Georgia   Biographies  Daniel Appling

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Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837, pp. 256-257.
                         DANIEL APPLING
     Daniel Appling was the only son of Col. John Appling and his wife
Rebecca.  Mrs. Appling was a daughter of General Langdon Carter, a native
of Virginia, and one of the first settlers in Tennessee.  Colonel Appling 
was a citizen of Columbia county, and represented that county in the
Convention which met at Louisville in 1795, to revise our State
Constitution.
     The subject of this memoir was born in Columbia county, Georgia, on
the 25th day of August 1787.  While at school, he studied the Latin and
Greek languages.  When 18 years old, he entered the army of the United
States, with a lieutenancy, under Captain (now General) Thomas A. Smith,
of Franklin, Missouri, and after recruiting a while, was stationed at Fort
Hawkins, near Macon.  Here he remained till the regiment to which he was
attached marched to Point Peter, on the St. Mary's.  After this he was
left in command of Amelia Island.
     During the late war, he was ordered to Sackett's Harbour in New York.
 The services of Major Appling were highly distinguished in the battle of
Sandy Creek, fought on the 30th of May, 1814.  He, with a few men, had
been detached to escort some cannon and naval stores.  In ascending Sandy
Creek from Lake Ontario, the party were pursued by the British, who now
supposed their capture was certain.  Appling had secreted himself in the
bushes, until the enemy in their boats was within pistol shot.  He arose
and fired upon them so unexpectedly, that not one escaped!  The number of
marine and sailors killed and captured was 186, besides two gunboats and
five barges.  Appling had under him put 120 men and a few Indians.  Soon
after this brilliant affair, he was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel.  In two
or three other battles, he rendered essential service to his country. 
When Colonel Forsyth was killed, he was transferred to the command of his
regiment.  "Though the panegyric of general orders is sometimes lible to
suspicion," says a brave comrade of his, "those who knew Colonel Appling,
will see, in the commendation bestowed on him, only a just ribute to the
merit of a most gallant soldier and an honourable man."
     After the close of the war, he returned home to his native county,
where his friends pressed around him to offer their gratulations; and, as
is frequently the case, encomiums were more lavishly bestowed than were
congenial to his feelings.
     In 1816, he removed to Montgomery county, Alabama.  Our Legislature,
impressed with a sense of his services, voted him an elegant sword, as a
tribute to disguished merit.  Before the sword arrived, however, from
Philadelphia, it was too late to present it;- the Destroyer had breathed
upon him with his frosty breath, and he had gone the way of all the earth!
 He died the 5th March, 1817, aged 30.
     Inasmuch as the sword could not be presented to him in person, the
Legislature directed that it should be placed in a conspicuous situation
in the Executive Room in Milledgeville.  Here it now hangs, with the
resolution of the Legislature in regard to it, printed and enclosed in a
gilt frame.


Rev. George White, M. A., HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEORGIA, New York,
Pudney & Russell, Publishers, 1854, p. 259.   {Reprinted 1968 by Heritage
Papers, Danielsville, GA}


                             APPLING COUNTY
     Named after Colonel Daniel Appling, Appling County was laid out in
1818; part added to Telfair in 1819, part to Ware in 1824, and a part to
Telfair in 1825... 
     HOLMESVILLE is the County site, distant from Milledgeville 115 miles.
     The first settlers of this county were:
Nathan Dean, John Taylor, Henry Taylor, Silas O. Quin, Moses Vick, John
Johnson, John Hawkins, John Smith, D. Redish, D. Summerall, R. Strickland,
Samuel Sellears, John Pervis, A. Eason, G. Moody, John Roberson, Jesse
Carter, Samuel Carter, Thomas Woods, R. and S. Swilley, B. George, the
Mobleys, Halls, Overstreets, and Wilcoxes.



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Note:
Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Washington City,
Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp. 255-256.
APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES


   "The author conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named, would furnish an
instructive and pleasing appendage to his topographical work...
   Acquainted with the intimate friends of some of the 'venerable dead,'
he has been furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character...
   There are in the State ninety counties (book printed in 1837, presently
in 2001, there are 159 counties)..."


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