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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as Major General, to Richard Button, n.p. [Louisiana ?], 22 April 1816. 1 page, 4to, 245 x 198 mm. (9½ x 7¾ in.), very minor spotting, matted with an 1823 engraved portrait and in an attractive giltwood frame.
JACKSON IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: IF AN INDIAN WAR SHOULD RAGE..."
Little more than a year after his remarkable triumph over the British in the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson (in command of the U.S. armies in the South), has been occupied with problems with the unpacified Indians of the Creek and Cherokee tribes, who continued to press claims to ancestral lands in spite of the recent Treaty of Fort Jackson (March 22, 1816). Jackson, who had returned to New Orleans, where he reviewed the militia and visited friends, prepares to return to the Hermitage, but alludes to the possibility of a new war with the Indians: "I reached here last evening and...tomorrow proceed to Natchez...then Nashville, accident or sickness excepted, and where it will give me much pleasure to see my better self [his wife, Rebecca] and little son. " Jackson gives instructions for delivering a letter to a neighbor, Mr. Hutchings, as "it is important that I should meet him as after my arrival as possible. If an Indian war should rage in the Northwest, my stay in Tennessee will not be long, and you must be in readiness to accompany me..." Predictably, Indian troubles erupted 18 months later, with the start of the First Seminole War, in which Jackson again rode to war.
JACKSON IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: IF AN INDIAN WAR SHOULD RAGE..."
Little more than a year after his remarkable triumph over the British in the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson (in command of the U.S. armies in the South), has been occupied with problems with the unpacified Indians of the Creek and Cherokee tribes, who continued to press claims to ancestral lands in spite of the recent Treaty of Fort Jackson (March 22, 1816). Jackson, who had returned to New Orleans, where he reviewed the militia and visited friends, prepares to return to the Hermitage, but alludes to the possibility of a new war with the Indians: "I reached here last evening and...tomorrow proceed to Natchez...then Nashville, accident or sickness excepted, and where it will give me much pleasure to see my better self [his wife, Rebecca] and little son. " Jackson gives instructions for delivering a letter to a neighbor, Mr. Hutchings, as "it is important that I should meet him as after my arrival as possible. If an Indian war should rage in the Northwest, my stay in Tennessee will not be long, and you must be in readiness to accompany me..." Predictably, Indian troubles erupted 18 months later, with the start of the First Seminole War, in which Jackson again rode to war.