Captain Laval Survived

Fort Pickens - Pensacola, Florida, Area

From Notices of Florida and the Campaigns. [With a map.],  By M. M. Cohen (Commander of Pioneers.)

Notices of Florida stated that Captain Laval, "This promising officer was killed in the act of storming the battery."  It seems as though, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.  Captain William Laval was severely injured, per the Surgeon's Affidavit (below).

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He was injured on the 7th of November 1814 being engaged in storming a fort at or near a place called Pensacola, Territory of West Florida.

Laval was a member of the 3rd Regiment of the U.S. Army and served under General Andrew Jackson.

He left the Army on 31 December 1822.

Another document in Laval's file indicated that he died 28 August 1865.  From 1861 until his death, he resided in Columbia, South Carolina.

His widow was Sarah C. Laval of Greenville, South Carolina.