Dickins, Asbury; Forney, John W. American State Papers. Military Affairs. Class 5, Vol. 4. Documents of the Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States...&c. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1860. First Edition. [11603]
Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers; otherwise clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. 948 pp. including index; light foxing, tight. Good. Hardcover.
This volume covers the years 1828 to 1832, and includes all of the documents pertaining to the military affairs of the government of the United States.
This book is necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. It is full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere. This volume emphasizes the protection of the western frontiers.
Reports on the militias, tactics, fortifications, officers, foundries, expenses, armories, rules and regulations, &c., &c., all given in minute detail. Sections on the Militia of the United States; Military Roads; Map - Plan of Key West; Militia of South Carolina; Military Academy; Compensation of Army Officers; Plate - Survey of Carters Iron Works on the Doe River, East Tennessee; Plate - Survey of the Falls of the Chatahouchie; Plate - Embry's Iron-Works; Plate - Survey of the Falls of Embry's River, East Tennessee; additional plates in the section, "Site for an Armory"; Army Register; Plate - Fort projected on the ground occupied by Fort Griswold for the defence of the Thames River; Construction of Fort Griswold.
