Barbour, James; Gadsden, James; et al. [US MILITARY] Documents accompanying The President's Message to Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of The Nineteenth Congress. December 6, 1825. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1825. First Edition. [12183]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 168 clean pp. This document contains all of the matter revealing the military strength of the United States in 1825. The last section, pp. 169-188, the Treaty with the Republic of Columbia, is not present and is being sold separately. Very good. Disbound.
19th Congress, 1st Session, Document no. 2.
Detailed reports, with folding charts, of the condition of the United States Military.
These include: Reports on the US Army, showing the number of men and officers of every regiment; the distribution of troops stationed at each fort, including the names of each commander; a report of the survey of a road from St. Augustine to Cape Florida; the amounts of money distributed to each paymaster, with their names; names of, and monies paid to, contractors; lists of clothing and their costs; lists of officers receiving, amounts, and aims, of monies distributed for ordinance; chart of arms - muskets, rifles, rifle flasks, bayonets, &c. - and their costs; the same for artillery; charts and descriptive reports of forts and other matter of the Engineer Department; the complete report of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; Report of the Office of Indian Affairs, by Thomas L. McKenney; charts of monies dispersed by the Office of Indian Affairs; folding chart identifying Indian Schools, where established, by whom the number of Teachers, Pupils, payments, &c.; Documents from the Department of the Navy with reports from individual ships and their captains; list of deaths in the Navy, and their causes; statement of the number and types of officers and their pay; charts of payments and rations for officers; &c., &c.
