Official record from the War Department of the proceedings of the court martial which tried, and the orders of General Jackson for shooting, the six militia men : together with official letters from the War Department (ordered to be printed by Congress) showing that these American citizens were inhumanly & illegally massacred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States. War Department

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States.

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.

Command of troops.

United States.

Tennessee militiamen, Execution of, 1815.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845--Military leadership.

Jackson, Andrew.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

32 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Printed at the Office of Jonathan Elliot, 1828.

Notes:

An anti-Jackson campaign document, comprising a reprint, with commentary, of the documents published in the same year as House Report no. 140, 20th Congress, 1st session under title: Tennessee militiamen.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bottom edge cut very closely to the last line with some loss of text.

Culture Class Collection has marginal marks and brackets within the text.

Cited in:

Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law, 13619

Shoemaker 36681

OCLC:

1635105