Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-04-24
GEN. TAYLOR.

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history of General TAYLOR. The subjoin-
ed answers from the Newark Daily Ad-
vertiser will satisfy many. They show
that General TAYLOR, who achieved the
four great victories in one campaign,
"worked" up from the white epaulette on
the left shoulder, to the double epaulette
of gold, and the yellow feather-from the
lowest to the highest grade:
"He comes from an ancient Virginia family,
which emigrated from England, with other friends
of liberty, and settled in the eastern part of Vir-
ginia near two centuries ago-a family which
has since been greatly distinguished in its various
branches, and which included within its connec-
tons such names as James Madison, John Tay-
lor, of Caroline, Judge Pendleton, General Hunt,
Sc. General Taylor's father was one of the most
daring Of those enterprising pioneers who SET
tied "the dark and bloody ground" which defines
the Indian word Kentucky. and many anecdotes
are told of his prowess in desperate encounters
with the savnges.
'.He became also man of eminence in civil
life and was member of the electoral colleges
which voted for Jefferson. Madison, Monroe, and
Clay. He died on his estate near Lexington, in
| 1926, leaving four sons, of whom 'Old Zack' is
the third, and, we believe, one or two daughters.
The eldest son, Gen. James Taylor, who was a
Quartermaster-Gener in the army during the
war Vi 1919, UoW IcSiucS az NeWpOIt n.y., Ut IH6
advanced age of eighty years.
"His more distinguished brother was born in
Kentucky, two years before its admission into the
| Union, and is now, therefore, about fifty six
years of age. Having stout, vigorous frame,
he was early distinguished for feats of manly
character, and many amusing anecdotes are told
OF his achievements in the sports of boyhood.
The snme foresight, frmness. and decision, which
have since so attracted public admiration, are
said to have characterized his whole course
through all the shifting circumstances of life.
Soon after the affair of the Chesapeake and Loop
ard, previous to the war of 1912, he, then being
eighteen years of age, received from NJ. Jeffer-
son lin 1900 the appointment Uf Lieutenant in
the 7th Infantry, and commenced that military
career which has now been crowned with imper-
ishable fame
| "His strict observance of duty, and distin.
guished merit a discipnarian, soon commended
him for promotion, and at the opening of the wal
of 1912. we find him captain in his regiment
| Having been entrusted with the command of Fort
Harrison, on the Wabash. with garrison Of
fifty men, he greatly distinguished himself in that
year by his successful defence of it against for
midable attack by large body of Indians and
was rewarded by the President with the brevet
rank Of major. His well known skill 10 Indian
warfare, acquired in the Northwest Territory, Sc
cured for him the command of the first brigade OF
the army of the south, and it was at the head OF
that division that he won the bloody battle OF
Lake Okee- Chobee. during the Florida campaign
OF 1888, and for which achievement he was bre.
veted brigadier general After four or five years
arduous service in the swamps and hammocks of
Florida, he was assigned to the command of the
first department Of the army at Fort Jesup, where
the order to Texas and the Rio Grande found him.
| ~"By his marriage with a lady of Maryland,
Gen, Taylor has one son and two daughters, one
of whom is married to Col. Davis, Of the Mis-
sppi regiment, who was severely wounded at
Buena Vista. But to pursue his military career
further, in the midst of the glowing enthusiasm
of the country over his brilliant achievements in
Mexico, would be idle, and the receipt of the
southern mail as we write, compels us to defer a
notice of the higher qualities which commend him
to the confidence and respect of his countymeu .