Letter from Andrew Jackson to John Sevier
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- 1803 October 3rd
- Description
This letter is a response from Andrew Jackson to Governor John Sevier challenging him to a duel. According to the letter, Sevier spoke poorly of Jackson's wife Rachel, who had accidentally married Jackson before she was legally divorced from her first husband. Jackson wrote, "... In the town of Knoxville did you take the name of a lady into your polluted lips... and how sir in the Neighborhood of Knoxville you shall atone for it or I will publish you as a coward and a poltroon." This letter is part of a larger exchange between Jackson and Sevier, who wrote his own duel challenge to Jackson and accused him of trying to run away.
- Creator
Jackson, Andrew
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- Digital Library of Tennessee
- Contributing Institution
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Location
- Knoxville (Tenn.)
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- text
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- Chicago citation style
- Jackson, Andrew. Letter from Andrew Jackson to John Sevier. 1803 October 3rd. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll18/id/1095. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Jackson, Andrew, (1803 October 3rd) Letter from Andrew Jackson to John Sevier. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll18/id/1095
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- Jackson, Andrew. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll18/id/1095>.