[3] He joined the Continental Army at age 16, serving initially as one of General George Washington's aides.

He was then commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Georgia Continental Brigade, under General Robert Ware, and also served in Spanish Florida.

[3] He distinguished himself in the Battle of Monmouth, while on Washington's staff, that he was complimented by the Second Continental Congress and made a brigade major at the age of eighteen.

[1] After the war, Berrien undertook privateering expeditions, during which he met Captain John Macpherson.

[6] J. W. M. Moore was expelled from the United States Military Academy for his participation in the Christmas 1826 cadet mutiny, and in later life became a "great landowner" and commission merchant in Rome, George.