25. _Ibid._ 26. Latour, _op. cit._, 107. 27. Going down the river the following six plantations comprised the principal theater of action: Macarty, Chalmette, Bienvenu, De la Ronde, Lacoste, and Villere. 28. John Spencer Bassett, (ed.), _Major Howell Tatum’s Journal_ (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1921), 115-16. One other man, presumed dead, was wounded, but arose three times and endeavored to escape under a heavy discharge of musketry. He was finally rescued by Major John W. Simpson, Captain Barbee Collins, and two privates. 29. Eliza Croom Coffee, _op. cit._ 30. _Ibid._ 31. _Ibid._ 32. Nashville Whig, January 25, 1815, p. 2. This information was taken from a letter sent by an officer to a Nashville friend and reprinted in the _Whig_. 33. Rossiter Johnson, _A History of the War of 1812-1815_ (New York, 1882), 344. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPENDIX Jackson Reports On Battle Letter from Major-General Jackson to the Secretary of War. Camp, four miles below Orleans, 9th January, 1815. Sir: