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Show viii PREFACE. It was desirable to avoid in the narrative, all those circumstances in which general Jackson was not directly concerned; but as the design of the original author was to give a complete history of the southern war, that plan has been pursued, and some events adverted to, in which the general had no immediate agency. JOHN H. EATON. Nash'Ville, Janullry, 1817. NoTE.-Page 336, line 3, from the bottom, for "more than eight," read "fifteen." THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON. CHAPTER I. Hio birth, parentage, family, and education.--Engages in the American revolution, and is shortly after, witn his brother, made a prisoner.-Their treatment and sufferings.-Commences the study of law.-His removal to the western country.-Becomes a member of the Tennessee convention, and afterwards a senator in the United States' congress.Retires, and is appointed a judge of the state courts.-Declaration of war.-Tenders the services of 2500 volunteers to the president.-Ordcred to the lower country.-His descent and return. TH~ parents of Andrew Jackson were Irish. CHAP. His father, (Andrew) the youngest son of his family, T. emigrated to America about the year 1765, bringing~ with him two sons, Hugh and Robert, both very young. Landing at Charleston, in South Carolina, he shortly afterwards purchased a tract of land, in what was then called the Waxsaw settlement, about forty-five miles above Camden; at which place the subject of this his-tory was born, on the 15th of March, 1767. Shortly after his birth, his father died, leaving three sons to be .B |