According to his good friend and neighbor growing up, he was born and raised in the Sugar Grove area of Butler County. This is where they went to visit their families during the war, according to John M. Porter's memoirs in "One of Morgan's Men".

He was in the confederate Army from Kentucky during the Civil War. He had been captured two times one time he escaped was thru a drain pipe and jumped over a cliff into the river. One time he was traded out. He enlisted at Georgetown Kentucky 15 Jul 1862. He was a sergeant in Co. F 9th Reg. Kentucky Cavalry; Breckenridge Battalion, Kentucky Cavalry and Stoner's Battalion were consolidated in December 1862. They formed the 4th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry. He was captured at Leavenworth, Indiana on 14 June 1863 but was transferred to Fort Delaware on 14 July 1863. On the Fort Delaware prisoner roll, it states he was captured at Blue Island, where he was recaptured after escaping. Blue Island is in the Ohio River. He was paroled 30 July 1863 in a prisoner exchange of 752 Confederate prisoners at City Point, Virginia.

He had pay slips at Camp Lee near Richmond, Virginia, on 4 Aug 1863, that stated the rest of his company were near Knoxville. The war ended 9 April 1865 and on 9 May 1865, Andrew Jackson surrendered at Washington, Georgia and took the oath of Allegiance. He was dark in complexion and hair, grey eyes and was 6' 1" in height.

Andrew J. and wife Hellen (Helon) lived in Bowling Green, Kentucky after the war until their third son was born. They began their journey west in 1871. A former slave who had been his nanny, who he loved like family, went with them. They settled in Kansas until the opening of the Oklahoma land rush. He received land at the land office in Enid, Oklahoma on 9 December 1893 and remained in Oklahoma for the rest of his life.

He was buried on 12 February 1927.