1To James Madison from James Burn, 23 February 1824 (Madison Papers)
Peter Little (1775–1830), of Freedom, Maryland, was a veteran of the War of 1812 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1811–13, and 1816–29.Isaac McKim (1775–1838) was a Baltimore merchant and veteran of the War of 1812. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1823–25, and from 1833 until his death.
2To 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 (
3To James Madison from James Monroe, 21 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
William King (1768–1852), half-brother of Rufus King, was a merchant, shipbuilder, and Massachusetts state politician from Bath (District of Maine). He served in the War of 1812 as a militia major general, and after July 1813 as a colonel in the U.S. Army. King was an active supporter of Maine’s secession from Massachusetts and served as the new state’s first governor, 1820...
4To 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.
5To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 October 1818 (Madison Papers)
...speaker. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1808 and served two subsequent terms, leaving office in 1817, when he was elected to the state senate. A Jeffersonian Republican, he was a strong supporter of JM and the War of 1812.
6To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
...Sullivan (1783–1866), the son of former Massachusetts governor James Sullivan (1744–1808) and a Harvard graduate, was the Massachusetts state agent in Washington pursuing the claims of the state for reimbursement for militia activity during the War of 1812 (
7To James Madison from James Monroe, 24 November 1817 (Madison Papers)
John Caldwell Calhoun (1782–1850) was a South Carolina congressman, 1811–17, who strongly supported JM’s administration during the War of 1812. His terms of service included secretary of war, 1817–25, vice president, 1825–32, the U.S. Senate, 1832–43, secretary of state, 1844–45, and again in the U.S. Senate, 1845 until...
8To James Madison from James Monroe, 3 September 1823 (Madison Papers)
These papers have not been identified. For Daniel D. Tompkins’s claims against the United States resulting from his actions as governor of New York during the War of 1812, see Irwin,
9To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
, 3:91–111. The convention dealt with the right of the United States to claim indemnification for private property, specifically slaves, carried away by British forces during the War of 1812.
10To James Madison from James Barbour, 14 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
’s nephew, Conway C. Macon (1792–1860), a planter living at Mt. Erin in Orange County, Virginia, who served in the state militia during the War of 1812, was county sheriff in 1843, and a justice of the peace. He sold his property in 1848 and eventually moved to Richmond, where he was employed as a tobacco inspector (Chapman, “Descendants of Ambrose Madison,”...
11To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
Daniel Bissell (1769–1833) served as a fifer in the American Revolution and joined the First U.S. Infantry in 1788. He rose to the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812 and was retained in the army on the peace establishment in 1816 as
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
12To 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...
13To James Madison from James Monroe, 27 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
...several thousand acres near Watertown in 1799. In 1809 he began what was to become a distinguished military career when he was appointed to command a militia regiment. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he was a brigadier general of the New York militia, in which capacity he organized the successful defense of Sackets Harbor in 1813. Commissioned brigadier general in the U.S. Army in...
14To James Madison from James Monroe, [ca. 6] April 1824 (Madison Papers)
: Jefferson Papers). Monroe informed Jefferson that the administration had denied Virginia’s request to be paid interest on the money the state had borrowed and paid to its militia during the War of 1812 but that the claim should be presented to Congress.
15To 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 (
16To James Madison from James Riley, 19 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
James Riley (1777–1840) was a Connecticut-born sea captain and veteran of the War of 1812 whose brig
17To James Madison from James H. Blake, 4 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
...(ca. 1792–1820), son of Charles Carroll of Belle Vue in Maryland, served as Henry Clay’s secretary during the Anglo-American negotiations at Ghent and carried to Washington the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812. In 1818 President James Monroe appointed Charles Carroll to be land register for Howard County, Missouri Territory, and it was there that Henry Carroll was murdered in...
18To James Madison from James Taylor, 7 November 1818 (Madison Papers)
...Stewart Todd (1791–1871), the son of Thomas Todd and the son-in-law of former Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, was a graduate of the College of William and Mary, a lawyer, and a veteran of the War of 1812. He served as U.S. minister first to Colombia, 1820–24, and later to Russia, 1841–46 (
19To James Madison from Robert Pollard & Son, 17 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
Dr. Charles Beale (1795–1853) was a veteran of the War of 1812 who served in the Virginia militia and founded the town of Gordonsville. He married Mary Harrison Gordon, daughter of Nathaniel Gordon, and purchased an estate he called Weston that fell on both sides of the Richmond–Swift Run...Index to War of 1812 Pension Files
20To James Madison from Alexander Macomb, 18 June 1827 (Madison Papers)
Alexander Macomb (1782–1841) was a career army officer who was promoted to brevet major general for his defense of Plattsburgh, New York, during the War of 1812. He was appointed chief engineer of the army after the war and in 1828 became commanding general, a position he held until his death (Heidler and Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
21To James Madison from John S. Barbour, 18 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
...for eight terms between 1813 and 1834, and in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1823–33. He was a cousin of James and Philip Pendleton Barbour and served as an aide to Gen. William Madison in the War of 1812. Barbour’s eulogy of JM, delivered at Culpeper Court House on 18 July 1836, was published in the
22To 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.,
23To James Madison from William Bainbridge, 27 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
William Bainbridge (1774–1833) was a U.S. naval officer who saw service in the Quasi-War, the war against the Barbary states, and the War of 1812.
24To 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 (
25To James Madison from William Browne, 4 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
Constant Freeman (1757–1824) was a career soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and commanded troops in the Orleans Territory after the Louisiana Purchase. He was an accountant in the Navy Department and was appointed an auditor of the Treasury Department in 1817 (
26To James Madison from John H. Hall and Others, 10 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Moses M. Russell (d. 1852), of South Carolina, was second lieutenant in the First Artillery during the War of 1812, saw combat at the battles of Chippawa, Fort Erie, and Fort McHenry, and was honorably discharged in June 1815. In 1817 he was appointed U.S. consul at Riga but apparently never established himself there (Baltimore
27To James Madison from Elbert Anderson, 12 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Elbert Anderson (d. 1830), an army contractor during the War of 1812, initiated a claim against the United States in 1823 for “amounts actually due him by the terms of the said contract, partly by way of compensation for articles furnished and services rendered beyond the requisitions of the said...
28To 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...
29To James Madison from William B. Randolph, 20 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
On the bankruptcy of her husband, David Meade Randolph, in 1808, Mary Randolph solicited an office for her son, William Beverley Randolph (1789–1868). After a stint in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, Randolph secured an appointment to a clerkship in the Treasury Department. He later served as chief clerk of the department, 1836–68 (
30To James Madison from Thomas Cramer, 4 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812