Item #L059926 Report from the Secretary of War, Relative to Additional Means of Defence for the Mississippi River ... (19th Congress, First Session). James Barbour.

Report from the Secretary of War, Relative to Additional Means of Defence for the Mississippi River ... (19th Congress, First Session)

Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fair / No Jacket. Item #L059926

Fair +. Last leaf detached; slight stains, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to wrappers and extremities); slight creases to upper right corners; slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 11 pages. Upper wrapper title; title continued: In Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of April 28, 1826. At head of title: 90 (in brackets). Includes communications from Chief Engineer Alexander Macomb, Brigadier General Bernard and US Navy Captain Daniel Todd Patterson, with Barbour's introductory letter. Dated May 8, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Printed by order of the Senate of the United States'; upper wrapper). Sold 'as is'. 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. Macomb (1782-1841), American soldier; one of the first to be trained at West Point (commissioned as first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, 1802; appointed captain, 1805); noted for his defense of Plattsburg, New York in the War of 1812 (September 11, 1814); head of the Corps of Engineers (1821); commanding general of the US Army from 1828 until death. Patterson (1786-1839), American naval officer; noted for his successful raid against Jean Laffite at Barataria Bay, Louisiana (1814) and his naval support for Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans on Lake Borgne (1815).

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