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STORY OF "OLD HIDKORY"
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reached Waxhaw. The schools were
closed and Andrew and his brother
Robert were at home when Tarleton
and his dragoons thundered along the
red roads of Waxhaw and d^ed them
a deeper red with the "blood of the
surprised militia." Their oldest brother.
Hugh, had already given bis life
in bohalf of the colonial cause. The
old meeting house at Waxhaw was
speedily converted into n hospital, and
here the worst cases of the 160 wound
ed men, victims of Tarleton's dragoons,
were carried. Mrs. Jackson was one
of the first women of the settlement
to turn in and help alleviate the distress
of her wounded countrymen.
Robert and Andrew were among the
young patriots who volunteered to
ward off the Tories at Waxhaw. Both
were taken prisoners. A Tory officer
commanded Andrew to blacken his
boots, Andrew replied, "Sir, I am a
prisoner of war, and claim to be treated
as such." The officer glanced at
him like a wild beast, and aimed a desperate
blow at his head. Andrew
broke the force of the blow with hiB
hand, and received two wounds, a
deep gash on the head and another on
fh? hand Thu QPuru frani ho I
. carried to his dying day. The officer
turned next to Robert and ordered
him to blacken his boots. Robert saw
the wounds of his brother and the
fresh blood pouring from them, and
had every reason to fear a like assault
in case he should refuse. But he did
refuse, and the officer dealt him a
terrific blow on the head, which
leveled him to the floor and disabled
him. An aged relation, commenting
on the scene, said, "I reckon Andy
thought of it at New Orleans." The
two wounded Jackson boys suffered
intensely as a consequence of the inhuman
treatment of the Tories. Both
boys, soon after, were stricken with
smallpox. The devoted mother heard
of their pitiable plight. Prisoners?
wounded?smallpox. She strove with
ail the might of mother-love for their
< deliverance, and finally succeeded in
effecting an exchange of prisoners.
When the mother first saw her two
boys in their pitiable condition ?the
severe gash on Robert's head had not
even been dressed?she was filled with
astonishment and overcome with horror.
In two days after they reached
home Robert was a corpse and Andrew
a raving maniac. But a mother's
nursing and strong constitution pulled
Andrew through. After he was well
on the way to recovery this patriotic
and heroic mother heard cf the sufferings
of the prisoners of war at Char
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leston, and volunteered her services.
There were no Red Cross nurses in
those days, but there were devoted
women who were pioneers of Red
Cross work. Tradition says that Mrs.
Jaokson made the long journey of a
hundred and sixty miles on foot. Andrew
Jackson, howevfer, always doubted
that. He thought some way was surely
provided to get ' his mother to her
destination. But her rough journey
through life was nearly over. The
widowed mother had given two sons,
both under age, to the cause of liberty;
one more sacrifice was to be
exacted of her. She was seized with
ship fever, and soon after died, a
martyr to her country's welfare. She
died in the service of her country as
truly as the colonists who shed their
blood at Bunker Hill or Lexington.
Andrew never saw his mother again.
The only legacy this poor mother had
to leave her orphan eon wan a pathetic
little bundle of clothes which
was sent to him at Waxhaw?a stainless
character, and tne memory of a
good mother and faithful Christian.
Andrew mourned deeply over hiB great
losa.
Jackson was now an orphan and
penniless. But two years later, when
only twenty, he was admitted to the bar.
Andrew Jackson's military career
began when a lad of 14. He was
captured by the British in 1871; maltreated
and left to die of smallpox,
his release from prison secured by his
mother, and his life spared largely
through her efforts. In the War of
1812 he organized 2,600 militia and was
commissioned major general of the
militia. In 1814 he became a major
general in the regular army. He
struck the decisive blows in the South
which b: ought the War of 1812-14 to a
close. He won the battle of New
Orleans on January 8, 1815, and the
war was at an end. Jackson came to
the presidential chair as a military
hero. But he was much more than
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and inflexible honesty and an integrity
unassailable.
Andrew Jackson, to the end of his
days, cherished with deepest veneration
the memory of his rriother. He was
little given to shedding tears, but he
did shed them once on a memorable
occasion on account of his mother. It
was during his candidacy for the presidency
in 1828. The floodgates of
vituperation and slander opened upon
him. So malignant was party animosity
that not only was he assailed
with vindictive falsehood, but also his
wifo and his mother. Passing strange
that party politics would stoop so low
as to assail the character of a mother
who had given two sons and her own
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found him in tears. In response to
her look of surprise and sympathy, he
pointed to a paragraph reflecting on
his mother, and said, "Myself I can
defend; you I can defend; but now
they have assailed the memory of my
motherf"
Andrew Jackson had married a
woman who was a devoted Christian.
He cherished the memory of her religious
life as he did that of his mother.
He built a small hrl??lr
on the grounds of "The Hermitage/'
where he resided. Her* the members
of his family gathered for worship.
When the eight years of his tertn
of office were over, he retired to "The
Hermitage," near Nashville, Tenn. The
people of Nashville met him with outI
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stretched at ma and tearfrri faces. He
was well along in years, 70 year* of age.
He was their president. He had come
home to spend the balance of his life
and to die with them. He was through
with politics.' He was going to carry
out his promise made to his wife, and
a mother's prayers were to be answered
and a new glory added to a vanished
mother's influence. Andrew Jackson
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church. The night of decision was full
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public confession of the Ohristian religion.
He went home to read hie Bible
more carefally than ever, and for 45
yeart he had never read leu fhan three
chapters a day. He died on Sunday,
June 8, 1846, aged 78.
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