JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed in third person (''The President'') to acting Secretary of War Benjamin Franklin Butler, n.p., n.d. [Washington, D.C., c. 11 February 1837]. 2 pages, 8vo, 198 x 125 mm. (7¾ x 5 in.), integral address leaf in Jackson's hand, marked ''Private,'' in fine condition.

JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed in third person ("The President") to acting Secretary of War Benjamin Franklin Butler, n.p., n.d. [Washington, D.C., c. 11 February 1837]. 2 pages, 8vo, 198 x 125 mm. (7¾ x 5 in.), integral address leaf in Jackson's hand, marked "Private," in fine condition.

"THE P" TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ON A MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY

Jackson summons his Secretary of War to clarify an unsupportable verdict of a military court of inquiry: "The President with his respects to the Secretary of War; and on Monday would be happy to have an interview on the subject of the proceedings of the court of enquiry now before him. The order...requires that they report the facts -- this has not been done...their opinion without the facts upon which it is founded, barely referring to a mass of documents & testimony that would take the President a month to examine to see whether the facts justified their conclusions drawn. The P. has examined much of the testimony...[T]he troops were marched to the frontier...[and] kept...eating up the scanty supplies instead of being marched to...meet the arms. This is a fact that must attach blame, for the delay...and as the court have failed to comply with the order, the question arises ought not the record to be sent back with instruction to report the facts -- & will it not be necessary to commemorate the facts important in the case. This is the question the P. wishes to advise with you..."