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service and was likewise badly cut W
by the sword of the trooper. The tw
youths ere then hauled to Camden
prison forty miles distant.
Lack of the necessaries of life and
wretched food soon got the boys into
such bad physical shape that they fell
an easy prey to the small pox then pre-
vailing in the prison. But they man.
aged to pull through, and after some
weeks of imprisonment, there was sd
exchange of prisoners, and the brJ he 5
were delivered up to their mother who
had come for them. Roberts W d
had never been even dressed, an / hi
condition was critical. Mrs. JAG 8son
laid the poor boy across her sadie,
supporting the limp and weakened
form as best she could. He died from
nervous exhaustion two days after
reaching what was left of thor home.
This as the second son, the poor widow
had lost for an elder son Hugh hao
months before gons off into the army
lever to return. But Mrs. jackson
was able to nurse back to health til
remaining boy Andrew, Tough before
de was entirely recovered, she went t.
Char lesion, LOO miles away to nurse
The starving prisoners in British prison
ships. She presently fell sick of prison
fever and died after short time. Thus
vas the coming general aud pre- ident
bereft of both father and mother before
ne Was fifteen years old, their deaths,
wi h those of his two brothers being
traceable to the British. 1t was the
recollection of such thiogs as this that
especially nerved Andrew JACK sOn al
the battle of New Orleans where he
made il shot time in old town to-
night for the red coats.
DUEL WITH DICKINSON.
The duel between Andrew Jackson
and George Dickinson, says Grant
Hamilton, grew out of his marriage to
the wife OF another man before her
husband had divorced her. What was
tee measure of his blame this tran
saction will never be clear. His bio
graphers say that be fell in love with
the beautiful r achai Robarls of Ken
lucky, when he was q guest in her
house, that she fled from drunken
and abusive husband, ami that jackson
married her, believing she had been
divorced. Afterward when the divorce
vas granted he married her publicly
Il rain. Oiher historians treat the Zero
If New Orleans less kindly. They say
that Mrs. Robards had given her hus-
band cause for suspicion before she met
young Jackson: that she e!oped with
Jackson from he husbands house, and
was pursued Oy IGOOdruS, VINO excQdnS-
I'd Shots WITH jackson across river:
that Jackson lived with her two years,
knowing he had no legal right to marrs
her, and that there is no record of the
public marriage after the divorce.
TT ere are many stories, too, about the
duel. One historian says that Dickin-
son insulted jackson through his wife,
knowing thus to be the most sensitive
spot, thai he might kill him, and that
al Ill ~
chosen agent of Jackson's political lp-
oonents. Another has it that d ckin-
son was splendid fellow, a good law
yer, with the promise of a bright car
-er, and that his light remark about
Mrs. jackson was made thou htlessly
and merely echoed the common opin-
ion. Whatever the facts about the pre-
limi aries, there is 70 doubt that Dick
inson was a fine shot and that
Jackson allowed some time to elapse
some say niue mOpths-before
son pat all his aft ,irs in order. Toe
battle-ground chosen was d slant a days
journey, and all along the route Dick
ioson who preceded Jackson, left
marks of his prOwess with his pistol
One authority has it that Ja:kson's
figure was "built np'' for the purpose
of dece:ving his oppon ent; another tha t
j dckSOu uSuFS was IL u lTdlly peculiar
aud deceptive One of JAckeon's
friends quot I'd him as saying in aft er
ears that he intended to fire in the
ali; tba., being struck, be believed
himself MORALLY wounded, and there
fore tried to XII his antagonist. Others
say that he went on the field deter
M ned to hold his fire a1d then, if he
we -e not killed, TO kill his opporent
with deiibe alton. However all this
may be, it is certain that Dickips On
standing, sprang back with an involun
ond cooked his Own pistol and ordered
D.ckinsOn to a I'D up to the mark, and
that Jack-on then raised his pistol
and shot Dickinson through the
heart. 81;
by the E.erna', I would have killed
dim if he hal sent a bullet through my
brain,' he sail at er his duel in which
he had held his fire until Dick
iuson's bullet had broken two of his
ribs.
He always regretted Dickinson's
death, and no doubt that was not the
only unhappiness which his peculiar
marriage brought to him. But he
loved his wife very dearly, and he was
incc nsOlable when she died, just before
SIT will not be heavf to me If she Is
not there" he said when he was con-
verified.
t BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
The following description of the bat
tie of New Orleans is taken from let
ter written by Gen. Jackson to