James Madison Papers

To James Madison from J. Aaron Emanuel Vonhalle, 19 February 1810 (Abstract)

§ From J. Aaron Emanuel Vonhalle

19 February 1810, Fort McHenry. Informs JM that in the “greatest Distress” he enlisted five months ago as a soldier in Capt. George Armistead’s company but now seeks a discharge.

RC (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, V-7:5). 1 p. A second letter from Vonhalle to JM, 20 Feb. 1810 (ibid.; 1 p.), adding that his family wished him to return to his native Prussia, is docketed by a War Department clerk as received 22 Feb. 1810.

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    To James Madison from J. Aaron Emanuel Vonhalle, 19 February 1810 (Abstract)
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    Vonhalle, J. Aaron Emanuel
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    Madison, James
    Date
    19 February 1810

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    “To James Madison from J. Aaron Emanuel Vonhalle, 19 February 1810 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0295. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 242.]