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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00005
Item: 00015
Title: Copy of Letter, November 9, 1857, Richard K. Call, Lake Jackson, to C.J. Hedenberg, 4 pp., responding to questions about uniforms of army officers and correcting him on his proposed historical account of "one of the most interesting and sublime scenes in our national history" involving General Andrew Jackson and Judge Hall: "I. . . became the Aid-de-Camp of Genl Jackson, and for near three years, was not only a member of his staff, but a member of his domestic family at the Hermitage, where the relation between us was more like that of Father and Son, than that of Chieftain and his subordinate. I had joined him in his first campaign as a private soldier. I had served in nearly every battle he fought. I had won his confidence, and his affection. . . he wrote me requesting that I would give him a narrative of all the prominent incidents of the siege of New Orleans, and particularly those which transpired in his appearance before Judge Hall. He stated that he wanted that for the historians . . . I complied with his request. . . In statements to Genl Jackson above mentioned, describing the scene before Judge Hall, I quoted his language, and described his manner, in the same language as in my letter to you ofJuly last. This narrative endorsed by Genl Jackson will some day probably appear in history, and may contradict the past which you propose to represent. . ."
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