Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting Copies of the Reports and Drawings of the Superintending Engineer, Relating to the Repair of Plymouth Beach (18th Congress, Second Session)
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1825. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059911
Slight stains, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); small holes at spine edges (disbound); wear to foredges and lower edges. 11 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: 27 (in brackets). Includes 2 communications by William H. Chase (Lieutenant, US Engineers), plus introductory letters by Calhoun and Major General Alexander Macomb (Chief Engineer); statistical information present, but no drawings. Dated January 3, 1825 on upper wrapper ('Read: ordered that it lie upon the table'; 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.
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