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Show 524 LH'E OF GEN. JACKSON. CHAP. and take possession of all the muskets, bayonets, .,..I,X... _.spad es, and axes h e coul d fi n d . U nd erstand.m g too, 1814• there were many young men, who, from different pretexts, had not appeared in the field, he was instructed to obtain a register of every man in the city, under the age of fifty, that measures might be concerted for drawing forth those, who had hitherto appeared backward, in engaging in the pending contest. Frequent light skirmishes, by advanced parties, without much effect on either ~ide, were all that took place for several days. Colonel Hinds, at the head of the Mississippi dragoons, on the 30th, was ordered to dislodge a party of the enemy, who, under cover of a ditch that ran across the plain, were annoying our fatigue parties. In his advance, he was unexpectedly thrown between them, and became exposed to the fire of a line, which had hitherto lain concealed and unobserved. His collected conduct, and gallant deportment, gained him and his corps the approbation of the commanding general, and extricated him from the danger he was in. The enemy retired, and he retnnl· cd to the line, with the loss of five of his men, |
