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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Chronology of the day--battle of New Orleans. (search)
815, Sunday, occurred the great "battle of New Orleans." The Americans —— principally militia and volunteers, from Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee--under Major Gen. Andrew Jackson, five miles below the city of New Orleans, defeated the flower of the veteran troops of Great Britain, with dreadful and most incredible slaughter. The British troops, numbering 14,450 men, were commanded by Major Gen. Field Marshal Packenham, who was killed. The British naval force was under Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane. The Americans, on the other hand, were commanded by four Generals, three of whom were Generals of militia, who, like their men, were agriculturists or planters, and had left their homes, like their men, from patriotic motives, on the spur of the occasion. Geo. Packenham was killed by a cannon ball from battery No. 7, which was commanded by Gen. Garrigues. The action commenced at dawn of day, and lasted until 8 o'clock. The Americans lost in the line during the battle b
The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Major Anderson in Congress. (search)
Major Anderson in Congress. --In the House of Representatives, Mr. Adrain, of New Jersey, introduced a set of resolutions approving of the course of Major Anderson, and pledging support to the President in all constitutional measures to enforce the laws and preserve the Union. The resolutions were adopted — ayes 124, nays 55. The Republicans voted aye, in a body. The Northern Democrats divided — for, while Messrs. Cochrane, Sickles, and MacClay, of New York city, went with the Republicans, Messrs. Florence, of Pa., Vallandigham, of Ohio, and Scott, of California, voted with the South. Some of these gentlemen, voting nay, explained that if the resolution had been confined, simply, to a commendation of Major Anderson, they would have supported it — but believing its effect in the present excited state of the country would do more harm than good, they must vote against it. On the other hand, some members from the South would have given it their support, but from the fact that th<