1To James Madison from the Officers of the Volunteer Militia in the District of Columbia, 22 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
The Committee appointed by the Officers of the Volunteer Companies, has been requested to address you on the subject of the organization of those Companies into a separate Legion. The motives for suggesting that organization were briefly these. 1st The volunteer companies, had no confidence in the military skill or experience of a principal part of the field Officers of the Militia, seeing...