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Title: The library of American history, literature and biography ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909 Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: American literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J. C. Winston Co

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strongmind, much intelligence, but very little culture. They had no children, butadopted a son of one of Mrs. Jacksons sisters. This boy became the pride,the joy, the hope of the generals life. Soon after, he received another littlenephew into his family, whom he nurtured and educated. It is said that thiswonderfully irascible man was never even impatient with wife, children, orservants. A young friend of Jackson, by the name of William Carroll, challengedJesse Benton, a younger brother of Colonel Thomas H. Benton, to a duel.Jackson, then forty-six years of age, somewhat reluctantly acted as second toCarroll. Both parties were wounded, young Benton quite severely. Thisroused the indig^nation of Colonel Thomas H. Benton, who had conferred some 590 AFFRAY WITH THE BENTONS. signal favors on Jackson, and he vowed vengeance. Meeting the Bentonbrothers soon after at a Nashville hotel, a bloody affray followed, in whichJacksons arm and shoulder were horribly shattered by two balls and a slug
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THE INDIAN S DECLARATION OF WAR. from the pistol of Jesse Benton. Jacksons wounds were very severe. While he was lingering, haggard and wan, upon a bed of suffering, news came that the Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh, from Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white settlers, were committing the most awful ravages. Decisive action AXDKEW JACKSOh: 59 r became necessary. General Jackson, with his fractured bones just beginning toheal, his arm in a sling, and unable to mount his horse without assistance, gavehis amazing energies to the raising of an army to rendezvous at Fayetteville,on the borders of Alabama, on the 4th of October, 1813. FIGHTING THE INDIANS. The Creek Indians had established a strong fort on one of the bends of theTallapoosa River, near the centre of Alabama, about fifty miles below FortStrother. With an army of two thousand men, General Jackson traversed thepathless wilderness in a march of eleven days. He reached their fort, calledTohopeca, or Horseshoe,

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