AJ was a great harbinger of the current democratic party, still from the little guy and give it to your cronies.
Well of course it's been forgotten. It commemorates war, and war is icky. Ask the nearest public school teacher, he or she will tell you the same thing.
well I do remember the song In 1814 we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson on the Mighty Mississipp etc etc
He was born in the Carolinas. No one knows which one for sure.
Wow. Thanks for posting this.
January 8th ought to be resurrected as a day of celebration, along with days of other great victories.
I am supposed to be a direct descendant of one of Jackson's siblings, or some other relative although I have never tried to document it.
The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Andrew Jackson - Oct 18th, 2003 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1003416/posts
Naval battle of Lake Champlain was a more important victory for the US in the War of 1812 than New Orleans, and gets basically no pub at all.
FWIW, I was recently reading about the history of some place names in New York State and found that, IIRC, one town was named after a guy who gave some land for a school and cemetery...but the very next year, after the Battle of New Orleans, it was changed to Jacksonville. Seems that there really was quite a bit of excitement for Old Hickory.
When I was at his house (The Hermitage) outside Nashville a few years ago, they were trying to make it more "PC" by featuring the slaves more. One thing they did was put up some poorly written paper signs over the old metal ones. One thing they should have done was cover the old signs, so people couldn't see that the info on the PC sheets was just plain wrong. Even after his slaves were freed, many stayed there, and one of them asked to be buried as close to Pres. and Mrs. Jackson as possible.