He is best known today for his association with U.S. president Andrew Jackson and as the father of a general of the Confederate States Army.

[1] According to a family history, "During the second term of General Washington's administration [1793–1797], he received from the President, a commission of Lieutenant in the U. S.

[3] Once upon a time, "Anderson had supplied [Andrew] Jackson with such goodies as game cocks from Virginia and hot tips on land investments.

"[4] According to John Spencer Bassett's notes in The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Clover Bottom "was leased in November 21, 1804, by William Preston Anderson, with the privilege of buying 300 acres on the south for $3,000.

On March 5, 1805, he sold two-thirds of his rights in the enterprise to Andrew Jackson and John Hutchings, and Apr.

[8] Some or all of these men also had connections to Andrew Jackson and were involved in the settlement by white slave owners of what became the Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area.

After Lewis' death on the Natchez Trace in 1809, William Clark wrote his brother that he was going to check with Anderson about the papers.

[1] On the Natchez Expedition of 1813, Methodist chaplain Learner Blackman made his acquaintance and reported that Anderson was "a very polite and agreeable man talked much with me about Religion.

[20] Thomas Waggaman, a resident in Washington, D.C. who apparently had worked closely with Charles Dickinson prior to his death, wrote to Felix Robertson on the eve of the 1828 election about the "Tennessee opposition" that "Col. Anderson's conduct appears to me at this distance equally strange and his motives must be very strong to justify a course characterized by so much violence.

You are miserably deficient in principle, and have seldom or never had power without abusing it.This got Anderson called a man "whose mind is much disturbed and shattered" by Jackson partisans, and the effort was ultimately to no avail: Jackson went on to eight years in the White House, while Anderson returned to private life.

[24] Patton Anderson and Andrew Jackson apparently jointly organized a series of cockfights for Fourth of July week in 1809, which were heavily patronized and during which "large sums of money and several horses were exchanged.

[26] The Magnesses were defended by Felix Grundy in their first trial, during which Patton Anderson was characterized as an unruly drunk and a violent character generally.

"[28] Character witnesses in Anderson's favor included Nashville mayor Joseph Coleman, and Andrew Jackson, who undermined the prosecution's case when he testified something to the effect of "Sir, my friend Patton Anderson was the natural enemy of villains and scoundrels!