Andrew Jackson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26000
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Friends and associates; Depressions; Indians of North America; Government relations; New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815; Nullification (States' rights); Politics and government; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Bank of the United States (1816-1836); Creek War, 1813-1814; History
Description: Correspondence, military papers, and other papers reflecting most phases of Jackson's military and political career.  Subjects include his law practice in Tennessee, his service in the U.S. Congress; Florida and Tennessee state politics; the War of 1812; Creek War, 1813-1814; Battle of New Orleans, 1815; Indian affairs; Eaton Affair (Petticoat Affair) involving John Henry Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton; Nullification Crisis, 1828-1832; national economic policy; Bank of the United States; and the Panic of 1837.  Correspondents include Francis Preston Blair, Willie Blount, John C. Calhoun, R.K. Call, William C.C. Claiborne, John Coffee, Alexander James Dallas, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John Henry Eaton, John Forsyth, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Felix Grundy, Robert Young Hayne, Amos Kendall, Henry Lee, William Berkeley Lewis, James Monroe, James Kirke Paulding, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, John Randolph, John C. Rives, John Sevier, Roger Brooke Taney, and Levi Woodbury.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition available (series 1-9 and 11), no. 13,010.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1964.

Gift, Woodbury Blair, Minna Blair Richey, Gist Blair, and Montgomery Blair, 1903.

Other acquisitions, 1901-1998.

U.S. president, senator, representative, and army officer from Tennessee.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid to additions available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Index published by the Library of Congress in 1967 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.  Cataloged in record 67060014.