General Taylor's Etat De Service

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Zachary Taylor's Executive Ability

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"He was a soldier, with good executive ability."

"At the time Taylor had reached his twenty-first year he was a tough, rough, and vigorous fellow ready for any emergency calling for pluck, endurance ,and sound manly judgment. His father had been a soldier, and the circumstances in which he had been reared led his inclinations in the same way."

Portrait Of Zachary Taylor

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Before he was President, Zachary Taylor was the commander of Fort Harrison.

General Ripley Buried In Locust Grove

Gravestone of General Eleazer W. Ripley

Died March 29, 1839, aged 54 years

There was another famous person buried in Locust Grove Cemetery in West Feliciana Parish, Lousiana.  In fact, it was the grave of Sarah Knox (Taylor) Davis, daughter of President Zachary Taylor and first wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, that led us there.

General Ripley's second wife, Aurelia Smith, was the widow of Dr. Benjamin Davis (Jefferson Davis's brother).

Fort Harrison

Zachary Taylor remembered the author of Facts and suggestions, biographical, historical, financial and political: addressed to the people of the United States (Google eBook), Duff Green, at Fort Harrison.

When after his election as President, I called with a friend, who introduced me to General Taylor, he said:  "Oh sir I knew General Green long before you did."  I replied,  "I did not suppose that you would recollect me."  He said, "I will never forget that you volunteered your regiment to remain at Fort Harrison."

Another post about the book's author, Duff Green.

See the Battle of Fort Harrison here.