91To James Madison from William P. Duval, 14 November 1826 (Madison Papers)
Regiment of Infantry during the War of 1812, retiring as a colonel in 1821. A year later, he was appointed a federal judge in East Florida. Smith’s antipathy toward
92To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 21 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
...1785–1872) of Braintree, Massachusetts, studied at Dartmouth College but graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1808 and subsequently served in the War of 1812. From 1817 to 1833, he was superintendent at West Point, where his reorganization of the school and its curriculum created a first-class institution. From 1833 until his retirement in 1863, Thayer was chief...
93To James Madison from John Hartwell Cocke, 2 April 1827 (Madison Papers)
John G. Gamble (1779–1852) was a Richmond merchant and veteran of the War of 1812. He served as chief engineer for the James River Company, June 1821–March 1823, before being replaced by Moncure Robinson (
94To James Madison from John Myers, 2 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
John Myers (1787–1830) was a Norfolk merchant. He served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert B. Taylor, the commander of U.S. forces at Norfolk during the War of 1812, and as deputy collector of customs at Norfolk from 1828 until his death (Rosenbloom,
95To James Madison from John A. Dix, 20 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
John A. Dix (1798–1879) was a veteran of the War of 1812 who remained in the army until 1826, assigned some of that time as aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Jacob Jennings Brown and rising to the rank of major. (For Dix’s visit to Montpelier with Brown...
96To 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
97To James Madison from Duff Green, 15 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
Duff Green (1791–1875), a veteran of the War of 1812, was a prominent Missouri merchant and politician before he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1825 and purchased the
98To James Madison from William Beach Lawrence, 30 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Edward Sabine (1788–1883), a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and a career army officer who achieved the rank of general in 1870, was a veteran of the War of 1812 who fought in the Niagara Campaign in 1814. On his return to England, Sabine immersed himself in studies of astronomy and ornithology, and he was elected to the Royal Society in 1818, serving as its secretary, 1827–...
99To James Madison from John Cox, 1 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
...13 Jan. 1828; to John C. Calhoun, 30 July 1826; and to Samuel Southard, 1 May 1825, attesting to the excellence of Cox’s character and his exertions in support of U.S. forces during the War of 1812.
100To James Madison from Jonathan Roberts, 15 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812
101Thomas Dyson Clark to James Madison, 12 September 1834 (Madison Papers)
...look as a father would took to his family
and let ambition alone there would and is more Room to Heal than to Lascerate. I Digress. But one thing I Know that I
fought for my Country in the War of 1812. I went from Louisville Kentucky But if such a partiality of measures will
ultimately go on I say in
102Roberts to James Madison, 1 September 1822, with Postscript to Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson Papers)
for both the War of 1812 and “the deplorable condition of our common Country” since that time; accused