Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-27
THEIR DEADLY FIRE.
THE AMERICAN slflEMER AT THs
 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS


 eral JaclSson--A Letter From 'sold Hicl- orye-- Hom paeaenhau's Veterans Were Defeated by Frontiersmen.
 TaThe Century William Hugh Rol,- .rts has an article entitled 'Napo1eon'a interest In the Battle of New Orleans. t Il this is quoted hitherto unpublished etter written by General Jackson to Mc lanes Monroe. A portion of the letts ollows:
 There was a very heavy fog on tie iyer that morning, and the British had ormed and were moving before knew t The disposition of the rifiemen WIS rery simple They were told off jn Nos and 2. No. 1 was to fire first, the2 tep back and let No. 3 shoot while h& About 600 yards from the rife. nen there was a great drainage canal ,unning back from the Mississippi rives h the swamp in the rear of the tiled land on which W e were operating. Along his canal the British formed, under tue Ire of the few artillery pieces 1 had hear enough to them to get their range. But tie instant l saw them l said to soAee. whom directed to hurry to his Ib1e. which was 10 be first attackeds .kBy -, we have got them They are 5sarglp Coffee dashed forward, and, liGr |ats aI6ng his line, called out, sDoa's .soot til you can see their belt bucklesP' zhe British " ere formed in mass, wnll Itosed up, and about two companies |apnt
 The British, thus formed, moved . Ata quick step, without firing a shot. to sa5tain 100 yards of the kneeling rifies ngsn. who were holding their fire till 5isey could see the belt buckles of theiI ss1mies. The British advance was exc og led as though they had been on pa. xaf 6. They marched shoulder 10 shout. aef with the step of veterans, az they 4gssa. At 100 yards distance from ous liEa the order was given: Extend col. si# a Double quick. lnarchi .Qe With bayonets at the charge, xNe, came on HIS at q run. I own 1t was s1ss aaxious moment 1 well knew the S6Syging column was made up of tho nil al troops of the British army. They ssah been trained by the duke himself. egete commanded ny his brother-in.law Hsa had successfully held off the ablest N Napoleon s marshals in the Spanish sainTaign. My rifemen had never seen Heb ID attack, nor had they ever before Naglt white men, The morning, too, kas damp Their powder might not aN9n Aeell God help Hsl3 I muttered. wHtehng tbe rapidly advancing line. Aoxpnty. GO, 90. finally 40 yards, were Mi4s fl 5m the silent kneeling rifemen. AgHDf 1ny men that 1 could see was their saag rifles rested on the logs before IhAsn They obeyed their orders well. &ssFa shot was fred until the redeoata #etH within to yards. l heard Goffee'a NAi9e as he roared out: Now. men, aim Mf center of the cross beltst Firep. AS0ond after the order q cracking,
 iszsng flash ran all along our liae. The NH5ke hIng go heavily in the misty moFning air that I could not sec what haa Happened I called Tom Oyerton Ma bnai Duncan of my staff, and WE saliapea toward Coffee,s line In a few wvugas afier the first fire there came nptHfr sharp, ringing yoIley. As ] ana within 150 yards Of Coffee the Make lifted enough for ns to make out Sat was happening
 @IAe Bfitbh were falling back in
 Mlfased, disorderly mass, and the ell.
 ae lhst ranks of their column were
 NHn away For 200 yards ill our front
 N9gpund " IS covered with a mass of
 E5fb1lg, wounded, dead and dying red.
 aEs By the time the rifles were wiped
 Bxtish liHa was reformed, and oB
 Nal1ie again This time they were led
 5ener@l Pasenham in person, gal
 anounted and riding as though he
 nparade. lust before he got within
 EseHf Goffee's line l heard a single
 e8ERt from 3 group of country carts
 aaA been usii 2, about 1i5 yards dis. ! IHand moment thereafter l saw "a Kenhim reel and pitch out of his sad.
 fhaye always believed he fell from
 hn let Of q freeman of color who
 axmous rife shot aud came from
 Afakappas .egitn of Louisiana. Tho Ii \ hd Advance was precisely like the Win fs ending. In five volleys the
 p0 pF more rihomen killed and
 nfiesi 9,llf British soldiers, two.
 asQf them killed dead or mortally ,c Mffsl. did not know where Gen ~. tzakerham was lying, or 1 should Coz sealt to him or gone in person to ls, IS kang service in my power to render $. No Mastold he lived two honrs after rn8nI zaS hit His wound was directly nrau aa1 tho liver and bowels. General lnsu ass hear, was killed. They sent ,delp R lae. asking leave to gather
 ae1zAS wounded and bury their dead,
 of course, granted. I was told n qlA8oanded officer that the rank and
 asss7s'l tely refused to make third - We have no chance with such
 ..n As is these Americans do, they
 Hereditary Suicide.
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