The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
Shelf No. 4:
30. Shakespeare volume given and inscribed by Jackson to Henry L.
Rucker of Cincinnati, 1837. Presented by Mrs. C. P. J. Mooney,
1950.
31. A British Dragoon flintlock holster pistol found on Jackson’s
battlefield at New Orleans in 1850. Presented by W. E.
Metzger.
32. A stone from the grave of Andrew Jackson, father of General
Jackson, who died in 1767. The grave is at Waxhaws Churchyard,
S. C., and the stone was procured by Mr. Walter Lacoste Wilson
and sent to Mrs. Rachel Jackson Lawrence, who presented it to
the Hermitage Association.
33. Dueling pistol (one of a pair) owned by General Jackson.
Presented by Miss Spon. The whereabouts of the other is not
known.
34. Pistol used at New Orleans. Presented by Bettie Hoffstetter
Reise.
35. English bayonet embedded in cypress root, found on the
battlefield at New Orleans and presented to General Jackson in
1844.
36. The sword and belt of Capt. Samuel Jackson, C. S. A., grandson
of General Jackson.
37. Powder flask used by General Jackson at the Battle of New
Orleans.
38. Old pair of shears.
39. Rifle ornamented with plates of German silver, was given by
General Jackson to Andrew Jackson, Jr. It was given by the
Jacksons at the Hermitage in 1861 when a call was made for
guns by the Southern Confederacy. Purchased at Clarksville,
Tennessee, by a Federal officer whose son sold it to Mrs. B.
F. Wilson, who presented it to the Ladies’ Hermitage
Association.
Shelf No. 5:
40. Picture of Judge Spruce Macay, Justice of the North Carolina
Supreme Court, law preceptor of Andrew Jackson. Gift of
Archibald Henderson of North Carolina.
41. Jackson’s license to practice law, 1787, North Carolina.
42. Commission of Major-General, issued to Andrew Jackson, 1801, by
Archibald Roane, Governor of Tennessee. Given by J. McGavock
Dickinson.
43. Healy’s account of his visit to the Hermitage to paint Jackson’s
portrait as commissioned by Louis Philippe.
44. Framed Declaration of Independence.
45. Letter to General Jackson from Bishop Henry Conwell, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia, written when he was in Rome,
containing a picture to Pope Leo XII. Presented by Mrs. Bettie
M. Donelson.
Case No. 2
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