 1701 and was later in the military service of Louisiana. His godfather and godmother, as appears from the baptismal certificate, were Charles François Pandely and Miss Anne Patigny.
The given name of his grandson is not known. The baptismal certificate referred to is in possession of the heirs of Theodore J. Dimitry, as are the commissions. The baptismal document was issued July 23, 1710, and is signed by Philip St. Lor Louis Errard, Curé de Dionaus.
Mr. E. T. Manning, of New Orleans, deceased, had in his possession miniatures of the twins, Nicolas and Jean. The former has about his neck the ribbon of a Cavalier.
Louis Duval d'Epresmenil married Angelica Daneau de Mony. They had issue :
1. Charlotte Duval d'Epresmeuil.
"MM. Randot, Laudirisio, Duval de Preminy, Morin and d'Artaguette were the heads of the Auditing Department of Louisiana in 1724." (La Harpe, p. 377.) On page 381 La Harpe
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while uttering complaints against the public officers, speaks ap- provingly of "MM. Randot and Duval d'Epresmeuil" and praises them for their equity and probity.
The efforts made to determine the date and place of death of Duval d'Epresmeuil have not been successful. He is supposed to have returned to France. One of his descendants died on the political scaffold during the French revolution.
"Epresmeuil (Jean Jaques Duval), Councillor of the Parlia- ment of Paris, born in Pondicherry, died on the Revolutionary scaffold in 1794." (Records.)
Francis Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, born at Biloxi, now on the shore of Mississippi Sound, then within the jurisdiction of the province of Louisiana and for a while the seat of the Colonial Government ; died (at the Tchoupitoulas settlement, above the City of New Orleans, which then extended only to Canal Street) October 1, 1802. He was a freeholder (franc tenancier). having inherited the freehold of his father. He was the son of Louis Chauvin Beanlieu and Charlotte Duval d'Epresmeuil. Married Marianne de la Lande d'Apremont, born at Fort St. Louis (old Mobile), afterwards Fort Condé, daughter of Captain Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont (son of Pierre de la Lande Gazon and Thérèse Jucherand), baptized Beaufort, Canada, July 12, 1685; burned at the stake by the Chicasaw Indians, Sunday, June 6, 1736; and Malanta Talya, born on the Alabamon River about 1692, at a village called Autega, in the Alabamon Nation, and died on the back bay of Biloxi in the winter of 1752.
Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont had come with d'Artaguette from the Illinois country to meet the expedition of Bienville against the Chickasaws. He was captured with others, and after the defeat of Bienville was burned at the stake. "Claiborne's History of Mississippi" has a graphic account of this tragedy.
The seat of government of the Colony was at Old Mobile ( Fort St. Louis), in 1702-1711. Malanta Talya, then fifteen years of age, was brought a captive to the fort with her brother, an Alaba- mon chief, by the victorious Choctaws. Captain Pierre de la Lande, enraptured with her beauty, had her placed under the care of the Sisters and afterwards married her. Malanta means bright, lambent, like moonlight on a pond of still water. Talya is a Spanish form of the Indian word for palmetto and also pond lily,
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with a slightly different inflection. Malanta was also called Mee- a-mee, or Miami. Her brother, who was brought with her to Fort St. Louis, was called the Alabamon Mingo, or Alabamon Chief, "mingo" meaning "chief." Her Indian name was "Octcha- houma-tchula," meaning "The Sleepless Red Fox." He was adopted into the Choctaw nation and made their second chief, "Red Shoes" being their head chief.
MICHAEL DRACOS Born, 1739, Athens, Greece; died, 1821, New Orleans, La.
ARMS OF THE DRACOS FAMILY
A lion rampant, the fore paw resting on a broken column. Motto (Greek, translated) -Be astonished at nothing.
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Alabamon Mingo was a notable historical character of colonial times. He was a man of great intelligence and strength of char- acter, and the honorable alliance between his sister and the colonial officer made him the faithful and energetic friend of the French. He grew rapidly in power and influence by his fearless valor and intelligence as chief of the Choctaws, and controlled in a measure not only his own nation, the Alibamon, but also the Creeks and Muscogees. The Alibamons, owing to their proximity to the English settlements, had been inclined to hostility with the French, and this cloud of distrust the influence of Alibamon Mingo dis- pelled.
He was the diplomatie agent of Bienville in his dealings with the various Indian tribes, it being Bienville's object to keep the tribes which were friendly to the French, friendly with each other. He was the chief organizer of the force of "Indian auxiliaries." This was not an easy task, owing to the opposition of the head chief, "Red Shoes," who was inclined to an alliance with the English.
Alibamon Mingo held his power and influence successfully until the triumph of the Chicasaws over Bienville and the death at the stake of Captain Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont, the husband of his sister. Then worn out with wounds and stunned . with perpetual strife, he took his sister, leaving her infant daughter in the charge of the Sisters, and retired to his cabin on the back bay of Biloxi, and died shortly after.
Francis Chauvin Beaulien de Montplasir married Marian de la Lande d'Apremont. They had issue :
I. Marie Françoise de Montplasir, born in the City of New Orleans, May 1, 1755, and died in New Orleans, Jan. 15, 1822. She married at the Cathedral, St. Louis. New Orleans, in 1775, Michael Dracos, a merchant of New Orleans and a native of Athens, Greece.
II. Robert de Montplasir, d. unmarried.
Michael Dracose, or Michael Dracos, was born at Athens, Greece. in 1739. He was the son of Antonio Dracos and Clino Hellenes. He died in New Orleans, March 10, 1821. Married (1955) Marie
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Françoise Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, known as M. de Mont- plasir, who was born in New Orleans, May, 1755, and died in New Orleans, Jan. 14, 1822. They had issue :
I. Louise Dracos, b. 1776; died young.
II. Marianne Celeste Dracos, b. N. Orleans, March 1, 1727. married, Oct. 29, 1799, Andrea Dimitry, a merchant of New Orleans; d. New Orleans, April 22, 1856.
This worthy and wealthy merchant of New Orleans came to the city when young and full of the energy of a pioneer in a new coun- try. He served in the company of artillery, attached to the regi- ment of Antonio Gilberto de St. Maxent, Colonel in the regular Spanish Army, in command of the Louisiana provincial militia, in the victorious campaign, of Don Fernando de Galvez, Governor of Louisiana, for the Spanish King, against the English, in West Florida, at the period of the American War of Independence. He served in those campaigns as second sergeant of his company. He was promoted during the campaign to be first sergeant, and later commissioned a lieutenant, by Charles II, King of Spain, upon the recommendation of Baron de Corondelet. He was assigned to the regiment of Don Almonaster de Roxas, in command of the standing provincial militia.
HISTORICAL.
Spain, having exhausted her efforts of mediation between the French and Americans on one side, and the English on the other. joined actively in the alliance against the British, in 1779. At that time Galvez issued his proclamation to the people of Louisiana, announcing and declaring the independence of the United States of America. With all the forces at his command, and assisted by a few Americans, he commenced a campaign against the British posts. He appeared before Fort Manchac, and carried its works by assault, Sept. 7, 1779. St. Maxent and his men were the first to enter the embrasures. Baton Rouge capitulated Sept. 21, 1779. and its surrender involved that of Natchez. Gayarre says, "The Louisiana Militia behaved with extraordinary fortitude and discipline." A Spanish report gives special praise to the artillery with which Michael Dracos served, in the following words :
"The militia performed all their duties with inexpressible zeal, and in every labor, and in the service of the guns, gave constant proof of unlimited discipline."
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In the campaign of 1280 Galvez met with equal success. Mobile capitulated on March 14, and General Campbell made his inglori- ous retreat to Pensacola. Michael Dracos shared in the glories of the brave Louisianians. Again, in 1781, the campaign was reopened, and Pensacola was forced to capitulate to the ever- victorious Galvez; again was Michael Dracos with the Louisiana Artillery. "The fortifications were gallantly defended, but a magazine having been exploded by the fire of the Louisiana Artillery, the British forces were forced to capitulate, May 9, 1781. This capitulation involved the surrender of all West Florida. The value of these movements, in behalf of what General Washington called the common cause, can be adequately comprehended through a persual of Washington's Letters, Volume IV, pages 476 to 478.
General Washington expressed an earnest confidence in the at- tachment of Bernard de Galvez, to the American cause, in eloquent terms. (See Volume VIII, page 176, letter of Count de Ver- gennes, footnote, Writings of Washington; also Volume VII, page 92; also note p. 157.)
Michael Dracos was an American citizen at the time of his death. In England his name would be Draco, being that of the great Athenian law maker. His mother was Clino Hellen, or Hellenes. Hellen was the name of him who was the son of Deucalion, the Noah of Grecian mythology, who gave origin to the Hellenes, or Greeks. Clino, in the feminine, means "Incline," "Yield," and is a Greek given name. Michael Dracos died March 10, 1821, in New Orleans. His body and that of his wife rest in the same tomb, in the old St. Louis Cemetery, Saratoga St., New Orleans. The exact date of his coming to America is not known, but it was before 1764, as is shown by his warrant of promotion. He was still an officer of the militia when the territory of the province of Louisiana was transferred from France to the United States, and took part in the ceremonies attending the cession. Under the terms of the treaty, he became an American citizen without further action.
Nicolas Drussakis married Mary (surname not known). Issue : I. Drussakis, whose given name was Drussus.
11. Irene, who became the wife of M. Yori, and resided in Smyrna in 1994, having at that time two boys and two girls.
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Anthony Yrronsities and Garfalina, his wife (surname not known), had issue :
I. Euphrosine Yrronsities.
II. Nicholas Yrronsities.
III. John Yrronsities.
ANDREA DIMITRY, THE IMMIGRANT Native of Hydra Island, Greece
IV. Mary Yrronsities. Married Anthony Cashambriates.
V. Niege Yrronsities. Married in her second nuptials Atha- nasius Ponlanquitros, a Surgeon of Hydra Island, Greece. (The word or tribal name of Yrronsities, was Zinkis or Zinkas.)
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Drussus Drussakis married Euphronsine Yrronsities. They had issue :
I. Nicholas Drussakis-Dimetrios. Married Hellen, daugh- ter of Stanatios Cashambriates.
II. Anthony Drussakis Dimetrios.
III. Mary Drussakis Dimetrios.
IV. Andrea Drussakis Dimetrios. Married M. C. Dracos.
V. Theodore Drussakis Dimetrios.
VI. George.Drussakis Dimetrios. Married Eliza Dietz.
Andrea Dimitry, as his name was Americanized when he became a citizen of Louisiana, a native of the Island of Hydra, in the Grecian Archipelago, born June, 1775; married, in New Orleans, Oct. 29, 1799, Marianne Celeste Dracos, and died, New Orleans, March 1, 1852. Marianne Celeste Dracos was b. March 1, 1777; d. April 22, 1856, in New Orleans, La. They had issue :
I. Euphrosine Dimitry, b. Sept. 12, 1800, in New Orleans, La .; d. Feb. 13, 1873. Married, April 23, 1822, Paul Pandely, of England, in New Orleans.
II. Mannella Airnée, b. Jan. 12, 1802, in New Orleans, La .; d. May 2nd, 1882. Married, June 10, 1826, August Dietz, of France, in New Orleans.
III. Alexander Dimitry, b. New Orleans, La., Feb. 6th, 1805; died, New Orleans, Jan. 30, 1883; married, Washing- ton, D. C., April 5th, 1835, Mary Powell Mills, daughter of Robert Mills. (Volumes II and III.)
IV. Constantine Andrea Dimitry, b. New Orleans, May 24, 1807; drowned at Natchez, Miss., in the Mississippi River, in 1829. He was blind and unmarried.
V. John Baptiste Miguel Dracos Dimitry, b. New Orleans, May 18, 1809; d. New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1873; married New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1836, Caroline Sophia Powers. VI. Clino Angelica Dimitry, b. New Orleans, March 7, 1811, d. Bay St. Louis, July 19, 1882; married, 1841, Gio- vanni Pieri, M. D., of Italy.
VII. Marie Francesca Athenaïs Dimitry, b. in New Orleans, Feb. 15, 1813; d. New Orleans, March 22, 1897; mar- ried, three times ; first, March 23, 1829, Isadore Michel Ravant Martainville, of France-two children ; married,
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second, May 26, 1837, John Baptiste de Lagarde, of France, and had two children; married, third, New Orleans, March 28, 1850, George Alexander Daniel Buel, of Zanesville, Ohio, and had one daughter.
MARIANNE CELESTE DRACOS Wife of Andrea Dimitry
VIII .. Nicholas Dimitry, b. Feb. 7, 1815, in New Orleans, La. ; d. Feb. 6, 1836, unmarried.
IX. Mathilde Elizabeth Theophanie Dimitry, b. New Orleans, Nov. 29, 1816; d. New Orleans, Oct. 9, 1869; married, April 22, 1839, Dr. August Natili, of Italy.
X. Antoine Marie, b. New Orleans, Feb. 3, 1820; died un- married.
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Alexander and Miguel Dracos were men of distinguished learn- ing. The former especially was a linguist of remarkable ability, an orator and diplomat.
ANDREA DIMITRY.
Andrea Dimitry, a native of the Island of Hydra, in the Grecian Archipelago, son of Nicholas Dimitry and Euphrosine Antonia, was known in his own country by the name of Andrea Drussakis Dime- trios Apolocorum. The family was one of the ancient Macedonian stock. one of those families that abandoned their pastoral homes and herds after the conquest of Macedonia by the Turks, and fled to the rocky isles of the Archipelago. The family or tribe of Drussakis settled on the Island of Hydra. from which Andrea Dimitry landed in the spring of 1799.
Naturally, on arriving in a new country he sought among the residents those of the same language and country as himself, and among them he found Michel Dracos. a prosperous and wealthy merchant, to be the most prominent. Dracos was pleased to find in Dimitry a man of refinement and knowledge of the world and requirements of trade, and also having the advantage of a good education. He therefore advanced his interests and gave him a seat at his table, and in October, 1799, he was married to the beautiful Marianne Celeste Dracos, daughter of his host. By her he had a large family, rose to wealth and prominence in the com- munity, and died March 1st, 1852. Andrea Dimitry took part in the war of 1812 to 1815, assisting in the defense of New Orleans. The records of the War Department show that he was a private, in Capt. Frio Delabostris' company (second Cavaliers), Louisiana Militia. He enlisted Dec. 16. and served two months and twenty- five days.
The New Orleans Bee. of March 2, 1852. has the following : "Association de Veterans de la Louisiana, ide 1812 to 1815. Les membres de cette association sont respecturesment invités à assister anx funerailles de leur ancient frère d'armes. Andrea Dimitry, qui aurant lieu cet aprèsmidi à 4 heurs et demi. Le convoi partira de sa denière résidence No. 152 rue des Quartiers. entre Dauphine et Burgoine. Par ordre du président.
ANTHONY FERNANDEZ. Secretaire."
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The Time Delta, March 2, 1852, has the following :
A noble veteran is gone. We have to record this morning the death of the venerable Andrea Dimitry, one of our oldest citizens, who was esteemed and beloved by a multitude of friends. Throughout his life he has been distinguished for a high sense of honor and for an integrity that brooked no thought of self. His social and domestic duties were performed with exemplary solicitude, and dying in his eighteenth year, he lived to see a posterity grow up about him, honored for their talents and their virtues. In his son, Alexander Dimitry, whom Louisiana proudly claims as her own, is reflected the purity of character and eminent virtues of his father.
A detachment of the Washington Artillery appeared at the cottage, with a number of officers of other commands. The cannon's roar, and volleys of musketry announced the entombing of the veteran, the rites of which were solemnized by several clergymen. The officers and crew of the Greek vessel in port attended the funeral in a body, and the flags of the vessel were suspended at half mast during the day.
PANDELY.
Euphrosine Dimitry, eldest child of Andrea Dimitry and Mari- anne Celeste Dracos, b. New Orleans, La., September 12, 1800; d. New Orleans, February 13, 1873. Married (in New Orleans, April 22, 1822) Paul Pandely, who was the son of Nicholas Pandeli, a native of Greece, who emigrated to England, and married Elizabeth English, of royal Stuart blood. They had two sons, George and Paul, and one daughter, Ellen. George died in New Orleans, of yellow fever, about 1832, and was unmarried. Ellen Pandely, when 30 years of age, at Bay St. Louis, Miss., married Demetrius Canna, a Greek, who was sixty-two years old when they married, and ninety-nine when he died. His wife bore him three daughters, all living (1905), namely :
I. Agnes Canna, not married :
II. Catherine Canna. Married George A. Caldwell, son of Dr. Caldwell, and his wife, Miss Cooper, of New York.
III. Elizabeth Canna. Married Reuben Garnier.
Catherine Canna married George A. Caldwell; died. They had issue :
I. Frank Caldwell. Married Henrietta Lorentz, 1904.
II. Ollie Caldwell, unmarried; d. Friday, Dec. 29, 1905.
Frank Caldwell, married Henrietta Lorentz, 1904. They had issue :
I. Thelma M. Caldwell, b. July 17, 1905; d. Dec. 25, 1905.
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Nicholas Pandeli was the son of Del Colminati Pandeli, who was prominent in the political contest which terminated in the liberation of the Greeks from Turkey.
Paul Pandely, b. 1800, married. April 22, 1822, Euphrosine Dimitry. They had issue, twenty-eight children; only four reached maturity : Octavia, George, William, Elizabeth.
I. Octavia Pandely, b. 1820; d. Aug. 23, 1896, at Bay St. Louis, Miss. Married Frank Michinard, Esq., attorney- at-law ; issue, eleven sons and one daughter. Three sons only survived their mother, namely :
I. Dr. Paul Michinard, a prominent and highly esteemed physician of New Orleans.
1I. Mr. Frank Michinard, long Washington, D. C .. press cor- respondent ; now in other business west.
III. Mr. William Michinard. Married They have two children :
Sadie Michinard.
Florence Michinard.
II. George Pandely, b. Aug., 1829: d. Sept. 28, 1894. Mar- ried (1854) Ernestine Martainville, b. Jan. 11, 1832; d. Nov. 23, 1873.
III. William Pandely, died young, unmarried.
IV. Elizabeth Pandely, b. 1835; living, unmarried.
GEORGE PANDELY.
Died in New Orleans, Sept. 28, 1894, in his 66th year. He was born on the plantation of his father, Mr. Paul Pandely, which was situated on the upper side of Jackson Barracks, and is now a part of the city. Paul Pandely was a man of broad business ideas, full of energy, and with a scholarly mind filled with a vast amount of information. He was of Greek and English origin, and was born at Plymouth, England. At one time he was professor of Eng- lish in the old Poydras College on Conde, near Chartres St. Dur- ing the youth of his son George, he had a saw-mill on his plantation. In order to facilitate the transportation of logs to the mill. and lumber from it, he began the digging of a canal which he intended to make wide and deep enough for flat-boat navigation. But the crisis of 1837, which destroyed credit and threw the whole country
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into distress and disorder, prevented him from financing his project, and the canal was never completed. The unfinished work, however, still goes by the name of Pandely's Canal.
George Pandely was born in Aug., 1829. At school he exhibited the aptitude which indicated the success he met with in after life. His scholarly attainments were such that in early life he was offered the position of teacher in the public schools of the second district. He taught for two years, and afterwards served as chief clerk in Judge Lugenbuhl's Court, in the Third District. After some time in this position. he was appointed by P. Severe Wiltz, Esq., to be minute clerk in the court of Judge Philip Hickory Morgan. From 1859 to 1SSS, George Pandely was associated as superintendent, with the railroad interests of the city. In 1859, Mr. John M. Le- peyre, President of the Pontchartrain R. R., appointed him super- intendent of the road. When Mr. Charles Morgan, of New York, became owner of the Pontchartrain, he retained Col. Pandely in the same position, and also made him superintendent of Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, which was the New Orleans, Ope- lousas and Great Western Railway, extending from New Orleans to the Atchafalaya at Berwick, now Morgan City. Mr. Pandely re- mained in that position until the road was merged into the South- ern Pacific Company's System, in 1888. In that year he was made President of the Whitney Iron Works, of New Orleans, which position he retained until his death. For several years he also owned and operated a sugar plantation, on Bayou Boeuf.
In city polities he took an active interest, and was a member of the city council in 1868 and 1869, from the eighth ward.
At the beginning of hostilities, in 1861, Governor Moore ap- pointed him Colonel of Militia : although he did not actively par- ticipate with the troops in the field. he was able, owing to his con- trol of the Pontchartrain R. R., to forward medicines for the Southern Army, whose pickets were almost within sight. across Lake Pontchartrain.
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