A period of rest at the Hermitage was
interrupted in the autumn of 1815 by a horseback trip to Washington
which involved a succession of dinners and receptions. But after a few
months the much feted soldier was back at Nashville, ready, as he
said, to "resume the cultivation of that friendly intercourse with my
friends and neighbors which has heretofore constituted so great a
portion of my happiness."
After Jackson had talked over his actions at New Orleans with both the
President and the Secretary of War, he had received, as he says, "a
chart blank," approving his "whole proceedings"; so he had nothing
further to worry about on that score. The national army had been
reorganized on a peace footing, in two divisions, each under command
of a major general. The northern division fell to Jacob Brown of New
York, the hero of Lundy's Lane; the southern fell to Jackson, with
headquarters at Nashville.
Jackson was the last man to suppose that warfare in the southern half
of the United States was a thing of the past. He knew that the late
contest had left the southern Indians restless and that the existing
treaties were likely to be repudiated at any moment.
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