[Pharmboy]

These were as ghastly as could be...

[silverleaf]

have any remains in the mass graves on the beach ever been discovered? Are there any memorials?

[Pharmboy]

This was the worst of them, the Jersey...it is said that 8,000 patriots died in her.

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[Travis McGee]

Andrew Jackson: Life Before the Presidency

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jackson/essays/biography/2

Soldier, Prisoner and Orphan

The Revolutionary War ended Jackson’s childhood and wiped out his remaining immediate family. Fighting in the Carolina backcountry was especially savage, a brutish conflict of ambushes, massacres, and sharp skirmishes. Jackson’s oldest brother Hugh enlisted in a patriot regiment and died at Stono Ferry, apparently from heatstroke. Too young for formal soldiering, Andrew and his brother Robert fought with American irregulars. In 1781, they were captured and contracted smallpox, of which Robert died shortly after their release. While trying to retrieve some nephews from a British prison ship, Andrew’s mother also fell ill and died.

An orphan and a hardened veteran at the age of fifteen, Jackson drifted, taught school a little, and then read law in North Carolina. After admission to the bar in 1787, he accepted an offer to serve as public prosecutor in the new Mero District of North Carolina, west of the mountains, with its seat at Nashville on the Cumberland River. Arriving in 1788, Jackson thrived in the new frontier town. He built a legal practice, entered into trading ventures, and began to acquire land and slaves.

[C19fan]

Pretty standard operating for the British to throw POWs and criminals into floating prison ships. Remember Pip running into Magwitch escaping from a prison hulk at the beginning of Dickens Great Expectations.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pharmboy.