... Major Lemuel Montgomery, oldest son of Hugh, Jr., was killed at the battle of the Horseshoe, in Alabama, 1814, near where the city of Montgomery now stands. "For him the city of Montgomery was named." His war relics are in the museum at New York. ...
Lemuel Purnell Montgomery (c. 1786 – March 27, 1814) was an American military officer who fought in the Creek War. Montgomery was an attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, when the War of 1812 broke out, and was commissioned as a major of the 39th Infantry. He was killed in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, at the conclusion of the Creek War, on March 27, 1814. ...