The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson was originally compiled by Mrs. Mary C. Dorris and revised June, 1963. The contents name Original Log Hermitage, Museum, Mansion and Grounds and Tomb, among others. The opening text says that in 1781 Andrew Jackson, then fourteen years of age, enlisted in the American Army, was captured and thrown into prison, where he had smallpox. Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, his mother, arranged his release through exchange and nursed him back to health.
The text says Jackson was Major-General of Tennessee Militia from 1802 to 1814 and became a national figure in the War of 1812. The text says no sketch of Andrew Jackson, however brief, can fail of emphasis on the Battle of New Orleans, for it was his marvelous victory over the greatly outnumbering, confident, invading British Army on January 8, 1815, that first gave him national renown.
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- Mary C. Dorris
- Pages
- 88
- Language
- English
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- American History
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