Before he was Old Hickory and the People\'s President, Andrew Jackson came of age in the Waxhaw region of the Carolinas during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War.
Join author Jennifer Hunsicker as she recounts these exciting stories and more, giving Young readers an adventurous tale of a uniquely American childhood..
He carried those scars the rest of his life.
Additionally, when he refused to clean the boots of a British officer, he was slashed with a sword.
Eventually captured, he became a prisoner of war, something that would cost him dearly.
At age thirteen, Jackson served as a messenger, fighting for independence, in his local Scotch-Irish militia and lived through the region\'s toughest Revolutionary battles happening all around him.
He lost his mother and two brothers to the savages of war.
Young Andy Jackson faced uncommon challenges as a child that would shape his historic life.
Before he was Old Hickory and the People\'s President, Andrew Jackson came of age in the Waxhaw region of the Carolinas during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War
