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To: Eternal_Bear

He was an enlisted man in the war of 1812 and left before his term of enlistment expired.

wikipedia: "Crockett was elected lieutenant colonel of the Fifty-seventh Regiment of Tennessee Militia on March 27, 1818."

206 posted on 02/10/2007 7:15:49 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)

To: Sherman Logan

March 27, 1818. The war of 1812 had ended by then.

207 posted on 02/10/2007 11:51:49 AM PST by Eternal_Bear

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