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"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." Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the Office of Jonathan Elliot, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1828. 32pp, 6 x 9 1/2 in. (heavily toned, chipping along edges, some soil and dampstaining). No covers, stitch binding intact.

Howes J11. Cohen 13619 - "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." The report of the House Committee on Military Affairs, accompanying the documents, is omitted from this reprint. The six militiamen were executed for mutiny at the close of the Creek War in 1814.

The 1828 US Presidential Election featured an extensive amount of "mudslinging" between incumbent candidate John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Besides Jackson's controversial court martial and execution of militiamen, he also faced fierce personal attacks related to his marriage to Rachel Donelson Jackson.