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Andrew Jackson, headquarters Camp Pleasant, Mississippi Territory, order to John Coffee :
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Andrew Jackson, Fort Strother, Mississippi Territory, letter to Rachel Jackson, Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee :
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Jackson reports on the current state of military affairs including conduct, desertion and apathy of the volunteer infantry and of contractors; the state of supplies, particularly beef and pork; his inability to advance. He also sends instructions regarding Lyncoya, a Creek Indian infant orphaned during the Creek War and adopted by Jackson in November 1813.
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Andrew Jackson, camp on Thompson's Creek, letter to Pathkiller :
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Jackson is responding to Pathkiller's letter of October 22; approves of his sending spies to investigate fires. Jackson is leaving his encampment the following day and hopes to encounter hostile Creek Indians. Pathkiller (d. 1827) was the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and served as a colonel under Jackson during the Creek War. This item appears to be a letter written and signed for Jackson by an amanuensis, or it may possibly be his own autograph altered as a result of gunshot wounds received in a recent fight with Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart Benton. The Papers of Andrew Jackson list this item as a copy.
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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. To John Coffee, 1772-1833: order [to destroy Tallushatchee]. Camp Pleasant, Mississippi Territory
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The American Indian File is an artificially assembled collection which includes miscellaneous pieces and five smaller groups of papers concerning Indians in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The documents are primarily concerned with the transfer of land from Indians to whites and include deeds, indentures, treaties, proclamations and mortgages. Nearly all the papers are dated from 1634 to 1815, with a very few pieces from the late 19th and the 20th centuries. Also included is information on military and political affairs, negotiations and Indian ethnology, primarily between 1780 to 1850. Tribes belonging to the Iroquoian language family, including the Cherokees and Senecas, are most fully represented, but tribes in the Algonquian family, especially in the Great Lakes region are also represented (Ottawa and Saginaw Chippewa).
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Andrew Jackson, Fort Jackson, Mississippi Territory, letter to Rachel Jackson, Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee :
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Jackson mentions he will be going to Mobile soon and that he has submitted terms of peace to the Creek Indians and is waiting for response. He hopes to return to Tennessee soon or will have Rachel brought to Natchez or New Orleans; regrets their separation.
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Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., letter to Andrew Jackson, Jr. :
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Sending updates on Sarah Jackson and family; the bulk of the letter discusses possible renovations to the Hermitage.
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Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., letter to Andrew Jackson, Jr., Hermitage :
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Sending updates on Sarah Jackson and the children and mentions that he has triumphed over his political enemies.
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