This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The Soldier's Body Recovered in Yard is believed to be the last confederate ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple ... his victory against the British at New Orleans catapulted him to war hero status. Presidential Places is a weekly series on past ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has ... a brotherly relationship with Jackson. Jackson felt indebted to him because Eaton had run his presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Eaton would ...

For much of the American public however, Jackson's reputation was built not on money matters but on a lady's honor. When Peggy Eaton, the wife of the secretary of war, was snubbed by other wives ...