Gaines Hastened To Offer His Services

Source

"Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, on the 20th of March 1777.  ...he removed to Sullivan county afterwards the eastern part of Tennessee."

 "This portion of the state was then...[populated] by the Cherokee Indians who were very hostile to the whites and kept the border families in a constant state of terror and alarm. He [Gaines] became expert in the use of the rifle and studied as much of military tactics as he could... .  ...he was elected lieutenant at the age of eighteen, and in January, 1799, he was appointed ensign in the sixth regiment of infantry of the United States army (in 1800 he was transferred to the fourth regiment)... ."

"On the declaration of war in 1812 captain Gaines hastened to offer his services once more to his country."

General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley

A biography of the General:  Eleazar Wheelock Ripley of the War of 1812..."  Also here.

Source

After protracted and severe suffering. General Ripley so far recovered as to be able to travel, and started for Albany, where he arrived in January, 1815. During his long prostration, he received the constant and unremitted attention of his wife to whom he was married in 1811, and who was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Allen, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a distinguished Revolutionary patriot.

The announcement of peace, which soon followed, rendered his presence unnecessary upon the frontier, and as soon as returning health permitted, he demanded and put in motion a Court of Inquiry as to his military conduct, which had been missrepresented and traduced.

The current of public opinion flowed strongly in his favor. Congress voted him a gold medal, for his gallant conduct at Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, testimonials of esteem on every hand reminded him that his countrymen appreciated his services and at last, even Brown himself, whatever may have been his mental reservations and secret animosity, felt constrained to contribute the following letter to his vindication:

Upon the return of peace, the army was reduced to a peace establishment and was re-organized. Two Major Generals, Jackson and Brown, and four Major Generals by brevet, Macomb, Gaines, Scott and Ripley were retained in the service. 

The Genealogy of the Ripley Family here.

General Edmund P. Gaines

Source

General Edmund P. Gaines