INDEX

Adair, General John, borrows guns for Kentucky troops, 73, 77, 98 Adair, General John, commands Kentucky troops, 71 Adair, General John, Legislature votes thanks, 141 Adair, General John, rupture with Jackson, 111, 118 Adair, General John, sketch of his life, 168 American forces in night battle, 23, 51 American losses in Louisiana campaign, 123 Appendix, roster of Kentucky Militia, three regiments, 179, 202 Armstrong, Major, regiment Kentucky Militia, 187 Army, British, with great armada, 2 Army, Jackson's, strange medley, 31 Arnaud, Major, retreat on 8th, 100, 110 Baker, Colonel, battle of 8th, 73 Barataria, resort of Lafitte pirates, 19 Baratarians loyal to Americans, 21 Baratarians offer services to Jackson, 30 Battle at night, December 23d, 41 Battle, by assault, at Pensacola, 16 Battle in Mobile Bay, 15 Battle, January 8th, east bank, 76 Battle, January 8th, west bank, 99 Battle of December 28th, artillery duel, 53 Battle of Fort St. Philip, fleet repulsed, 125 Battle of gunboats with barge fleet, 27 Battle of January 1st, British in force repulsed, 56 Battle, second, in Mobile Bay, 132 Beale, Captain, in battle of 8th, 81 Beale, Captain, New Orleans Rifles, 31, 72 Beer, William, Librarian, v Bienvenue, Bayou, British invade at, 35 British army, covert retreat, 121, 126 British camp on Villere plantation, 38 British capture Fort Bowyer, Mobile Bay, 132 British designs to capture New Orleans and hold Louisiana, 146 British forces engaged in battle, January 8th, 76, 85 British forces engaged on west bank, January 8th, 93 British invade by Bayou Bienvenue, 38 British losses in battle of the 8th, 84 British losses in Louisiana campaign, 122 British mistakes, 50, 90, 101 British soldiers' laurels in European wars, 158 Butler, Adjutant-general, losses in battle of 8th, 84 Carroll, General, commands Tennessee troops, 71, 77 Carroll, General, Legislature votes thanks, 141 Carroll, General, president Court of Inquiry, 109 Chalmette plantation battle line, 53 Claiborne, Governor, and Committee of Safety, 22, 40 Claiborne, Governor, closes halls of Legislature, 139 Cobbett, William, on battle of New Orleans, 156 Cochrane, Admiral, British, 1, 41, 90 Coffee, General, Legislature votes thanks, 141 Coffee, General, Tennessee Riflemen, 43, 71, 80 Colored troops, Major Daquin's battalion, 31 Colored troops, Major Lacoste's battalion, 31 Cotton bales not used for breastworks, 59 Court-martial called, 109 Creek Indians, defeated, sue for peace, 12 Daquin, Major, battle of 8th, 72 Davis, Colonel, of Kentucky militia, 100, 110 Davis, Colonel, regiment Kentucky militia, 196 Declouet, Colonel, Louisiana troops, 46, 110, 137 Disloyal utterances give alarm, 33, 136 Disorder and chaos at New Orleans, 25 Dragoons, Mississippi, Major Hinds', 40 Duncan, Captain, reports disloyalty, 137 Durrett, R.T., Library, iii England employs entire army and navy against America on fall of Napoleon, 6 English views of campaign, 47, 60 Entrenched line, Jackson's, on January 8th, 69 Fishermen spies favor British, 37 Fleet, English, anchors off Ship Island, 24 Fleet, English Armada, sixty sail, 1 Fortified posts around New Orleans, 30 Fort Mims massacre, 11 Gaither, Doctor Horatio, surgeon Kentucky regiment, 187 Ghent, negotiations for peace put off, 7 Gibbs, General, killed in battle of 8th, 84 Gleig, Captain, English historian, 47, 60 Gleig, Captain, on battle of the 8th, 85 Gleig, Captain, on conquest of Louisiana, 148 Gleig, Captain, on the retreat of the British, 126 Gray, Colonel Presley, regiment Kentucky militia, 196 Guichard, Honorable Magloire, 46, 137 Hall, Judge, fines Jackson, 145 Hall, Judge, suppressed by Jackson, 144 Hamilton, Doctor Allen A., surgeon Kentucky regiment, 196 Harrison, Major Reuben, regiment Kentucky militia, 179 Henly, Captain, post opposite New Orleans, 55 Hill, Major, British, on cause of defeat, 88 Hinds, Major, Legislature votes thanks, 141 Hinds, Major, of Mississippi troops, 40, 75 Invasion of Louisiana, British designs, 4 Jackson appointed to command Federal army, 9 Jackson assaults and captures Pensacola, 17 Jackson attacks British at night on landing, 40 Jackson, battle on west bank, 98-121 Jackson closes Federal court, exiles judge, 144 Jackson declares martial law, 32 Jackson defeats British at Mobile Bay, 15 Jackson fortifies at Rodrique Canal, 54 Jackson, General Andrew, destroys Creek Nation, 11 Jackson marches to Mobile, then to New Orleans, 22 Jackson on British conquest of Louisiana, 157 Jackson orders suppression of Legislature, 135 Jackson, sketch of his life, 160 Jackson's alignment on January 8th, 70-76 Jackson's report to Secretary of War, 123 Johnson, Major James, regiment Kentucky militia, 196 Jones, Lieutenant, in gunboat battle, 28 Keene, General, British, 41, 80, 83 Kentucky troops, battle on west bank, 100, 110 Kentucky troops in battle of January 8th, 74 Kentucky troops, Louisiana women and men, noble conduct to, 67 Kentucky troops; neglect of government; bad condition, 64-68 Kentucky troops, reports libelous and sensational, 104 Kentucky troops, volunteer militia in War 1812-15, 174 King, Major, British, killed, 83 Labitat, General, closes legislative halls, 139 Lacoste, Major, battle of 8th, 72 Lafitte, Captain Jean, and his pirates, 18 Lafitte, Captain Jean, British overtures, 20 Lafitte, Captain Jean, reveals all to Jackson, 21 Lambert, General, succeeds Pakenham, 83, 92 La tour, Major, author "Memoirs of War," 25 Latour, Major, comments, 94, 120 Latour, Major Lacarriere, chief engineer, 2 Lauderdale, Colonel, of Mississippi troops, 47 Lawrence, Colonel William, again defends Mobile, 132 Lawrence, Colonel William, defends Mobile, 16 Legislature, complimentary resolutions, 141 Legislature, Louisiana, suppressed by Jackson, 135 Legislature orders Committee of Inquiry, 137 Legislature report exonerates members, 140 Lockyer, Captain of English barge fleet, 29 Loillier, Honorable, sent beyond Jackson's lines, 144 Louisiana troops; Plauche's battalion, Beale's Rifles, Daquin's colored battalion, Lacoste's colored battalion, Baratarians, General Morgan's division, 40-44 Marequez, Governor of Florida, aids British, 14 Marequez, Jackson's letter to, 154 Marequez surrenders Pensacola to Jackson, 17 Martial law at New Orleans, 32 McRae, Colonel, of Seventh Regulars, 40 Military operations, Northern and Middle States, 7 Mississippi troops 40, 75 Mitchusson, Colonel William, regiment Kentucky militia, 179 Mobile, British squadron repulsed at, 15 Mobile, headquarters of Jackson, 12 Morgan, General, at English Turn, 44, 52, 89 Morgan, General, command on west bank, 97, 103, 110 Mullins, Colonel, British, blamed for disaster, 88 Nichols, Colonel, address to Louisianians and Kentuckians, 15 Nichols, Colonel, British, camp at Pensacola, 14 Nichols, Colonel, on conquest of Louisiana, 149 Nichols, Colonel, sends emissaries to Lafitte, the pirate, 20 Ovations to Jackson, 145 Pakenham, death of, was heroic, 83, 157 Pakenham, Lord, Commander-in-chief, 3 Pakenham, with Generals Gibbs, Keene, and Lambert, assumes command; arrives December 25th, 56 Parker, Lieutenant-colonel, regiment Kentucky militia, 179 Patterson, battery on west bank, 55, 76, 105 Patterson, Commodore, battle of 23d, 42 Peace, news of, arrives, 133 Peire, Major, United States Regulars, 17, 51, 72 Pensacola assaulted and captured by Jackson, 16 Pensacola, capital Spanish Florida, 12 Pensacola made Indian recruiting camp by British, 14 Pentecost, Dr. John C., surgeon Kentucky regiment, 179 Plauche, Major, uniformed men, 34, 72 Providence and battle of New Orleans, 156 Rence, Colonel, British, killed, 80, 83 Rodrique Canal, Jackson's line, 52 Ross, Colonel, American, 42, 72 Seymour, Judge, William H., Latour's letter to, 119 Shelby, Governor, sketch of his life, 163 Ship Carolina burned with hot shot, 52 Ship Louisiana, destructive flanking fire, 54 Ship Louisiana saved, 52 Slaughter, Colonel, regiment Kentucky militia, 187 Slaughter, Colonel, sketch of his life, 171 Spies at Fisherman's Village, 35 Sugar hogsheads, British used on redoubts, 59 Tennessee troops in battle of January 8th, 75 Tennessee troops, more arrive, 64 Thomas, General, disabled with illness, 65 Thornton, Colonel, battalion on west bank, 100 Thornton, Colonel, British, 38 Villere, General, plantation, British camp, 38 Villere, Major, daring escape, 38 Wakefield, Major, regiment Kentucky militia, 187 Walker, Major, William, regiment Kentucky militia, 196 War Department, incapacity of, 5 Wells, Honorable Levi, debarred from Legislature, 139 West bank, military blunders, 97 West bank of river, defenses begun, 54 West bank, Patterson erects battery on, 55 Young, Colonel, of Louisiana militia, 75