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From James Madison to John Armstrong, 5 August 1814

To John Armstrong

Aug. 5. 1814

If there be occasion for an appt. in the Quarter Masters Dept. Mr Tyler may be commissioned.1 If no occasion, & he will accept one of the original vacancies in a Company, he may be appointed to it.

J.M.

RC (PHi: Daniel Parker Papers). Unaddressed; addressee identified based on internal evidence.

1. Septimius Tyler wrote James Monroe on 13 Sept. 1814, repeating his request for a commission in the quartermaster’s department (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Tyler”). On 15 Sept. he was appointed an assistant deputy quartermaster general at the rank of captain (Heitman, Historical Register, description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends 1:977).

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    From James Madison to John Armstrong, 5 August 1814
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    Armstrong, John
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    5 August 1814

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    “From James Madison to John Armstrong, 5 August 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-08-02-0085. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 8, July 1814–18 February 1815 and supplement December 1779–18 April 1814, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 85.]

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