31To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 10 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
John Chew, a former Virginia military accountant, in November 1815 was appointed commissioner for the settlement of accounts between the United States and the state of Virginia arising from the War of 1812 (“Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia … [1816],”
32To James Madison from Edward Coles, 20 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
Moses Green (d. 1856), a planter who lived at Liberty Hall in Culpeper County, Virginia, was adjutant general of the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1799–1802, and 1809–11 (Jones,
33From James Madison to David Porter, 20 July 1819 (Madison Papers)
in the War of 1812. JM appointed him a commissioner of the Navy Board in 1815, where he served until late 1822. He resided at Meridian Hill in Washington, D.C. He was commander of the West Indian squadron, 1823–25,
34To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 2 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
48467). Lee wrote of JM and the outcome of the War of 1812: “Thus President Madison had the happiness, in retiring from office, of leaving his country at peace abroad, united at home, with increased character, and irradiated with glory” (p. 14).
35To James Madison from Spencer Roane, 22 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
, 1804–45, and a political force for the Jeffersonian Republicans and later the Democratic Party in Virginia. He supported JM and served briefly in the War of 1812. Ritchie edited the Washington, D.C.,
36From James Madison to John Taylor and James Garnett, 10 September 1819 (Madison Papers)
...since their boyhood days at Donald Robertson’s school, Taylor found JM’s politics to be insufficiently Republican and opposed his candidacy for president in 1808 as well as the War of 1812. A writer on political and agricultural topics, Taylor served as president of the Virginia Society for Promoting Agriculture and delivered his presidential address in 1818. James Mercer Garnett (1770...
37To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 September 1819 (Madison Papers)
...1750–1828) was a Revolutionary War veteran, governor of South Carolina, 1787–89, minister to Great Britain, 1792–96, a member of Congress, 1797–1801, and a major general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 (
38From James Madison to James Monroe, [ante–24 November] 1819 (Madison Papers)
LeRoy Opie (d. 1819) was a veteran of the War of 1812 and served as U.S. Army paymaster for North Carolina and Virginia (
39To James Madison from Clarkson Crolius, 29 November 1819 (Madison Papers)
Clarkson Crolius (1773–1843) was a potter and stoneware manufacturer, a veteran of the War of 1812, and a New York state politician. In 1819 Crolius was grand sachem of the Tammany Society (William C. Ketchum Jr.,
40Account of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, [ca. 6 December] 1819 (Madison Papers)
Isaac A. Coles (1780–1841), Dolley Payne Madison’s second cousin, briefly served as secretary to JM during his first year as president. A veteran of the War of 1812, Coles was a planter who lived at Enniscorthy in Albemarle County, Virginia (
41To James Madison from Francis Preston, 30 January 1820 (Madison Papers)
...Representatives, 1793–97, and represented Washington County, Virginia, in the House of Delegates, 1812–14, and in the state Senate, 1817–20. He rose to the rank of major general in the state militia during the War of 1812 (
42To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
...United States in 1803. He stood as the Federalist vice presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808, and as the Federalist presidential candidate in 1816. As U.S. senator, 1813–24, he opposed JM’s administration and the War of 1812; later, he opposed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and was outspoken in his attacks on the extension of slavery (
43To James Madison from James Barbour, 10 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
...the U.S. House of Representatives, 1797–1801, the Massachusetts legislature, 1802–17, and the U.S. Senate, 1817–22. An active Federalist, he was a leader in the opposition to JM’s administration and the War of 1812, as well as spokesman for the Hartford Convention of 1814. In the debates over the Missouri question, he took a leading part against the extension of slavery into the territories.
44To James Madison from Martin Van Buren, 15 March 1820 (Madison Papers)
Daniel D. Tompkins (1774–1825) was governor of New York, 1807–17, and vice president of the United States, 1817–25. A strong supporter of JM’s administration and the War of 1812, Tompkins bolstered his state’s war effort with his personal fortune but bitterly disappointed JM by refusing the president’s offer to become secretary of state in 1814 (
45To James Madison from Alexander Tunstall, 10 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Charles K. Mallory (1781–1820) was a Virginia legislator and lieutenant governor of the state during the War of 1812. In 1814 JM appointed him customs collector of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and he held this post until his death (
46To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1820 (Madison Papers)
Robert Barraud Taylor (1774–1834) was a Norfolk lawyer, a veteran of the War of 1812, and a member of the original board of visitors of the University of Virginia, serving from 1819 to 1822 (Tyler,
47To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, 1 July 1820 (Madison Papers)
For Wheaton’s detailed reports of his experiences during the War of 1812, see his letters to JM of 10, 23, 29, and 31 Dec. 1812, 3 and 8 Jan., 10, 12, and 26 Feb., 26 Apr., and 1 May 1813 (
48To James Madison from Andrew Ramsay, 5 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
George Graham (ca. 1772–1830) was a veteran of the War of 1812 from Dumfries, Virginia, who served as chief clerk in the War Department, 1814–18. In 1818 he was sent as a special agent to Texas. He was president of the Washington branch of the Second Bank of...
49To James Madison from Jacob De La Motta, 7 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
...in Savannah, Georgia, but spent most of his life in Charleston, South Carolina. He received his medical education in Philadelphia and held a commission as surgeon in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. He was active in local politics and was a contributor to the scientific and literary discourse of his time. Among the many community and charitable organizations of which he was a member...
50To James Madison from Andrew Ramsay, 30 August 1820 (Madison Papers)
The Rev. William Hawley (d. 1845) was a veteran of the War of 1812 who served as the second rector of St. John’s Church in Washington from 1817 until his death (Van Horne,
51To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 2 September 1820 (Madison Papers)
...17, 1819–25, and 1827–29, and in the U.S. Senate, 1825–27. A powerful voice for the Republican party during the first Jefferson administration, Randolph openly opposed JM for president in 1808 and opposed the War of 1812. He briefly served as U.S. minister to Russia in 1830 (Bruce,
52To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, 26 September 1820 (Madison Papers)
David Trimble (1782–1842), born in Virginia and educated at the College of William and Mary, was a War of 1812 veteran and a Kentucky Republican who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1817–27 (
53To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 13 November 1820 (Madison Papers)
John Minor (1761–1816) was a lawyer and veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, who made his home at Hazel Hill in Fredericksburg (Tyler,
54To James Madison from John Tayloe, 1 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
on the route between Washington and Aquia Creek near Fredricksburg. The $40,000 ship was built in New York under the direction of Robert Fulton in 1813 but owing to the War of 1812 did not make its maiden voyage until 1815. Competition with the Alexandria and Norfolk Steam Boat Company drove the Potomac company out of business in 1822 (Donald G. Shomette,
55To James Madison from William Thornton, 20 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
..., in the U.S. Senate, 1819–1829, and as vice president of the United States, 1836–40. He supported the Madison administration, and raised two regiments of mounted volunteers, commanding troops in several engagements during the War of 1812, including the Battle of the Thames, where he is said to have killed Tecumseh (
56To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [post–20] February 1821 (Madison Papers)
John Floyd (1783–1837) of Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), was educated at Dickinson College and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. A veteran of the War of 1812, Floyd served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1817–29, and as governor of Virginia, 1830–34 (Sobel and Raimo,
57To James Madison from James Monroe, 19 May 1821 (Madison Papers)
...1831) of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1797–1801 and 1813–15, and in the state Senate, 1804–8. He was a major general in the state militia during the War of 1812 and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1818–19. He was appointed U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Virginia in April 1821. He died in a riverboat accident on the...
58From James Madison to Joseph Gales Jr., 12 June 1821 (Madison Papers)
in wch. he expresses a particular desire to possess in the Newspaper form a series of papers published by him during the war of 1812, under the title of Conciliator. He remarks that they were republished in the Intelligencer, and that you sent him the 3 first numbers, with your exordium. From what he says I infer that he will be very...
59To James Madison from Joseph Gales Jr., 22 June 1821 (Madison Papers)
The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study
60To James Madison from Mathew Carey, 26 June 1821 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812