Behan, a member of the Louisiana Historical Society, and several others, including four veterans of the battle of New Orleans. This was the last public address of Mr. Mills and here is what he said:

"Ladies and Gentlemen: Having been requested to make some remarks on this occasion before the distinguished people of Nashville, I will state that the statue before you is a triplicate of the one now standing in front of the President's House in Washington, which was not only the first equestrian statue ever self-poised on the hind feet in the world, but was also the first ever molded and cast in the United States.

"The incident selected for representation in this statue occurred at the battle of New Orleans, on the 8th day of January, 1815. The commander-in-chief has advanced to the center of the lines in the act of review. The lines have come to present arms as a salute to their commander, who acknowledges it by raising his chapeau four inches from his head, according to the military etiquette of that period. But his restive horse, anticipating the next evolution, rears and attempts to dash down the line, while his open mouth and curved neck show that he is being controlled by the hand of his noble rider.

"I have deemed this explanation important to answer a criticism upon the fact that the horse is rearing and Jackson has his hat off. Critics should reflect that a spirited warhorse, although brought to a halt, will not long remain so.

"The city of Nashville has just cause for pride from the fact that of the three statues cast from the same model that the one before you is the most perfect of them all."

SKETCH OF ELIAS BOUDINOT CALDWELL

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Reprint from American Monthly Magazine

By HIS GRANDDAUGHTER

OHN CALDWELL, of Scotch ancestry, came to America and settled in the southern part of Virginia, in what is now Charlotte County, where James, the youngest of his seven children was born, April, 1734. The place was called "Caldwell Settlement." A daughter of one of his brothers, also born here, was mother of the Hon. John Caldwell Calhoun, of South Carolina, the noted Senator and leading statesman of the South.

James prepared for collage under the instruction of Rev. Mr. Todd. After hearing the Rev. Mr. Whitfield preach several times, he received a life-long impulse for good. James graduated in 1759 from college, and received a call from the Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 1761. In 1763 he married Hannah, daughter of John Ogden, of Newark, New Jersey.

The exciting causes of the Revolution now aroused the people of New Jersey. No other religious society in the land took a bolder, nobler stand, and few were more efficient in their country's cause than Mr. Caldwell. Among his congregation were Governor Livingston, Elias Boudinot, afterwards president of the Continental Congress; Abram Clark, one of signers of the Declaration of Independence; Hon. Robert Ogden, Speaker of the Assembly, and from this congregation went forth about forty commissioned officers to fight the battles of independence.

The journals of Congress show that March, 1777, “$200

were ordered to be paid to the Rev. James Caldwell, of Elizabethtown, for extraordinary services."

Mr. Caldwell was Chaplain to the Jersery Brigade and Assistant Commissary-General from 1777 to 1779.

The old parsonage was destroyed by the torch of the enemy that year. The campaign of 1780 opened late after the severe winter. Confident of success, General Knyphausen, with his Hessian troops, now in command of a part of the British army, began an invasion of East Jersey. An eyewitness of the passage of the troops says: "The Queen's Rangers, with drawn swords and glittering helmets, mounted on fine horses and followed by infantry, composed of Hessian and English troops, about 6,000, all clad in new uniforms, gorgeous with burnished brass and polished steel, entered Elizabethtown." Instantly drums beat to arms at Morristown, and Washington and his troops marched with all speed to the post of danger.

The Rev. Mr. Caldwell had, a few weeks before this, removed his family from Elizabethtown to Connecticut Farms for safety and had returned to the vacant parsonage. When the British troops passed through the Farms, Mrs. Caldwell, with her maid, retired to a secluded apartment with the children. The girl looked out of the window and said: “A red-coat soldier has jumped over the fence and is coming towards the house with a gun."

The youngest child but one, Elias Boudinot, two years old, playing on the floor, called out: "Let me see!" and ran to the window. Mrs. Caldwell arose from her chair, and at this moment the soldier fired his musket through the window at her. It was loaded with two balls, which passed through her body, and she instantly expired. It was an act of fiendish barbarity that made the British name more execrable than ever. A correspondent of the New York Gazette says: "I saw her corpse, and was informed by the neighbors it