JACKSON ANDREW Document Signed as Major General of Tennessee

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THE ORIGIN OF "OLD HICKORY" JACKSON, ANDREW. Document Signed, as Major General of Tennessee Volunteers, provision return for Captain Kavanaugh for the period between and including 1 and 12 March, showing his use of 3 rations each day totaling 36 rations. Additionally signed by Kavanaugh. 1 page, 6 1/4x7 3/4 inches; folds, docketing verso, moderate even toning. [Near Natchez, March 1813]

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In March of 1813, Jackson was ordered to disband his volunteers, but no provision was made for their return to Tennessee. Jackson, in order to ensure his men's safety, defied the order and marched his troops home again with modest rations and through hostile territory. To his men, Jackson was as strong and unyielding as a hickory tree, thus earning him the name, "Old Hickory."