by.
now) went back home to the Crawfords. Even though official battles had been.
temporarily stopped, the "civil war" raged on as Patriots fought Tories in the.
towns of South Carolina, catching young Andrew Jackson in the midst of the.
fight.
In one bloody encounter, Jackson and his brother were taken prisoner by.
British.
dragoons. A British officer ordered Andrew to clean his boots. The boy.
refused,.
claiming his right as a prisoner of war not to be treated like a servant. The.
furious officer whipped out his sword and slashed at the boy's head. Luckily.
for Jackson, his stealth saved him from certain death, but leaving him with.
scars on his left hand and head which he carried with him his whole life,.
along.
with a hatred for the British. Thrown into prison camp, Elizabeth Jackson.
would.
not let her sons rot in British cells, and making deals for exchange of.
prisoners, got her sons in the trade. Alas, Robert died during the trip home,.
and Elizabeth was barely able to save Andrew. Being the courageous woman that.
she was, Elizabeth Jackson made a journey to Charlestown Harbor, where she.
intended to help American soldiers sick in British prison ships, but while.
nursing the plague-ridden men, she caught cholera herself and died. Andrew.
Jackson's response, "I felt utterly alone", was all that needed to conclude.
his.
feelings about events at that time.
The following years after that, until he ventured into politics,.
included going from city to city in South Carolina seeking the horse-race and.
drinking his heart out. Uncontrolled and unrestrained by anyone or anything.
besides money, Andrew would come to see and do almost everything imaginable at.
that time in the United States. He had also gone into various professions,.
from.
teaching to law. It was at law where he began his rise to politics.
On the road to becoming a lawyer, Jackson's first stop was be apprentice.
to Spruce MaCay, in North Carolina. But simply being apprentice wasn't.
