Scrapbook, 1814-1827.

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Scrapbook, 1814-1827.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122562433

Scrapbook containing letters, inventories, military orders, accounts, muster lists, and ration lists. This collection provides a military service record during Jackson's campaigns on the Coosa River, and the lower Alabama and Mobile Rivers. Specifically, the collection deals with the activities of the 2nd Regiment of Tennessee at Mobile and Fort Claiborne, Ala. James Craig describes a skirmish against the British and foraging problems near Fort Claiborne, and provides inventories of deceased soldiers' possessions.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6765405

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

United States. Army. Tennessee. Infantry Regiment, 2rd.

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Craig, James, -1795

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James D. Craig was a captain of a Tennessee volunteer company, Jackson's Army, in the War of 1812, and later served at Fort Claiborne, Ala. in the Creek and Seminole Wars. From the description of Scrapbook, 1814-1827. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122562433 ...