Letter from the Secretary of War, To the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, Transmitting a Statement of the Expenditure of the Appropriation for Arming and Equipping the Whole Body of the Militia, for the Year 1822 ...
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1823. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059820
Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to upper wrapper); wear to foredges and lower edges. 5 pages + plates. Upper wrapper title; title continued: Also, a Statement of Existing Engagements for Supplying Arms, &c. Under the Law for Arming the Whole of the Militia of the United States; With an Estimate of the Amount Required by Each, During the Year 1823. At head of title: 74 (in brackets). Introductory letters by Calhoun and Lieutenant Colonel George Bomford (on ordnance duty). Dated February 18, 1823; 'Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed' (upper wrapper). Calhoun (1782-1850), South Carolina-born statesman and political philosopher; graduate of Yale (1804), elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1808 and to the US Congress in 1810; supporter of the War of 1812 (even after the Treaty of Ghent); Secretary of War under James Monroe (1817-25) and noted for his improvements in army organization; elected US Vice President (1824, 1828) but soon alienated from Andrew Jackson over the nullification issue; served for a time as Secretary of State (under John Tyler); of further note for his positions on slavery and the Mexican War.2 Folding Tables / Plates.
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