Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Hermitage


The house of General Andrew Jackson is situated about twelve miles east of Nashville.  The national ensign will ere long float over the scenes familiar to the patriotic hero, whose insight into the unholy designs of the Calhoun school of politicians was deeper than that of most of his contemporaries.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2

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