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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 ... The brothers were taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Camden, South Carolina, where they became malnourished and contracted smallpox
Muscogee, taken prisoner at Littafuchee, sent to live at the Hermitage as a companion for Andrew Jackson Jr.; Theodore died Charley: fl. February–April 1814: Indigenous orphan, tribal affiliation unknown; he was given to Jackson and sent to live at the Hermitage as a companion to Andrew Jackson Donelson: Lyncoya Jackson: c. 1811 – July 1, 1828
Andrew Jackson – seventh President of the United States, captured in the American Revolutionary War as a thirteen-year-old courier; Charles R. Jackson – captured in Battle of Corregidor, as described in memoir I Am Alive: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a WWII Japanese POW Camp
This is a list of people for whom Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, acted as pater familias or served as a guardian, legal or otherwise. As Tennessee history writer Stanley Horn put it in 1938, "Jackson's friends had a habit of dying, and leaving their orphans to his care."
John R. Coffee (June 2, 1772 – July 7, 1833) was an American planter of English descent, and a state militia brigadier general in Tennessee.He commanded troops under General Andrew Jackson during the Creek Wars (1813–14) and the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
According to one historian, Jackson Jr. "threw a fit when his own playmate died and coveted Charley," who was another Indigenous captive and the assigned playmate of Andrew Jackson Donelson. [8]: 91 Lyncoya Jackson, who was captured at the Battle of Tallushatchee ("all his family is destroyed") arrived at the Hermitage in May 1814. [9]: 444
Andrew Jackson, 1819 portrait in oil paint by Samuel Lovett Waldo (Metropolitan Museum of Art object 06.197) Andrew Jackson, later seventh president of the United States, was involved in a series of altercations in his personal and professional life. According to historian J. M. Opal, "[Jackson's] willingness to kill, assault, or threaten ...
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-400-06325-3. Parton, James (1860). Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3. New York, NY: Mason Brothers. OCLC 3897681. Remini, Robert V. (1984). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy. New York, NY: Harper and Row. ISBN 9781421413303.