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THE ORIGIN OF “OLD HICKORY”
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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
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[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.”
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JACKSON, ANDREW. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
land deed granting 160 acres in Arkansas to John R. Wayne. Countersigned by
Commissioner of the General Land Office Elijah Hayward. 9
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to text (but legible; signature bold), moderate cockling and folds, moderate scattered stain-
ing, some loss to paper seal.
Washington, 28 March 1831
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