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found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=112210update&id=I00362
ID: I00362
Name: George Walker Garrett
Sex: M
Birth: 1791 in VA
Death: 30 SEP 1870 in Ruckersville, Tippah Co, MS
Military Service: BET NOV 1814 AND MAY 1815 War of 1812 (Battle of New Orleans)
Burial: Ruckersville, Tippah Co, MS
Note:
History and migration of George W. Garrett:
1791 birth: Born in VA (month/day & county unknown)
1797 move: Possible move from VA to TN; see John Garrett land purchase in 1797;
(This info is pending confirmation of John Garrett, Sr. as the father of George W. Garrett.)
1812 census: 1812 census of Davidson Co, TN militia (In Nashville)
1813 to 1814: Served in Creek Indian War campaigns in Georgia and Alabama Territory
1814 military: Enlisted for War of 1812 service (11-13-1814) at Camp Flynns (See town of Flynns Lick in Jackson Co, TN)
1815 military: Mustered out of military service (5-13-1815) at Nashville
1817 marriage: Franklin, Williamson Co, TN (2-10-1817) to Harriett Anderson*
1819 politics: Vernon, Hickman Co, TN; George W. Garrett appointed county commissioner
1820 census: Hickman Co, TN; town of Vernon;
(Vernon was a pioneer town located on the Piney River, just west of the present-day town of Nunnelly.)
1820 child: Hickman Co, TN; 1st son (John) born
1829 move: Wayne Co, TN; in Hickman Co, TN 1828; in Wayne Co, TN 1830
1830 census: Wayne Co, TN; 2 adults; & 4 children (2M/2F)
1836 tax list: Wayne Co, TN; in District #3;
(Residence was in the extreme northern part of the county, on the Buffalo River, near Flatwoods.)
1837 move: Tippah Co, MS; in Wayne Co, TN 1836; in Tippah Co, MS 1838;
(The move to Mississippi could have been in 1836.)
1838 tax list: Tippah Co, MS
1840 census: Tippah Co, MS; 2 adults; & 8 children (3M/5F); all but William;
(See note below the following listed 1840 census which explains an obvious error by census taker.)
1841 census: Tippah Co, MS; 4M/6F;
(Eldest son John reported in this household; he married Mary Ann Fryar in 1841; he was also reported in a separate household.)
1844 child: Tippah Co, MS; last child born (William)
1850 census: Tippah Co, MS; 2 adults & 6 children (2M/4F)
1856 tax list: Tippah Co, MS
1860 census: Tippah Co, MS; 2 adults & 2 children (1M/1F); Eliza Jane & William
1866 census: Tippah Co, MS; George's wife (Harriett) not listed in state census
1870 death: Tippah Co, MS; 9-30-1870 (see obituary shown below)
* See notes under Branch H. Anderson (Harriett's father) who witnessed the marriage.
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Selected persons (Garrett) Listed in the 1812 Head of Household Census of Davidson Co, TN:
709. John Garrett (Capt. Barnhart's Militia Co.) --- Brother of George W. Garrett? (If John Garrett, Sr. is father.)
894. George Garrett (In Nashville & Vicinity) --- George W. Garrett (This subject.)
901. Thomas Garrett (In Nashville & Vicinity) --- Brother of George W. Garrett? (If John Garrett, Sr. is father.)
1540. Thomas Garrett (Capt. Campbell's Militia Co.)
1550. Morris Garrett (Capt. Campbell's Militia Co.)
1767. Martin Garrett (Capt. Roger's Old Militia Co.)
2105. William Garrett (Capt. Bening's Militia Co.)
2109. Richard Garrett (Capt. Bening's Militia Co.) --- Possibly kin to George W. Garrett due to the repeat of name Richard in family.
Note: For historical reference, the population of Nashville in 1810 was 1,100.
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War of 1812 Service (Including the Battle of New Orleans):
George W. Garrett was a private in Colonel Metcalf's 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia in the brigade under Major General William Carroll. The regimental captains under whom George W. Garrett served were Lewis Dillahunty and Daniel M. Bradford. (Under Captain Bradford during the Battle of New Orleans.)
COLONEL WILLIAM METCALF
DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia
DATES: November 1814 - May 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Bedford, Franklin, Lincoln, Maury, Warren, and Giles Counties
CAPTAINS: John Barnhart, Daniel M. Bradford, Barbe Collins, John Cunningham, Lewis Dillahunty, Alexander Hill, Bird S. Hurt, John Jackson, Thomas Marks, William Mullen, Andrew Patterson, William Sitton, Obadiah Waller.
Colonel Metcalf's 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia was part of General Carroll's brigade at New Orleans. The regiment comprised the right section of Carroll's line at the breastworks at Chalmette. Muster rolls show casualties in the engagements of December 1814 and January 1815. Captain Daniel Bradford led the elite corps known as "Carroll's Life Guard." The division reached New Orleans on December 21, 1814 after an excursion down the Mississippi River.
George W. Garrett enlisted at Camp Flynns in Jackson Co, TN on November 13, 1814; fought in the Battle of New Orleans Dec 1814/Jan 1815; and mustered out at Nashville on May 13, 1815. Pay per month, 10 dollars, total amount of pay 60 dollars. (See Battle of New Orleans below.)
George's younger brother, Caleb Garrett (b. 1795 VA) served in the same militia unit in the Battle of New Orleans.
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Other Military Service:
Records show that George W. Garrett and brother Caleb Garrett also served in Cocke's 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia; both had prior service in late 1813 and early 1814 in engagements under General Andrew Jackson to suppress Creek Indian uprisings in Georgia and Alabama Territory. See The Battle of Horseshoe Bend below for one of the engagements of this campaign. They also served in the Tennessee militia during 1815 and 1816.
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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
In March 1814, General Jackson's army left Fort Williams on the Coosa, cut a 52-mile trail through the forest in three days, and on the 26th made camp six miles north of Horseshoe Bend. The next morning, Jackson sent General John Coffee and 700 mounted infantry and 600 Cherokee and Lower Creek allies three miles down-stream to cross the Tallapoosa and surround the bend. He took the rest of the army - about 2000 men, consisting of East and West Tennessee militia and the Thirty-ninth U.S. Infantry - into the peninsula and at 10:30 a.m. began an ineffectual two-hour artillery bombardment of the Red Sticks' log barricade. At noon, some of Coffee's Cherokees crossed the river and assaulted the Red Sticks from the rear. Jackson quickly ordered a frontal bayonet charge, which poured over the barricade. Fighting ranged over the south end of the peninsula throughout the afternoon. By dark at least 800 of Chief Menawa's 1,000 Red Sticks were dead (557 slain on the field and 200-300 in the river). Menawa himself, although severely wounded, managed to escape. Jackson's losses in the battle were 49 killed and 154 wounded, many mortally.
Though the Red Sticks had been crushed at Tohopeka, the remnants of the hostile Creeks held out for several months. In August 1814, exhausted and starving, they surrendered to Jackson at Wetumpka, near the present city of Montgomery, Alabama. The Treaty of Fort Jackson ending the conflict required the Creeks to cede some 20 million acres of land - more than half of their ancestral territorial holdings - to the United States. The state of Alabama was carved out of this domain and admitted to the Union in 1819.
Source: http://www.nps.gov/hobe/home/parkhistory.htm
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1819 Political Office of George W. Garrett:
Tennessee State Library and Archives - Historical and Genealogical Information
ACTS OF TENNESSEE 1796 - 1830; (Internet: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/g-1.htm)
Name Date Serial# Chap. & Sect. Description
Garrett, George 1819 23 46.1 Hickman County - Vernon commissioner
Information on Vernon, Tennessee:
(Internet: http://www.hickmanco.com)
In 1807, Hickman County extended all the way to the present Alabama state line, and Vernon, on the Piney River, became the first county seat. By 1820 several new counties had been created out of Hickman County, and a movement began to move the county seat to a more central location. In 1823, the new town of Centerville became the county seat. As a result of the bitterness over the change, the old log courthouse at Vernon was dismantled at night and hauled to Centerville, along with the court records. (Vernon was located on the Piney River, just west of the present-day town of Nunnelly.)
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1820 census: Hickman Co, TN; Page 128 (5th name from top).
MALES:
0-0-0-0-1-0
FEMALES:
1-1-1-0-0-0
MALES:
*****Under 10=0
Of 10-Under 16=0
Between 16-18=0
Of 16-Under 26=0
Of 26-Under 45=1 (George)
******Of 45&Up=0
FEMALES:
*****Under 10=1 (?)
Of 10-Under 16=1 (?)
Of 16-Under 26=1 (Harriett)
Of 26-Under 45=0
******Of 45&Up=0
Note: It is reported that George W. Garrett and family lived in the town of Vernon in 1819. The two female children listed in this census are unknown.
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1824 marriage in Davidson Co, TN witnessed by George W. Garrett; connection to the subject George W. Garrett unknown.
Robert Trotter married Parmelia Hoffman, January 22, 1824 in Davidson Co, TN, Page 279, Bondsman, George W. Garrett.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/metroarchives/marriage1823.html
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1828 Court Case of George W. Garrett (Hickman Co, TN):
The judge in Hickman County was removed from the bench in 1828 for sleeping during the trial of George W. Garrett in Centerville. Garrett who was being tried for playing cards on Sunday was acquitted of the charge.
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1830 census: Wayne Co, TN; Page 5. (George W. Garrett household)
MALES:
0-2-0-0-0-1
FEMALES:
2-0-0-0-1-0
MALES:
__0-5=0
_5-10=2
10-15=0
15-20=0
20-30=0
30-40=1
FEMALES:
__0-5=2
_5-10=0
10-15=0
15-20=0
20-30=1
30-40=0
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History of Wayne County, Tennessee:
The first settlers of Wayne County were mainly from the older counties of Middle Tennessee and from North and South Carolina. The early settlements were made on North Carolina military grants, occupants' claims and warrants. The first settlement was made by Frederick Meredith, Mark F. Edwards, William Henton, Lovick Rasbury, Richard Churchwell and Craig W. Pope, on Buffalo River in 1815. On Hardin Creek were Isaac G. Grimes, Henry Grimes, Peter Renfrow and John Johnson, in 1816. Thomas G. Harvey, Charles Burns, James Reeves, Samuel Loggans and William Scott settled on Green River in 1816 and 1817. On Indian Creek Henry and John Rayburn, Jesse and Baker Cypert, Benjamin and David Schull settled in 1818. James Surrett settled on the east fork of Hardin Creek in 1819. David Gallaher and John Dixon settled on Shoal Creek in 1818. William B. Payne, William B. Walker, Joseph Staggs, Nathan Biffle and Isaac Robertson settled on Forty-eight Mile Creek in 1818. Other settlers in different parts of the county before 1820 were Jacob Biffle in the Eight District, where land was entered in 1812; David Carter, assignee of Elizabeth Walker, also in the Eighth District; also William B. Ross, Joseph Denton, Wiley Harrington, Thomas Reeves, J. W. Nunley, T. Gambel, Daniel Cherry, Jacob Fraley, J. R. Russell, John Gibson and J. P. Walker. John Watson settled on Hardin Creek in 1820, and Lewis Johnson and Henry Colston on Beech Creek about the same time. The following entered lands before 1820: Michael Robertson, Henson Grove, Mark F. Edwards, Isaac Rice, William Williams, Thomas G. Harvey, James H. Gambel, Alexander Steele, James R. Russell, Daniel Voorhees, Samuel Mayfield, John Meredith, John Duke, R. P. Scoot, John McCulley, David Carter, John Welch, Allen Brown, James Davis, James Collins, John Mitchell, G. W. Garrett, R. C. Harris. John Akin, S. Read, J. L. Smith, James Davis, James Elliot, John Brown, James Staggs, W. B. and James P. Walker, Jesse Thompson and the Morris family. The first water and tub-mills in county were build on Moccasin Creek, in 1818, by John Meredith; the first horse-mill was built by John O. Roberts, on Beech Creek, in 1820. The first cotton-gin was built near where old Carrollville stood, by William B. Ross, in 1819. The first ferry across the Tennessee River, within the limits of the county, was established in 1818 at Carrollville, but the owner of the ferry is unknown.
Source: http://www.netease.net/wayne/history.htm
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1836/1837 move to Tippah Co, MS:
Early in the 19th century, Native Americans inhabited most of north Mississippi. This changed on February 9, 1836 with the Chickasaw Indian Cession, a treaty that instigated the removal of most of the Indians in north Mississippi. Soon after, settlers began pouring into this area of Mississippi, mostly from other parts of the South.
There were twelve counties formed in north Mississippi with the opening of the Chickasaw Indian Cession lands in 1836. George W. Garrett was living in Wayne Co, TN in early 1836, but it is believed that he moved to Tippah Co, MS later in 1836 or in early 1837. (Tippah County was one of the twelve counties formed in north Mississippi.)
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1840 census: Tippah Co, MS
The following households were listed consecutively on page 188 of the census:
Garrett Fryar 4M/9F
Julius Willhite 2M/1F
Isaac Fryar 7M/3F
George W. Garrett 4M/6F
Also listed elsewhere on the same page (page 188) was George Willhite - 7M/5F
(All but George W. Garrett & George Willhite moved to Montgomery Co, AR in 1849; George Garrett's oldest son John B. Garrett also moved to this county in 1849.)
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1840 census: Tippah Co, MS; Page 188. (George W. Garrett household)
MALES:
----0-5=0
--5-10=1 <-- George W. (Jr.)
10-15=0
15-20=2 <-- John and Caleb
20-30=0
30-40=0
40-50=1
50-60=0
60-70=0
The FEMALES in the household ARE LISTED as follows:
----0-5=0
--5-10=2
10-15=1
15-20=2
20-30=0
30-40=0
40-50=1
50-60=0
60-70=0
The FEMALES in the household SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTED as follows:
----0-5=2 <-- Eliza Jane and Sarah
--5-10=1 <-- Harriett
10-15=2 <-- "Unknown" and Mary
15-20=0
20-30=0
30-40=1
40-50=0
50-60=0
60-70=0
This reporting was an obvious error in the census record of 1840.
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1850 census: Tippah Co, MS; 3rd Division; Dwlg# 500; October 3, 1850; Page 526B.
Garrett, George W. 59 VA
Garrett, Harriett 48 VA
Garrett, Mary 21 TN
Garrett, George W. 18 TN
Garrett, Harriet 16 TN
Garrett, Jane 14 TN
Garrett, Sarah 11 MS
Garrett, William 6 MS
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1860 census: Tippah Co, MS; Northern Division; Ruckersville; Dwlg# 226; June 20, 1860; Page 474B.
Garrett, George 69 M VA
Garrett, Harriett 59 F VA
Garrett, E. J. 20 F MS
Garrett, William A. 16 M MS
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1866 state census: Tippah Co, MS
1 - Male 70-80 = George W. Garrett, Sr.
1 - Female 20-30 = Eliza J. Garrett
1 - Female 40-50 = ?
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SOUTHERN SENTINEL (Ripley):
GARRETT, GEORGE W. dec. (PR 190) 1. Bill filed January, 1872. George W. Garrett died Sept. 30, 1870. His wife died before him. Heirs are (a) Caleb Garrett of Lee Co., Mississippi (b) Sarah Moody, wife of Abner Moody, of Lee Co., Mississippi (c) the children of John Garrett (late son of G.W. Garrett): Missouri A. McConnell (wife of Willis McConnell of Montgomery Co., Arkansas, post office Mt. Ida), William Samuel Garrett of the same address, and James K. Polk Garrett of the same address, and one other, name unknown (d) the children of William Garrett (late son of G.W. Garrett): George A. Garrett, Charles Garrett, and William Garrett, who live with their mother, Leannor Garrett (e) Harriett Gardner, wife of R. B. Gardner and daughter of G.W. Garrett dec., and her children: John William Gardner, George Gardner, Sarah Gardner, all of Lee Co., Mississippi / petition is signed by G.W. Garrett Jr.
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Loose Probate Records Montgomery County, Arkansas, No. 190:
G. W. Garrett et al vs Caleb Garett et al, Received of A. C. Rucker Commissioner in the case of G. W. Garrett et al v. Caleb Garrett et al in the Chancery Court of Tippah County, Miss. the sum of $29.27 in full of our distribution share of proceeds of sale of land belonging to the estate of G. W. Garrett Senr decd, this the 16th day of November 1881.
William S. (X his mark) Garrett
J. P. Garrett
Mary A. (X her mark) Smith
J. N. Smith
Heirs at law of G. W. Garrett
State of Arkansas }
County of Montgomery } G. D. Goodner Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Montgomery aforesaid do hereby certify that the forgoing and attached receipt was signed in my presence and that the parties whose names are signed thereto are heirs at law of George W. Garrett Sr. declared by right of their father Jno. B. Garrett.
Witness my hand and official seal this 16th day of November A.D. 1881.
G. D. Goodner Clerk
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Battle of New Orleans:
On Nov 1814 Major General William Carroll called for volunteers to defend New Orleans against an expected attack by the British. Colonel William Metcalf formed the 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia. [George and Caleb Garrett were originally in Captain Lewis Dillahunty's company of this regiment; but later in Captain Daniel Bradford's company. They were mustered into service on Nov 15, 1814 at Camp Flynns, Jackson County, Tennessee.] On Nov 21 they left Nashville by boat, and arrived in Clarksville on Nov 24. They made a fairly fast trip to New Orleans for they were at the mouth of the Cumberland River on Dec 1, at Natchez on Dec 14, and finally landed on Dec 20, 1814 about four miles above New Orleans. They had traveled 1,300 miles by boat in about 30 days. There they made camp, cleaned weapons, mended clothing, and drilled by company. When they arrived in New Orleans the Tennessee Militia did not make a very good impression on the people of New Orleans with their clothing, etc.
"Their appearance was not very military. In their woolen hunting shirts and copperas (greenish color) dyed pantaloons, with slouched hats made from the skins of raccoons or foxes; with belts of untanned deerskin in which were stuck their hunting knives and tomahawks; with their long unkempt hair and unshorn faces .... but were admirable soldiers, remarkable for endurance and possessing that admirable quality in soldiers of being able to take care of themselves."
Another eyewitness wrote of Carroll's Tennessee Militiamen: "These men carried nothing but their carouch-boxes and powder horns; their bullets were usually in their pantaloons pockets; they had no idea whatever of military order and discipline; they paid attention only to the more important part of their calling, which, according to their notions, was quietly to pick out their man, fix him in their aim, and bring him down. After the British had landed about 8 miles below New Orleans, Gen. Jackson on Dec 23 ordered Gen. Carroll and his Tennesseans into New Orleans, and to be ready to move at a moments notice. During Jackson's night attack of the 23rd against the British, Gen. Carroll's Tennesseans did not take part. On the 24th Jackson put his troops in a defensive position along Rodriquez Canal several miles below New Orleans. The canal extended from the Mississippi River for 900 yards to a swamp. Carroll's men were moved on the 26th to the left center of the line, and they covered the area to the swamp. There they worked without stopping on the breastworks of the lines. In order to discover the nature of Jackson's defenses, the British made a small attack on the 28th. The British thought that the area next to the swamp was the weakest, but Carroll's Tennesseans were able to stop the attack. There they lived until the battle on the 8th of Jan.
"Unshaven, dirty, they lived for over seven days waist-deep in mud, chilled by the intermittent rains, surrounded by the stench of the decaying marshlands, threatened by lurking danger in the shadows of the cypress trees. Yet they had one complaint: If we could only see the redcoats within fair buck range."
But at night they came into their own, as Latour states: "The Tennesseans, on account of their well-known skill at the rifle, were the terror of the British sentinels and advanced posts. Their uniform consisted of a brown hunting shirt, ('because of this the British called them dirty shirts'), which rendered it difficult to perceive them among the underwood and dry grass through which they approached to shoot down the British sentinels, whom they never missed. Finally when dawn of 8th of Jan arrived, the Tennesseans discovered the enemy occupying the space between the woods and the Mississippi. The British having perceived that the left part of Jackson's line was weak, Carroll's Tennesseans would bear the brunt of the attack. On their first charge the British were met by a withering volley from Carroll's men, and the British took to their heels and fled. Then Carroll's men were attacked by Scottish Highlanders. Again the Tennesseans showed no respect for their enemy and opened a murderous fire upon the Highlanders. "The whole line from Carroll's Tennesseans to the swamp was almost one solid blaze. Four men deep, the ranks of the Tennesseans never stopped for breath. As fast as one man fired he stepped back for the next to take his place. By the time the fourth line had discharged its rifles, the first was taking aim again. There were barely fifteen hundred rifles in the line yet scarcely a rifle failed to find its mark. The redcoats fell like blades of grass beneath the scythe." a British officer recorded.
Sources:
1) Tennessee State Library and Archives Historical and Genealogical Information; Brief History of Tennessee in the War of 1812 and Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812.
2) Arsène LaCarrière Latours Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15, selected eyewitness accounts of the Battle of New Orleans. Major Latour, who was General Andrew Jacksons principal army engineer, began interviewing witnesses and key participants in order to create a comprehensive record based on first-hand accounts.
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THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
From "Harper's New Monthly Magazine"
No. CXVI January, 1860 Vol. XX.
A BALLAD OF LOUISIANA
BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH
Here, in my rude log-cabin,
Few poorer men there be
Among the mountain ranges
Of western Tennessee.
My limbs are weak and shrunken,
White hairs upon my brow;
My dog lie still, old fellow!
My sole companion now;
Yet I, when young and lusty,
Have gone through stirring scenes,
For I went down with Carroll,
To fight at New Orleans.
You say you'd like to hear me
The stirring story tell
Of those who stood the battle
And those who fighting fell.
Short work to count our losses;
We stood and dropped the foe,
As easily as by fire-light
Men shoot a buck or doe;
And while they fell by hundreds
Upon the bloody plain,
Of us fourteen were wounded,
And only eight were slain.
The eighth of January,
Before the break of day,
Our raw and hasty levies
Were brought into array,
No cotton-bales before us ---
Some fool that falsehood told ---
Before us was an earth-work,
Built from the swampy mould;
And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The bull-dogs of the crown.
The heavy fog of morning
Still hid the plain from sight,
When came a thread of scarlet,
Marked faintly in the white.
We fired a single cannon,
And as its thunder rolled,
The mist before us lifted
In many a heavy fold.
The mist before us lifted,
And, in their bravery fine,
Came rushing to their ruin,
The fearless British line.
Then from our waiting cannons
Leaped forth the deadly flame,
To meet the solid columns
That swift and steady came.
The thirty-twos of Crawley,
And Bluche's twenty-four,
To Spotte's eighteen-pounders
Responded with a roar ---
Sending the grape-shot deadly
That marked its pathway plain,
And paved the road it traveled
With corses of the slain.
Our rifles firmly grasping
And heedless of the din,
We stood in silence waiting
For orders to begin.
Our fingers on the triggers,
Our hearts with anger stirred,
Grew still more fierce and eager
As Jackson's voice we heard ---
"Stand steady! Waste no powder!
Wait till your shots will tell!
To-day the work you finish;
See that you do it well!"
Their columns drawing nearer
We felt our patience tire,
When came the voice of Carroll,
Distant and measured --- "Fire!"
Oh! then you should have marked us
Our volleys on them pour,
Have heard our joyous rifles
Ring sharply through the roar;
And seen their foremost columns
Melt hastily away,
As snow in mountain gorges
Before the floods of May.
They soon re-formed their columns
And, mid the fatal rain
We never ceased to hurtle,
Came to their work again.
The Forty-fourth is with them,
That first its laurels won
With stout old Abercrombie
Beneath an Eastern sun.
It rushes to the battle,
And though within the rear
Its leader is a laggard,
It shows no sign of fear.
It did not need its colonel,
For soon there came instead
An eagle-eyed commander,
And on its march he led.
'Twas Packenham in person,
The leader of the field;
I knew it by the cheering
That loudly round him pealed.
And by his quick, sharp movement
We felt his heart was stirred,
As when at Salamanca
He led the fighting Third.
I raised my rifle quickly,
I sighted at his breast ---
God save the gallant leader,
And take him to his rest!
I did not draw the trigger,
I could not for my life;
So calm he set his charger
Amid the deadly strife,
That, is my fiercest moment,
A prayer arose from me ---
"God save that gallant leader,
Our foeman though he be!"
Sir Edward's charger staggers,
He leaps at once to ground,
And, ere the brute falls bleeding,
Another horse has found.
His right arm falls! 'tis wounded!
He waves on high his left;
In vain he leads the movement;
The ranks in twain are cleft.
The men in scarlet waver
Before the men in brown;
And fly in utter panic
The soldiers of the crown.
I thought the work was over,
But newer shouts were heard;
And came with Gibbs to lead it,
The gallant Ninety-third.
Then Packenham exulting,
With proud and joyous glance,
Cried, "Children of the Tartan!
Bold Highlanders advance!
Advance to scale the breast-works,
And drive them from their hold,
And show the stainless courage
That marked your sires of old!"
His voice as yet was ringing,
When quick as light there came
The roaring of a cannon,
And the earth seemed all aflame.
Who causes thus the thunder
The doom of men to speak?
It is the Baratarian ---
The fearless Dominique!
Down through the marshaled Scotsmen
The step of death is heard,
As by the fierce toronado
Falls half the Ninety-third.
The smoke passed slowly upward,
And as it soared on high
I saw the brave commander
In dying anguish lie
They bear him from the battle,
Who never fled the foe;
Unmoved by death around them,
His bearers softly go.
In vain their care so gentle ---
Fades earth and all its scenes;
The Man of Salamanca
Lies dead at New Orleans.
But where were his lieutenants?
Had they in terror fled?
No! Keane was sorely wounded,
And Gibbs was good as dead.
Brave Wilkinson commanding,
A Major of Brigade,
The shattered force to rally
A final effort made.
He led it up our ramparts ---
Small glory did he gain;
Our captives some, while others fled,
And he himself was slain.
The stormers had retreated,
The bloody work was o'er;
The feet of the invaders
Were soon to leave our shore.
We rested on our rifles,
And talked about the fight,
When ran a sudden murmur
Like fire from left to right.
We turned and saw our chieftain,
And then, good friend of mine.
You should have heard the cheering
That rang along the line.
For well our men remembered
How little when they came,
Had they but native courage,
And trust in Jackson's name;
How through the day he labored,
How kept the vigils still,
Till discipline controlled us,
A stronger power than will;
And how he hurled us at them,
Within the evening hour,
That red night in December,
And made us feel our power.
In answer to our shouting,
Fire lit his eyes of gray;
Erect, but thin and pallid,
He passed upon his bay.
Weak from the baffled fever,
And shrunken in each limb,
The swamps of Alabama
Had done their work on him;
But spite of that and fasting,
And hours of sleepless care,
The soul of Andrew Jackson
Shone forth in glory there.
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HintsAncestry Hints for George Walker Garrett
1 possible matches found on Ancestry.com Ancestry.com
Father: John Garrett b: ABT 1750 in VA
Mother: Jane Taylor b: BEF 1755 in VA
Marriage 1
Harriett Anderson b: 1801 in Charlotte Co, VA
Married: 10 FEB 1817 in Franklin, Williamson Co, TN
Children
1.Has Children John B. Garrett b: 1820 in Vernon, Hickman Co, TN
2.Has Children Caleb Garrett b: DEC 1822 in Vernon, Hickman Co, TN
3.Has No Children Daughter Garrett b: BET 1825 AND 1827 in Vernon, Hickman Co, TN
4.Has No Children Mary Garrett b: ABT 1829 in Wayne Co, TN
5.Has Children George Walker Garrett , Jr. b: 4 OCT 1831 in Wayne Co, TN
6.Has Children Harriett J. Garrett b: ABT 1834 in Wayne Co, TN
7.Has No Children Eliza Jane Garrett b: ABT 1836 in Wayne Co, TN
8.Has Children Sarah Margaret Garrett b: 8 MAY 1839 in Ruckersville, Tippah Co, MS
9.Has Children William Autrey Garrett b: 5 JUN 1844 in Ruckersville, Tippah Co, MS
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S Butler and S Hibbs Family History Our Family's Journey Through Time
1791 - 1870 (79 years)
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