Front matter
Reading edition
The Story of a Home in the Tennessee Blue-Grass Region, Which, from Pioneer Log Cabin to Ante-bellum Mansion, Furnished the Background of “Old Hickory’s” Dramatic and Colorful Career
By MARY FRENCH CALDWELL
Published by The Ladies’ Hermitage Association, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE (First edition, 1933) 1949
Copyright, 1949 MARY FRENCH CALDWELL
Author: General Jackson’s Lady—A Story of the Life and Times of Rachel Donelson Jackson, Beloved Wife of General Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States. 1936. (Illustrated 555 pp.)
PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE U. S. A. BY KINGSPORT PRESS, INC., KINGSPORT, TENN.
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This Small Volume Is Dedicated to the Patriotic Women Whose Untiring Labors Made Possible the Preservation, in Its Entirety, of ANDREW JACKSON’S HERMITAGE and to Those, Who Down through the Years, Continue to Guard It as One of the Most Priceless Treasures of Tennessee and the Nation
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