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Charles Dickinson (
1780-
May 30,
1806), was a 19th century American and nationally famous duelist. An expert marksman, Dickinson's
dueling career included 26 kills before it was ended at the hands of future
President Andrew Jackson.
Life
Born at Wiltshire Manor, Dickinson grew up in the Grove community of
Caroline County, Maryland. He was a successful planter, renowned duelist, and a popular socialite. Dickinson owned a house in Maryland for 13 years.
Death
Jackson's political opponents convinced Dickinson to insult Jackson's wife, assuming Jackson wouldn't survive. At a party near
Hillsboro, Maryland at the Daffin House plantation, he met Andrew Jackson and struck up a conversation about horse racing. Later the two would meet again when Dickinson had relocated to
Nashville, Tennessee. A
duel was set up between the two. Jackson waited, his plan was for Dickinson to shoot first and pray for the best. Dickinson then proceeded to shoot, and Jackson took one ball in the ribs.
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) Without wavering, Jackson then fatally wounded Dickinson with a .70-caliber shot to his middle, severing an artery. This was not, however, a violation of the rules of a duel. Jackson still got his shot as his gun at first didn't fire at all. He died a few hours later, the only man Jackson ever killed in any of his 13 duels.
Debate over gravesite
Dickinson's body is known to have been buried near the mansion of his father-in-law, Captain Joseph Erwin, whose Peach Blossom home and farmlands, as of 1806, occupied a large area west of Nashville. As the area was developed into Nashville's fashionable Whitland neighborhood in the first decades of the 20th century, successive land records cited the location of Dickinson's grave. A stone box marker stood over it until sometime after 1911. As of about 1930, the site, no longer marked, was located in the front yard of a home at 216 Carden Avenue.
In 1965, local historians in
Caroline County, Maryland unearthed a lead coffin on the grounds of land once owned by Dickinson's family. Citing a story passed down in the family of a Dickinson slave, the historians asserted that the body in the coffin was Dickinson's, re-interred on his home grounds some years after his death.
In September 2007, a new owner of the Nashville property at 216 Carden Avenue joined with a Dickinson descendant and local historians to petition a court for the right to conduct a dig intended to determine whether Dickinson was buried there or not. If the court agrees, and if a body is found and identified as Dickinson's, plans call for it to be removed to Nashville's original City Cemetery, which has seen few new burials since the 1880s.
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