Recollections of the Hermitage in 1828 [manuscript].

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Recollections of the Hermitage in 1828 [manuscript].

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Galt accompanied his father Alexander on a trip West that included a stay at the Hermitage. He records his impressions of the General, his wife, and friends John Coffee, Edmund Pendleton Gaines and John Henry Eaton. He mentions a celebration that occurred after the news that another state had gone for Jackson, and the slander campaign against Mrs. Jackson.

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