Jackson-Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Caperton, George April 4, 1836
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The Democrat, Huntsville, Alabama, April 19, 1836
Departed this life on Monday the 4th instant at his residence four miles south 
of Bolivar, Jackson County, Ala. Col. George Caperton, far advanced in his 60th 
year, after an illness of ten days…left numerous family in easy circumstances.  
Was commander of a company in the last Creek and Seminole War in which at many 
places, Tallahatchee, Talladega, and others, but particularly the latter, he 
distinguished himself as an officer and a good soldier.  It was there at the 
commencement of the battle (the most doubtful crisis of a soldier’s feelings) 
that is exhibited that deliberation and firmness which characterizes the 
American Soldier.  Our army was moving slowly toward the enemy in battle array; 
Col. Carroll Inspector General riding in front and being more elevated than some 
part of his men first discerned the Indians crouched down in the shrubbery.  He 
halted.  Gave the precautionary commands, then fire.  Col. Caperton, then Capt. 
Caperton, not being sufficiently high to see the enemy exclaimed to his company, 
“Stop boys – don’t fire until you see the object that you shoot at.”  Their fire 
was reserved – but twas for a short time for the firing of the first company 
caused the Indians to rise from their ambushade with hideous yells and gestures 
as they rushed toward our encampment, when Capt. Caperton repeated the Colonel’s 
orders to his company, the Indians were shocked and checked in their impetuous 
course and filed off in a different direction. 


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