Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Chief Engineer, Relative to the Application of the Appropriation for Removing Obstructions to the Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (19th Congress, First Session: Document No. 14)
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059898
Slight stains, wrinkling, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 31 pages. Upper wrapper title. Includes communications from Alexander Macomb, Samuel Babcock, and numerous others, with Barbour's introductory letter. Dated January 5, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Printed by order of the Senate of the United States'; upper wrapper). Barbour (1775-1842), Virginia-born American statesman; Governor of Virginia (1812-15); US Senator (1815-25); Secretary of War (1825-28); changed from being a Jeffersonian Democrat to a supporter of John Quincy Adams.
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