>From the book, "On This Day", by James A. Crutchfield SEPTEMBER 4, 1813 Andrew Jackson and Thomas Hart Benton shoot it out in a gunfight on Nashville's Public Square. The squabble sends Benton packing to Missouri where he eventually indelibly links his name with America's westward expansion. Jackson, gravely wounded by one of the gunshots, stays in Nashville and becomes the town's leading citizen.