Show his wio kio valor i i w when lien llen a boy lroy y the following incident fitl of the boyhood of 0 gen bakson 4 akson ia is copied from life of jackson it occurred during the partisan war in in the Wax haws oan ilin ikin that fierce scotch indian andian warfare the abs absence ence of a father from home was oftener a protection to his family than his presence because his presence invited attack the main object of both parties was to kill the fighting men and to avenge the slaying of partisans the house of the quiet Hicks Hicka for example was safe mii until it was noised about among the that hicks was at home and thus it came to passi that when a whig w soldier of any note desired to spend a night with his family his liti neighbors ebors were accustomed to turn out and serve as a guard to his house while be he slept behold robert and andrew jackson with six others thus emp employed oyed one night in the spring of 1781 at the of a nei nel neighbor abor capt 9 sa sands ads the guard on this occasion was wag more ari arl friendly endly tribute to an active partisan than a service considered necessary to his safety in short the night was not far advanced before the thin whole party were snugly housed and stretched upon the floor all sound asleep except one a british deserter who was restless and dozed at intervals danger was near A band land of tories bent on ich taking the life of capt sands approached the house intro divisions one ane party moving towa pigs rigs the front door the other toward tlde tide the b back ithe e wakeful soldier hearing a jise rose roselye went lit out ont ut of doors to learn its causer and saw the foe stealthily nearing the house he ran in terror terrol and seizing andrew J 1 I ackson who lay next the door doory by the hair exclaimed ilythe the tories are upon us ahdrew ahdrew sprang up and ran out seeing a body 0 0 of 1 men en in the distance he placed the end ohis f gun un in the lower fork of a tree near the door 9 an and hailed ailed them no reply ile he hailed balled t them e aseron a second time no reply they quickened their pace and had come within a few fawl rods of the door doon by this time too the guard an fn in 1 the house had been roused and were gathered in a group behind the boy andrew discharged his musket upon which the tories fired a volley which killed the caplen deser t ter who had given the alarm the tile other par ties of tories who were approaching the house from the other side hearing this discharge and tb th erush of bullets above their heads enthat the firing issued from apart a party that had issued from th enouse elouse they now fired ired a vol sent a shower of balls whistling about the heads of 0 their friends on the other I 1 side elde i both parties hesitated and then halted I 1 andrew having haying thus by his bis single dischar puzzled and nd stopped the enemy retired to the tt house 01 se where he be and his hia comrades were one of the guard fell mortally wounded by bib bis side and another received a wound fess less severe in the midst of this thia singular contest a bugle was wag I 1 heard some igme distance off so anding the cavalry charge where whereupon apon the t tor or cs es concluding conc concluding ludin iudin that they had come upon an ambush of while whigs s and were about to be assailed by horse horsa ana and foot fled nowhere to where they had left their ed dashed pell peli mell meli into the woods and were vlen vien geen seen no more mone it appeared afterwards afterward 1 that tei thi th bugle charge was sounded by a neighbor who judging from the noise of musketry musketry y that ca pt t sands was attacked and ha having v ing not a s single I 1 i inan man with him in his house gave the bl blast seu acu ulion on the trumpet chinkin thinking that even a 1 trick io so stale aided by the dar darkness of the night might have some effect in alai alarming the assailants I 1 |