Book/Printed Material General Jackson, Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 2 of Copy 1 Class ^tT. Book Gopiglit]^^_ COPYRIGHT DEPOSiT.- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 3 of Copy 1- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 5 of Copy 1 7^ 6rcat Commanbers EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON GENERAL JACKSON- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 6 of Copy 1 Ubc (Bteat (^omman^ers Series* Edited by General James Grant Wilson. Admiral Farragut. By Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N. Zachary Taylor. By General O. O. Howard, U. S. A. General Jackson....- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 9 of Copy 1 GREAT COMMANDERS GENERAL JACKSON BY JAMES PARTON NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1893- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 10 of Copy 1 Copyright, 1892, By D, APPLETON AND COMPANY. Ail rights reserved. Electrotyped and Printed AT THE ApPLETON PrESS, U. S. A.- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 11 of Copy 1 PREFACE. The military life of Andrew Jackson lasted nine years, of which about two years were passed in the field. He was in no proper sense of the word a professional soldier,...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 12 of Copy 1 vi GENERAL JACKSON. there were two survivors of the British army that in- vaded Louisiana in 1814 and took part in the action of January 8, 1815. One of these was the...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 13 of Copy 1 PREFACE. Vii Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and others, but could never convince him that either of them showed miUtary ca- pacity superior to that of the general who had given him and his...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 14 of Copy 1 viii GENERAL JACKSON. also, When you have a thing to do, take all the time for thinking that the circumstances allow, but when the time has come for action, stop thinking. [The...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 15 of Copy 1 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. Parentage and Education i II. During the Revolutionary War 7 III. He studies Law, and becomes a Tennessee Lawyer 17 IV. In Public Life, and as a Man...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 16 of Copy 1- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 17 of Copy 1 GENERAL JACKSON. CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE AND EDUCATION. In 1765, Andrew Jackson, the father of the Andrew Jackson whose career we are about to relate, emigrated, with his wife and two sons, from...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 18 of Copy 1 2 GENERAL JACKSON. afterward went, and established himself in Philadelphia, where he long lived, a respectable citizen. Mrs. Suffren, a daughter of another brother, followed in later years, and settled in the...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 19 of Copy 1 PARENTAGE AND EDUCATION. 3 sending of messengers to the neighbors, and a hurrying across the fields of friendly women and before the sun rose a son was born, the son whose career...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 20 of Copy 1 4 GENERAL JACKSON. their cotton to market in immense wagons of antique pattern, a journey of half a week, and camp out every night. As evening closes in, the passing traveler sees...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 21 of Copy 1 PARENTAGE AND EDUCATION. 5 the Presbyterian Church. It is probable that her con- dition was not one of absolute dependence. The tradi- tion of the neighborhood is, that she was noted the...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 22 of Copy 1 6 GENERAL JACKSON. Andrew Jackson was little more than thirteen. His brother Hugh, a man in stature if not in years, had not waited for the war to come near his home,...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 23 of Copy 1 CHAPTER II. DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. It was on the 29th of May, 1780, that Tarleton, with three hundred horsemen, surprised a detachment of militia in the Waxhaw settlement and killed one...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 24 of Copy 1 8 GENERAL JACKSON. Davie, a most brave, self-sacrificing officer, who, as we have said, commanded the troop of which Hugh Jackson was a member when he died, after the battle of Stono....- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 25 of Copy 1 DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. g Revolutionary history of the Carolinas, I yet desire to show what a war-charged atmosphere it was that young Andrew breathed during this forming period of his life,...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 26 of Copy 1 10 GENERAL JACKSON. The activity and zeal of the Waxhaw Whigs coming to the ears of Lord Rawdon, whom Cornwallis had left in command, he dispatched a small body of dragoons to...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 27 of Copy 1 DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 1 1 could turn to assist him the lieutenant received a severe wound in the head, which compelled him to give up the contest and surrender. The youth...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 28 of Copy 1 12 GENERAL JACKSON. The officer aimed a desperate blow at the boy s head with his sword. Andrew broke the force of the blow with his left hand, and thus received two...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 29 of Copy 1 DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 13 was soon swallowed up in misery. Andrew and Robert Jackson, Lieutenant Thomas Crawford, and twenty other prisoners, all the victims of this raid of the dragoons into...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 30 of Copy 1 14 GENERAL JACKSON. For some time Andrew escaped the contagion. He was reclining one day in the sun, near the entrance of the prison, when the officer of the guard, attracted, as...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 31 of Copy 1 DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 15 ment and horror so worn and wasted were they with hunger, wounds, and disease. Robert could not stand, or even sit on horseback, without support. The mother,...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 32 of Copy 1 1 5 GENERAL JACKSON. one hundred and sixty miles) and do what she could for the comfort of the prisoners there. The tradition of the neighborhood now is that she performed the...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 33 of Copy 1 CHAPTER III. HE STUDIES LAW, AND BECOMES A TENNESSEE LAWYER. CoRNWALLis surrendered at Yorktown on the 19th of October, 1781. Savannah remained in the enemy s hands nine months, and Charleston fourteen...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 34 of Copy 1 1 8 GENERAL JACKSON. homes. Andrew, finding the country dull after the de- parture of his gay companions, suddenly resolved to follow them to the city. He mounted his horse, a-fine and...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 35 of Copy 1 HE STUDIES LAW. ig and bustle of an old-field school. It is the more certain, as the uniform tradition of the Waxhaw country is that he was a very poor young man,...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 36 of Copy 1 20 GENERAL JACKSON. lived at the time, and the property is still owned and occupied by a near connection of his, who has preserved the old office from regard to his memory....- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 37 of Copy 1 HE STUDIES LAW. 21 life. There was but one feature of his face that was not commonplace his eyes, which were of a deep blue, and capable of blazing with great expression...- Contributor: Parton, James
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Image 38 of Copy 1 22 GENERAL JACKSON. Jonesboro, waiting for the assembling of a sufficient number of emigrants, and for the arrival of a guard from Nashville to escort them. Nashville is one hundred and eighty-three...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 39 of Copy 1 HE STUDIES LAW. 23 lawyer merely, but as the public prosecutor, and there was that in his bearing which gave assurance that he was the man to issue unpopular writs and give...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893
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Image 40 of Copy 1 24 GENERAL JACKSON. were the times when a notorious criminal would defy the officers of justice, and keep them at bay for years at a time when a district attorney who made...- Contributor: Parton, James
- Date: 1893