Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-05-24
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Gen. Jackson----His Valor when a Bow.

Gen. Jackson----AIS Valor when a Boy.
The following incident of the boyhood of
Gen. Jackson, is copied from Parton's Life
of jackson. 1t occurred during the parti-
san war in the Waxhaws:
In that fierce, Scotch Indian warfare. the
absence of father from home was often
better protection to his family than his pre-
sence; because his presence invited attack.
The main object Of both parties was to kill
the fighting men, and to avenge to shaving
partisans. The house of the quiet hero
Hicks, for example, was safe until it was
noised among the tories that Hicks was at
home. And thus 1t came to pass, that when
whig soldier of any note desired to spend
night with his family, his neighbors were
accustomed to turn out and serve as guard
to his house while he slept Behold Robert
and Andrew jackson, with six others, thus
employed enc night in the spring of 1871
at the domicil of a neighbor, Capt. Sands.
The guard on this occasion was more a
friendly tribute to an active partisan than a
service considered necessary to his safety.
In short, the night was not far advanced be-
fore the whole party was snugly housed and
stretched upon the floor, all sound asleep,
except one, British deserter, who was rest
less, and dosed at intervals
Danger was near. A band of tories, bent
on taking the life of Capt. Sands, approach
ed the house in two divisions; one party
moving towards the front door, the other
towards the back. The wakeful Soldier,
hearing suspicious noise, rose, went out of
doors to learn its cause, and saw the foe
stealthily nearing the house. He ran in in
terror, and seized Andrew, jackson, who
lay next to the door, by the hair, and ex-
claimed: 1.-The tories are upon US !''
Andrew sprang up and ran out. Seeing
a body OF men in the distance, he placed
the end of his gun in the low fork of tree
near the door, and hailed them. No reply.
He hailed them the second time Ne reply
They quickened their pace, and had come
within few rods of the door. By this time
too, the guard in the house had been reused
and were gathered in a group behind the
boy. Andrew discharged his musket, upon
which the tories fired a volley, which killed
the hapless deserter who had given the alarm.
The other party of tories who were approach
ing the house from the other side, hearing
the discharge, and the rush of bullets above
their heads supposed that the firing issued
from party that had issued from the house.
They now fired volley, which sent show
er of balls whistling about the heads of their
friends on the other side. Both parties hest
tated, and then halted, Andrew having thus,
by his single discharge, puzzled and stopped
the enemy, retired to the heuse, where he
and his comrades kept up brisk fire from
the windows. One of the guard fell NOR
tally wounded by his side, and another re-
ceived wound less severe. In the midst
OF this singular contest, bugle was heard
some distance off, sounding the cavalry
charge: whereupon the tories, concluding
that they had come upon an ambush of
wings, and were about to be assailed by
horse and foot fed to where they had left
their horses, mounted, dashed pell-mell into
the woods, and were seen no more. It ap-
peared afterwards that the bugle-charge was
sounded by neighbor, who, Judging from
the noise of muskctry that Capt Sands was
attacked, and having not sing man with
him in his house, gave the blast upon the
trumpet thinking that even trick SO stale,
aided by the darkness of the night, might
have some effect in alarming the assailants.