followed by a discussion of two defectors from the group, and conclude with the younger generation of allies and admirers.
NOTES
1.
For a general view of the role of honor in Southern life see especially Bertram Wyatt Brown, Southern Honor ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1982); David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1989); James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication ( Boston: Little Brown, 1976); and, less directly but still relevant to the point, Richard Slotkin
, Regeneration Through Violence ( Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University
Press, 1973).
2.
Details of the Jackson's emigration to and early years in the Carolinas
are drawn primarily from Marquis James, Andrew Jackson the Border Captain
( Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1933), and Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson
and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 ( New York: Harper and Row, 1977).
3.
I discovered the intensity of such conflicts in doing research for my
biography of James K. Paulding. Many good studies of the internal clashes in
each of the states have been written.
4.
I have read the John Spencer Bassett, Correspondence of Andrew
Jackson, 6 vols. ( Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1926).
Although that collection is being superseded by Harold Moser, et al., The Papers
of Andrew Jackson, 4 vols. to date ( Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980-), the Bassett collection provides valuable source materials and commentary
for the period not yet covered in the new Jackson project. The Jackson papers are
critical for writing both about Jackson and the other lieutenants with whom he
corresponded. For reference to the militia problem see Moser et al., Papers, vol 2, 476-78.
5.
Moser et al., Papers, Jackson to Rachel Jackson, vol. 2, 515.
6.
Moser et al., Papers, Jackson to Rachel Jackson, vol. 2, 515.
7.
Moser et al., Papers, Jackson to Felix Grundy in 1813, vol. 2, 385-87.
8.
Among the incidents that led to the collapse of a Clay-Jackson political
alliance and friendship was Clay's letter to Secretary of War Crawford criticizing Jackson's 1818 activities in Florida. See Moser et al., Papers, vol. 4, 279.
9.
In 1804 Jackson wrote to Nathan Davidson with whom he was having
a business dispute about Davidson's placing money above his honor and by so
doing staining his character. Jackson concluded "what confidence can or will be
reposed in a man who boasts of fortune and thus violates his word?" Moser et al., Papers, vol. 2, 39.
10.
For many years the Jacksons corresponded with one another and used
that salutation. Moser et al., Papers.
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Publication information:
Book title: Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants:A Study in Political Culture.
Contributors: Lorman A. Ratner - Author.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 1997.
Page number: 33.
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