Life of General Edward Lacey

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At the age of 13, Edward Lacey ran away and joined the Pennsylvania troops on their way to Braddock's Defeat during the French and Indian War. At the age of sixteen, he ran away ag ain and ended up in Chester District, South Carolina where he bound himself to William Adair, a bricklayer. He entered Revolutionary service as a Captain in the Cherokee Campaign. He was the commander of the troops at Huck's Defeat and was with Sumter in other engagements. Edward Lacey was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War from South Carolina. He survived the war, after fighting in sixteen engagements, including commanding the Chester contingent at King's Mountain. Maurice A. Moore, Sr. (1859), reprint, paper, 22 pp.ISBN: 9780788495991 101C-M9599 Show more