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Sth UNIT D ST" ES INFANTRY R^GIM‘-;NT
STATIONED AT PASS CHRISTIAN DOING
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON JACKSON'S
MILITARY ROAD FROM MADISONVILLE
NORTHWARD AND SPUR FROM PASS CHRISTIAN
1817 - 1820
"Military Roads in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana" by Powell a Casey - p. 238, 239, 24-1
"Louisiana History" quarterly of Louisiana Historical Assn.
Summer 197^ - Vol. XV, No. 3
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Brigadier General E. W. Ripley, commander of District 8 of the army at New Orleans and Pass Christian, used the Eighth Infantry 5 Regiment to build the road (Jackson1 s Milltary’Road) northward^from ’ Madisonville, Las By January 1819 he had pushed construction to the Louisiana-Mississippi line, but thereafter the progress was very slow.
At this time there was a lack of steamboats on Lake Pontchartrain. \r "spur road was built on the east side of the Pearl River’to*
F~'*...	’	,	an	army	garrison.,
Eleazar ftheelock Ripley, born Hanover, New Hampshire, April 15? 1792, graduated Dartmouth College, was member of Massachusetts Legislature. Entered the army as lieutenant colonel in 1812, promoted to colonel in 1813 and brigadier general in 1813. Was made brevet major general in 181*+ for gallant conduct at the Battle of Niagara Falls. Given gold medal by Congress for gallant conduct at Chippewa, Niagara and Erie. Resigned from the army in 1820 to practice law in New Orleans and Feliciana Parish. Member of the Louisiana Senate, Elected to Congress for term beginning March 4, 1835 His portrait, by T. T. Noon of New Orleans, is in the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans. Died March 2, 1839. Interred in Locust Grove Plantation Cemetery, near St. Francisville, La.