James Madison Papers

To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 February 1814 (Abstract)

From John Armstrong, 3 February 1814 (Abstract)

§ From John Armstrong. 3 February 1814, War Department. “I have the honor to lay before you a list of appointments which have been made in the Army of the United States during the Recess of the Senate.”

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 13B-A2); letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure (DNA: RG 107, LSP). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Armstrong. The enclosure (7 pp.; printed in Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 2:476–79) included two hundred and fifty-one appointments in the Corps of Engineers, dragoons, artillery, infantry, Regiment of Riflemen, Sea Fencibles, and Rangers. JM forwarded the list to the Senate in a message dated 16 Feb. 1814, together with Armstrong’s second letter of 3 Feb. and one of 10 Feb. 1814 (ibid., 2:475, 480, 492).

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    To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 February 1814 (Abstract)
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    Armstrong, John
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    Madison, James
    Date
    3 February 1814

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    “To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 February 1814 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-07-02-0226. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 25 October 1813–30 June 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, pp. 265–266.]

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