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Andrew Jackson ALS 1842

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Andrew Jackson ALS 1842
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Very scarce and desirable autograph letter signed “Andrew Jackson” with patriotic content. Datelined Hermitage, 21 June 1842, Jackson writes to “Committee / Messrs B. Schott, Anthony Germann, John Hauck,” also with integral leaf in his hand to the same men in Cincinnati, Ohio. Letter reads in full, “Under cover from my friend Moses Dawson Esqr I have received your letter of the 8th instant informing me, that those you represent as a committee, have formed themselves into a military company and have resolved, with my permission, to call it the Jackson Guards. I with pleasure yield my approbation to your request, being fully pursuaded [sic], from your true democratic principles, you will allways [sic] be found in the front rank, repelling forever invaders, or intestine traitors, who may attempt to destroy our republican system, by disolving [sic] our glorious nation. I am, gentlemen respectfully yr mo obdt servt.” As Andrew Jackson had hoped in this letter, the Jackson Guards were “in the front rank'' 19 years later at the start of the Civil War. Within three days of President Lincoln calling for 75,000 volunteers, the Jackson Guards traveled quickly from Cincinnati and other towns in Hamilton and Butler Counties to the state capitol in Columbus and became Company K of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, one of the first two Ohio infantry regiments organized for the war. Single-page measures 7.75” x 9.75”. Light, barely perceptible, restoration. On brown paper darkly penned by the former President. Very good condition.
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