Category: History - American
Most English-reading people, as well as many of those who read history written in other languages, are familiar with the life and deeds of _General_ and _President_ Andrew Jackson; and very many people in the United States know of _Senator_ and _Judge_ Andrew Jackson. Few, how...
Most English-reading people, as well as many of those who read history written in other languages, are familiar with the life and deeds of _General_ and _President_ Andrew Jacks...
2. CHAPTER II.They founded and administered the first free and independent government in America. They established the first church, the first institution of learning, and the second newspape...
3. CHAPTER III.There may be mistake, error, fraud and injustice in court proceedings and judicial records; but when such records were made more than a century ago, and contain some part of the...
4. CHAPTER IV.Tennessee does not need the prolific genius of the romanticist to embellish and invest with thrilling interest the narrative of her origin and development, of the hardships and...
5. CHAPTER V.The first legislative act passed in what is now the state of Tennessee was an “Ordinance of the Governor and Judges of the Territory of the United States of America South of the...
6. CHAPTER VI.In November, 1784, the general assembly of North Carolina, at Newbern, divided the district of Morgan, which had theretofore included all of the state “west of the mountains,” a...
7. CHAPTER VII.In many respects Andrew Jackson was the most interesting, picturesque and unique character America has produced. Scotch and Irish blood commingling in his veins, there was a per...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Waightstill Avery was the most prominent man and the leading lawyer in Western North Carolina when Andrew Jackson came to the bar. At that time, and indeed from the time of the...
9. CHAPTER IX.Russell Bean was not distinguished alone because he was the first white child born within the limits of what is today the state of Tennessee: he was said to have been the most p...
10. CHAPTER X.Andrew Jackson was a more courageous man, as well as a much greater man, than many of his most ardent admirers knew of. At the time of his duel with Avery, if the version which...