This was written by the late Lamar White of Utah and Lynn White of Arkansas. They did an admirable job. This is used with permission: James enlisted, as a private in the 1st Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers (Col. Hall) Company Commander was Capt. Henry L. Douglas. He was mustered into service at Nashville, Tennessee on or about December 1812 for six months and was honorably discharged at Columbia, TN in May 1813. He was later mustered into service at Nashville on September 1, 1814, Col. Edward Bradley's Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, Capt. H. L. Douglas' Company for the term of six months and honorably discharged at or near Colberts Ferry, on the Tennessee River on the last of April 1815. He fought with General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. He was one of the Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen that on January 8, 1815 so decimated the ranks of the veteran British troops as to put them to route. Arthur Jolley's family owns the sword that James H. Ozment carried in that memorable battle. On July 16.1817, James H. Ozment and Elizabeth Eddings were married Lebanon, Wilson County Tennessee--James Ozment (possibly his father) and William N. Swain as Surety. We find no record of James and Elizabeth in the 1820 Census in Tennessee, but according to the later census record of 1850, all of their children up to 1828 were born in Tennessee. Joseph C. Ozment was born in Arkansas in 1830, and we find the family listed in the 1830 Census of Union county, Arkansas. He may have been influenced to move to the Arkansas Territory by those he was in the service with, as it is well known that Hugh Bradley, a Captain in the Militia (TN), that fought in the Battle of New Orleans, learned of the Arkansas Territory by other soldiers, fur traders, trappers, etc. He was probably related to the Edward Bradley that James H. Ozment served with in New Orleans. Hugh Bradley came to Arkansas following the end of the War of 1812, about 1815. By 1821 he settled in Lafayette County near Lewisville, but later he, along with Hugh Pennington, and Aaron Johnson had to leave their homesteads because of high spring flooding which destroyed their farms. Near Camden, they crossed the Ouachita River and moved very near the Saline River to where present day Warren is situated. Our James H. Ozment could have possibly followed this same route to the Pennington settlement, since he is found there "Prior to 1830" as noted in the history of Bradley County. Also from that history is the following notation: "Flat boats were hand-poled or dragged up river through the often present shallows of the Ouachita and Saline Rivers about seven months of the year, loaded with the goods, boxes and bales necessary for the life support of these first early settlers." Sincerely, Lon