The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-07-13

one Of the abiest. officers Of the British
sven y wi tamaso tb without Opposition. and
yyaeks9n, who was beyond the city, near
Lake Ii t, poncnartrain. expecting them there
four hundred more troops to his a cor'l
m n' larger force that day than JACK
most startiinr a oa s pie eommand. and.
OF New Orleans on a dead level nIain
IT. was a. 1 an easy march to New Orleans leans
night night, And why did he not? For Zone one
Reane nor any general or Soldier Of the
that n army supposed for e.-a instant
lot mere oi eo was ss1nythng before them but
they could brush away with their have
nets or stampede with Single char seo-
BEST OF TROOPS.
And who were these men? Who was
lnelr commander, and what had they
Done on battlefields before? Packephan,
We're the amy niny ~ Tnder him at New Orleans
naa dr1ven Bonaparte's greatest general
a atr Rodf the Pysennes They had conquered
ahmanca. Naturally. they laughed at raw
Dackwoods militia. with not even a bayo-
what were their victories? Was thera
any real ground for fear that they would
booty in New Orleans? For ans3s ahd
ask you to read the British General Ma
PIERS account Of what these same soldiers
When Jackson rode along to the front
IN the ne, afternoon to meet the British the
rounded him in terror and CONSERVATION.
say to them" he said to General Iiv-
ingstone. that no British soid;er shall
enter this city unless over my dead BODY
| VIII smash them. by the eternal!' But
that night. many of the women of New
Sosoms, and Wen may t6s sa IN eoe1e
Creole women OF New Orleans nave been
a afraid: after Badajos. San Sebastian. ana
Jackson had reached New Orleans, De-
cember 2. more fit for the hospital than
three weeks IN Witch 20 prepar with The Only e
fenseless city; but under the magic of
ehas o3 II. Py The
S dssPsEation h ana what a mosie{ e =
But. Coree and his Tennessean ans were
woods. and Jackson sent courier after
courier to them, saving: Don't stop till
reach cap s or a arve II dis
the +Se the ohio and were now
gun to ten men until they overlook a
6oa atH3i If, Of muskets and with these
his boat. To him jackson sent \ beat
up the river with this message: 'I am
resolved. feeble as my, force IS. to await
sooner than he shall reach the city" Two
thousand Kentuckians. under Generals |
down the Mississippi, a ragged. defense
less. and almost gunless crowd. without |
blankets or tents, and with only ore |
now, it was the fourteenth day of De- |
cember. and the British had been. at the |
mouth or the river nearly a week.
JACKSON'S MEN.
On the evening of the 18th, Coffee, one J
hundred and twenty-nine miles from New
Sgrsag we're received p0e note HIS
men were sick. but in three days he was |
there. but, only with his picked men
rapid march. And here is the way our
pioneer forefathers in battle looked, from
Their appearance was not very mill.
tary. In their wooden hunting shirts of
dark ark, or dinsy colors and copperas7dyed
by their wives. mothers, and sisters; with |
slouchine wool hats, some composed of
belts of Unframed deer skin in which
We're stuck hunting. knives and toma-
anS faces ha OF af their eadpf
Andrew Jackson. theodore Roosevelt. in
declares: yet, although a mighty ana |
cruel foe was at their very gates, moth |
ing save fierce defiance reigned in the |
fiery Creole hearts. of the. Crescent city. !
For a master spirit was in their midsr. !
Andrew jackson. having utterly broken |
and destroyed the most powerful Indian |
confederacy that ever menaced the south |
west. and having driven the naughty |
Spaniard from Pensacola; was now, bend
lect and indonitabIe will to the one OBJ |
ject Of defending New Orleans. No man
the British. and he hated them with an |
void of fear. Born and brought up among !
the lawless characters of the frontier, |
he Vas able to Establish liz p and 4i preserve
the strfcte.t martial law in the city with.
the citizens. To restless and untiring
energy he united sleepless vigilance ard |
genuine military genius. He always
best adapted to his wild soldiery;
1T was o'clock, December g. before
pcksS Sd that With 2sqo
the rivers bank; within six miles Of
New Orleans dr. Without IT., t mome sit hest
sailow form, struck his clenched fist on Il |
table. and said: by the eternal. they |
1,"JK IT QUIETLY.
Verv quietly, later, he ate a little rice |
and dozed on sofa-the only steep he |
had thereafter for four days and nights
little over two thousand nondescript men. |
Can any one doubt from this decision |
military genius of the first half of the re- |
public, and one of the greatest of the |
a match for him in number. equipment, |
and confidence. So sure We're they of TAX
ing the city that they had actually loafed
all dav and now had gone into jolly
camp at sunset on the banks of the great
river, preferring not to hurry on. that u
would be more pleasant to march into the
city bright and early the next day. ana
not at night. They were disciplined ana
bayoneted, jolly as a lot of schoolboys,
full OF fun and fight. and confident in that
bravery that had made them the victoTs
in six years of solid fighting. I can not
think CT another general from Caesar to
Bona parte. from Washington to Lee, from
Stonewall jackson to Ulysses S. Grant,
who would not have said: II will fight
them in the morning. This afternoon {
will prepare. will barricade, 1 win
entrench, 1 will throw up my breastworks
between them and the city
And this would have been fatal. In
broad daylight Keane would have whip
ped them. No unbayoneted and undis-
ciplined militia could have stood up in
an open plain before Keane's highland
ers He would have defeated Jackson
that night but for the darkness which so
well suited the grizzled men. Who had
cat eyes for night fighting. and panther
souls for the combat, who had stalked