1. Samuel Dale, known as the "Daniel Boone of Alabama", was an American frontiersman, soldier, and politician, who fought under General Andrew Jackson, in the Creek War, later, becoming a brigadier general in the US Army, and an advocate for Alabama statehood.
Samuel Dale was born in 1772, in Rockbridge County, Virginia to Scotch-Irish parents from Pennsylvania.
Samuel Dale abandoned work as a trader between Savannah, Georgia and the border settlements and as a mill owner-operator to guide immigrants into Mississippi, over Native American lands.
Samuel Dale was involved in, many of, these confrontations, particularly in 1814, when he served as a courier bringing documents to Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, from Georgia in just eight days.
Samuel Dale took charge of Fort Glass, a small stockade about a quarter of a mile from Fort Madison.
Samuel Dale had at least 50 American partisans under his command.
At night, Samuel Dale illuminated the approaches, for a circuit of one hundred yards, by a device of his own.
Samuel Dale took 60 militiamen to attack the enemy if practicable.
Samuel Dale ordered fellow militiaman Jerry Austill to lay his canoes under the bluff and conceal his men from the Indians until Samuel could get ahead of them.
Samuel Dale shot one down while militiamen Foster shot the next, and the rest broke into the cane-break.
Samuel Dale rode with Major Cassel's American horse-mounted militiamen to raid and destroy Creek villages.
Samuel Dale was elected to the first Alabama General Assembly in 1817, serving until 1829.
General Samuel Dale was the first elected member of the Mississippi House of Representatives to come from Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
Samuel Dale next visited Washington, DC, to request compensation for the supplies that were bought for his troops.
Samuel Dale was disappointed when he received no recognition from the Federal Government.