Lot 300
  • 300

Jackson, Andrew

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson Major Genl")
  • paper, ink
One page (8 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 205 x 195 mm), “Head Quarters, Ft. Strathan” 21 December 21 1813, to James Mitchell. Matted, framed, and glazed with an engraved portrait of Jackson.

Condition

One page (8 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 205 x 195 mm), "Head Quarters, Ft. Strathan" 21 December 21 1813, to James Mitchell. Matted, framed, and glazed with an engraved portrait of Jackson.
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Catalogue Note

Andrew jackson orders supplies for the Creek War. "You are hereby required to furnish supplies, particularly of breadstuff, with the least possible delay, to the Army under my command in the expedition against the hostile Creeks. You will repair forthwith to Ft Detroit—to Ditto' Landing, & to Huntsville; & if you should find that sufficient supplies have not been procured at those or any of those places, you will without delay, proceed to East Tennessee or wherever they can be procured & purchase such supplies, particularly of breadstuff, as may be sufficient to meet & satisfy my requisition upon the contractors made on the 20th November 1813."