Show JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS He had attacked the British advance in the night of their arrival December 3rd on the Mississippi had resisted their counterattack on the 2Sth had I dismounted their guns and demolished I their batteries by the superior accuracy of his fire when they opened an artil lery duel on January 1st and when they rashly attacked his intrenchments across an open field on January Sth his backwoods riflemen mowed them down at less than two hundred yards an the mower cuts the grass Of four Major Generals present two Including Paken ham were kllJed and a thIrd wounded I r 17 r E In one regiment 505 were killed or C wounded out of a total of 775 Tho losses of the whole command were 2036 out of GOOO engaged Jackson lost only eight killed and thirteen wounded on hln own side of the river and counting the losses In Morgans command on the west bank the aggregate was only soy entyone It Is hard to find in military annuls a record of a defeat so com I piNe under such unfavorable circumstance circum-stance On the British side were reg ular tit > opv the veterans of Salamanca I and Badnjos and Clmlud Ttodrlgo I commanded by oillcers specially selected select-ed for their skill and experience In actual ac-tual war while Jackson commanded the most picturesque and motley ag gregation ever brought together two regiments of regulars two brigades of backwoodsmen forming the militia of Kentucky and Tennesee a battalion of fcce negroes a detachment of La fltten pirates n squad of French sol diem who had served under Napoleon a battalion of San Porrtingnns another of Louisiana Creoles some sailors and Jackson towering above them all rid ing the whirlwind and by the Eternal Eter-nal bringing order out of chaos Noth ing was lacking to heighten the dramatic dra-matic effect and In these three weekn Jackson gained a popularity among the masses of his countrymen Avhlch no error er-ror or Indiscretion during the subsequent subse-quent twentytwo years of his public life could ever shak 4or diminish He remained In command at New Orleans after tho clofo of the war being re tnic1 in the army in the reduction of 3815 as one of the two MajorGenerals From The United States Army by Gen F V Greene In the October Scribners |