The American Revolution was one long agony for Andrew Jackson. Perhaps there were moments, when he felt like a patriot and hero, but most of the time he experienced hardship, pain, disease, multiple wounds of the head and fingers, and grief arising from the annihilation of his immediate family. He emerged from the Revolution burdened with sorrow and a deep-seated depression. He saw himself as a participant “in the struggle for our liberties” and he never forgot the price that he and others had paid to secure them.26 He also emerged marked with deep patriotic and nationalistic convictions,
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