I have read quite a lot on Andrew Jackson and admirer him both as a man and as a President. He wasn’t perfect, no man is, but he was certainly one of our best Presidents. I certainly wouldn’t say I’m an expert but I would say I have a solid sense of his character. So I think in all probability if South Carolina would have fired on any federal troops or forts, as they did in 1861, his response would have been much harsher than Lincoln’s.
Unlike that spineless wimp Buchanan he sent more troops to forts inside South Carolina and had Winfield Scott draw up plans for an invasion. Now he did order that under no circumstances were US troops to fire the first shots.
I really like his quote when asked at the end of his Presidency what regrets he had;
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
I lived in New Orleans for two years as a kid. My mom dragged us all over town (there was so much history on display!) and my favorite was the statue of Andrew Jackson astride his horse in Jackson Square. It made quite an impression on me.