The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

I could not sit in chair for five minute.
Without support. Usually he sat astral.
ate. so he could put his arms over the
oack. Never, perhaps, did q more
soreiy stricken man go to lead cam
paign. He was more fitted for a hos
pital than the field. yet SO remarkable
was his will that at times he disre.
garded his injuries and tore around as
~ he We're In his full strength. Blu,
the reaction would be fearful.
II ever a man showed magnificent
courage and ability surely Jackson
did In that campaign. His supplies
Went astray and his men were left
starving. They mutinied. He catoled
and threatened. Company after com.
pany tried to desert with such as re-
manned faithful he drove the rebellious
back. But the men became so weak
at last that he could go no further.
Mutiny spread until 1t seemed the ex.
petition would end In disaster but
jackson never relaxed. He held that
starving horde together, until at last
supplies apd reinforcements arrived
Then in series Of brilliant moves
eliminating In the battle of Horse
shoe Bend he crushed the Creeks and
ended the Indian war. Next he drove
the British out OF Mobile and came
within an ace of penning up a British
fleet in Pensacola. He figured cor
rectly that the next move of the British
would be against New Orleans That
city practically was without defense
"A great British feet had assembled at
Jamaica preparatory to a descent upon
the Mississippi.
New Orlens.
On the st of December. 1914, ac-
companied only by his stan. he ar
rived in New Orleans from Mobile
Within few days he had drawn plans
for the defense OF the city and had In
spected all It's approaches. His force
from Mobile arrived and he had 5000
men. Nearly as many more were en-
route from Tennessee. but when they
were to arrive ne was rs IND that few
or them were armed and New Orleans
had little with which to equtp them
Fifty British ships arrived at the
entrance to Lake Borgue early in De-
cember. Jackson had been none TOO
soon. With rare skill the British man
aged to mask their operations. land a
large body Of troops and get within
eight miles Of New Orleans before their
movements were discovered. Word
reached Jackson on the afternoon OF
December 20 of the discovery of the
enemy That night he struck. Down
the Mississippi went a little gunboat.
the Carolina, and over the swamps ana
nelds went picked body Of Louis
ianans and Tennesseeans The British
We're to be treated new style Of war.
rare, something the Americans had
learned from the Indians night at
tack.
It was the advance guard Of the
British that Jackson attacked. The
guns OF the Carolina We're to give the
signal. The Carolina opened too early
to make the attack wholly successful
and the night was too dark for the
opposing forces to distinguish friend
from foe, but the suddenness Of the
attack. the spirit of the Americans and
the injury inflicted led the British to
draw back and hesitate before making
any further forward movement.
1t was little more than skirmish,
but 1t produced delay. and time was
everything to Jackson, for he had only
5000 menNto oppose the great force
OF the enemy Delay made 1t possible
for him to throw up breastworks, toll
deepen and widen the Rodriguez canal
and to place a barrier between him
and the British that was to prove their
ruin.
The British. cautious from their pre-
vious experience, took advantage OF
the darkness of night to establish bat.
teries, intending to shell the Ameri.
cans. and under cover of the artillery
fire rush the infantry and rout the de-
tenders from behind their breastworks
Big guns mad been brought up from
the ships. jackson. too, established
batteries. In the duel between the big
guns the British made a frontal at.
tack. Alas! for the trained veterans
of Britain's great and victorious army
They could not Withstand the fire Of
the American sharpshooters and had
to retire. And when the smoke raised,
after the big guns Of the batteries
ceased firing, 1t was discovered that
every British battery had been de-
stroyed. The British had used hogs
heads or sugar and hogsheads Of mo-
#lasses to protect the batteries. The
American balls had gone through them
as If they were paper and had spread
the sticky mass broadcast until the
men in the batteries We're tioundering,
slipping and sliding helplessly about.
One thing the British did do. They
managed to destroy the Carolina, but
that was all.
Although checked, the British were
not content. General Sir Edward
Packenhan PARLIAMENTARY OF yelling
ton, and one of England's great SOL
dters, had arrived and taken command.
He planned to storm the American
works, and While storming them to-
send a force UP the west side Of the.
river, capture the, city and attack the
Americans IN the rear. An excellent
plan. but badly executed. On January
g he led the stormlnE party .Ghlls