Tennessee at the Battle of New Orleans

by Elbert L. Watson

[34]. “A Contemporary Account of the Battle of New Orleans by a Soldier in the Ranks,” in The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, I (1926), 15.

[35]. John Coffee to Mary Donelson Coffee, New Orleans, January 20, 1815, in Tennessee Historical Magazine, II (1916), 290.

[36]. Ibid.

[37]. Stanley Clisby Arthur, The Story of the Battle of New Orleans (New Orleans, 1915), 247.

[38]. John Coffee to Mary Donelson Coffee, New Orleans, January 30, 1815, in Tennessee Historical Magazine, II (1916), 291.

[39]. Latour, op. cit., Appendix, clxxxv.

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APPENDIX
Jackson Reports On Battle

Letter from Major-General Jackson
to the Secretary of War.

Camp, four miles below Orleans, 9th January, 1815.