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Title: Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Publisher: Hartford, Belknap and Hamersley Philadelphia, M. Bomberger (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ne far, when he receivedintelligence that Colonel Buford, who had arrived toolate to be able to throw succour into Charleston, hadtaken post on the banks of the Santee, with a con.si-derable body of horse and foot. He instantly detachedhis ablest and most savage cavalry officer, ColonelTarleton, who made a march of one hundred and fivemiles in fifty-four hours, surprised Buford at the Wax-haws, and completely routed his band. Buford, afew of the cavalry, and about one hundred infantry,effected their retreat; the remainder surrendered, andwere nearly all butchered by order of the inhumanTarleton. This affair was bitterly remembered du-rino( the rest of the war under the name of Tarle-toris Quarter. A British writer, in speaking of it,says, Tarleton, who was a sort of partisan officer,who made war like a guerilla, and whose legion wascomposed of the desperadoes of the army, never pre-served that degree of discipline which was common tothe rest of the army: his own character, the charac-
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WAXHAW MASSACRE. 27 ter of his men, and the desperate, dare-devil serviceon which they were ahiiost constantly employed, wereirreconcilable with the milder spirit and gentler habitsof troops of the line, kept constantly under the eyeof the commander-in-chief and staff. On the presentoccasion, their victory seems to have been disgracedby a slaughter, which was the less pardonable, as theirown loss was so very trifling, amounting only to fivekilled and fifteen wounded. The wounded survivors of this dreadful massacre*were brought into the Waxhaw meeting-house, andtaken care of by the inhabitants; and Andrew Jack-sons mother and himself were among the most activeand humane in this labour of love and patriotism. Chntons two other detachments saw no enemy ontheir march; but they received the submission of theinhabitants, who either gave their paroles to the com-manding officers, or took the oath of allegiance. The events which succeeded the massacre at theWaxhaws, are thus described by Lee:

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