Unit+IV+Discussion

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Rachel Jackso n died shortly after the election of her husband (and our 7th president). The presidential election of 1828 was one of the most slanderous and ugly in our history and Andrew Jackson blamed his political enemies for her death. Wearing the white dress she had purchased for her husband's inaugural ceremonies in March 1829, Rachel Donelson Jackson was buried in the garden at The Hermitage, their home near Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas Eve in 1828. Her gravestone speaks to this sentiment and reads, //"A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor"// //. //