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Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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LARGE PRINT EDITION: My only apology for writing whatever may
appear on the following pages is that I may leave on record a brief
synopsis of my very tame and uneventful life; that my four little
grandsons of whom I am very proud, may have an opportunity in after
life to take a slight glance at some of the events transpiring in
the short life of their paternal grandfather, in the hope that they
may improve on my successes (if it can be said that I have had
such) and profit by my mistakes which have been many. To them -
Raymond Trice Carroll, John Murchison Carroll, Thomas Burns
Carroll, and Kirk McKenzie Carroll - the following lines are
affectionately dedicated by their grandfather, My great grandfather
Carroll immigrated to this country from Ireland many years before
the Revolutionary War. Landing in Maryland, the family drifted into
North and South Carolina and finally some of them to Tennessee. He
and several brothers were in the American army during the entire
war, as were also some of his oldest sons. Grandfather Joseph
Carroll was about eighty years of age at the close of the
Revolutionary War, as he has related to me many times by way of
entertainment with many other stirring scenes calculated to live in
the tablets of the mind of a small but intensely interested boy. He
emigrated to Middle Tennessee in his young manhood, bringing with
him five thousand dollars, quite a little fortune for that day and
time, where he engaged in farming. Let me say in regard to his
character that he was one of those big-hearted, open-handed
Irishmen, who loved a dram and occasionally took too much, and when
in those happy moods became endorser for other men, which finally
nearly exhausted all his means, leaving himself and family in
straitened circumstances. (Boys, become surety for no man.) He soon
after emigrated to West Tennessee, settling in Henderson County,
then sparsely settled. Here he recuperated somewhat, his lost
fortune, but never fully. About this time war was declared by the
United States against Great Britain. He immediately volunteered and
took part in the battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8th, 1815. It was of
great interest to me when a lad to have him relate to me some of
the many incidents of camp life and of how he and some comrades on
the evening before the battle walked down the line of battle and
found one poor fellow down praying and crying, scared almost to
death, before there had been a shot fired, and of how they
upbraided him for his cowardice; about the death of Gen. Pakenham,
the British general, etc. These recitals fired my youthful heart
with a burning patriotism and how I wished to wear a uniform; to
hear strains of martial music and the roar of cannon; and see
glorious war. I thought such things would never come in my day, but
alas! they did. Let the sequel tell. Of my mother's people I knew
but little, save that they immigrated to this country shortly after
the Revolutionary War from Scotland. My mother's maiden name was
Susan Ann Burns, a Christian woman in deed and in truth, small in
stature never weighing as much as one hundred pounds in her life;
afflicted always after I knew her, but ever cheerful, always
looking well to the wars of her household. She ate not the bread of
idleness. My mother's eldest brother, Samuel Burns, was elected
Major of a volunteer battalion to go to New Orleans with Gen.
Jackson, but, arriving at the place of rendezvous too late, he with
his command, was among the number that were refused, owing to the
great number of men offering their service. Many were turned away
sadly disappointed.
General
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