Old Hickory's Volunteers

“I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”

— Andrew Jackson”

We consider the United States of America to be the people of America endowed by the Fathers of our nation with a rich and beautiful land, love for justice, and the blessings of liberty. This organization, chartered Old Hickory's Volunteers of Middle Tennessee, is the Middle Tennessean chapter of the Old Glory Club, a fraternal organization of men bound together by charity and love, but also the unbreakable bonds of a shared national heritage. In imitation of the valor and character of those who—pioneering the frontier of Tennessee—overcame the cruel opposition of nature and Indian, we shall labor to preserve and increase the civilization of Tennessee respecting the full sum of her history.

Our Club, so established, shall keep faith with the values of our parent organization, the Old Glory Club, and so forth loyally serve the interests of the United States of America with no little love in each heart for her star-spangled banner (the Old Glory). The membership shall endeavor to be gentlemen of honorable conduct in every private and public dealing who recognize and seek the obligations that history and nature lay about their neck. By civic involvement and strengthened by joy, fraternity shall be from each man and to each man the happy bond of fellowship and sublime duty.

Old Hickory's Volunteers embrace the ideal of great men and choose Andrew Jackson as the great man of history to serve as an example for the membership of this organization. Middle Tennessee has value to us beyond its good earth and clear water: yesteryear Jackson's home, today our home and home likewise for millions of our kin. This sentimental value carries the very substance of life well lived and justifies our toil for local splendor.

Our membership will require each man to make of himself a character worthy of the judgment of an all-mighty and good God. Since ancient times men have measured themselves before men and God by virtues: prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, fidelity, piety, industry, and courage. We shall endeavor to uphold each of these in persons and through our persons lend greatness to our organization. In these times of ours, heroes will often go unsung; but beyond what we may do, we intend anyone with eyes shall gain some sense of us, ‘there so noble, that man is a Volunteer.’

Contact Old Hickory's Volunteers at this email address: nashville.oldgloryclub@gmail.com