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Jackson-Dickinson Duel. On Bed river in Logan county, Kentucky, on
the 30th day of May, 1806, was fought the famous and fatal duel
between Major General Andrew Jackson, afterwards President of the
United States and Charles Dickinson, attorney- at-law, of
Nashville, Tennessee. The trouble which led up to the fatal meeting
on " the field of honor " has been " variously " stated. Ill
feeling had existed between them for several years. General Jackson
was a very high tempered, over-bearing and determined man who had
incurred the ill-will and hatred of several prominent people. His
friends declared that there was a plot upon the part of his enemies
to get Dickinson to kill him or drive him out of that section of
the country. It was claimed that Dickinson was the best shot in the
United States and the general idea was that a duel between them
necessarily meant the death of General Jackson. It was generally
understood that the duel was to be fought and many bets were made
upon the result, the odds were always against Jackson. Dickinson
himself had a bet of five hundred dollars that he would " get him "
at his first fire. The ill feeling between the two men, which
culminated so fatally, originated from statements made or reported
to have been made by Dickinson in reference to General Jackson's
wife, a subject upon which he was at all times exceedingly
sensitive. About the year 1790 General Jackson was boarding with
the widow of John Donelson; her daughter Rachel had married a man
by the name of Lewis Roberts who was later known as Lewis Robards.
In that year Robards petitioned the Legislature of Virginia to
divorce him from his wife, Rachel, and in his petition he filed an
affidavit setting out the fact that his wife had deserted him and
that she wasliving in adultery with...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The
Jackson-Dickinson Duel. On Bed river in Logan county, Kentucky, on
the 30th day of May, 1806, was fought the famous and fatal duel
between Major General Andrew Jackson, afterwards President of the
United States and Charles Dickinson, attorney- at-law, of
Nashville, Tennessee. The trouble which led up to the fatal meeting
on " the field of honor " has been " variously " stated. Ill
feeling had existed between them for several years. General Jackson
was a very high tempered, over-bearing and determined man who had
incurred the ill-will and hatred of several prominent people. His
friends declared that there was a plot upon the part of his enemies
to get Dickinson to kill him or drive him out of that section of
the country. It was claimed that Dickinson was the best shot in the
United States and the general idea was that a duel between them
necessarily meant the death of General Jackson. It was generally
understood that the duel was to be fought and many bets were made
upon the result, the odds were always against Jackson. Dickinson
himself had a bet of five hundred dollars that he would " get him "
at his first fire. The ill feeling between the two men, which
culminated so fatally, originated from statements made or reported
to have been made by Dickinson in reference to General Jackson's
wife, a subject upon which he was at all times exceedingly
sensitive. About the year 1790 General Jackson was boarding with
the widow of John Donelson; her daughter Rachel had married a man
by the name of Lewis Roberts who was later known as Lewis Robards.
In that year Robards petitioned the Legislature of Virginia to
divorce him from his wife, Rachel, and in his petition he filed an
affidavit setting out the fact that his wife had deserted him and
that she wasliving in adultery with...
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