Letter from the Secretary of War, Accompanied By a Report of the Chief Engineer, in Relation to the Survey, Location, and Progress, of the Road From the Right Bank of the Ohio . (19th Congress, First Session: Document Number 51)

Barbour, James; United States. Congress. House of Representatives. War Department

Published by Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826

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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stains, wrinkling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); small holes at spine edges (partly disbound); slight wear and browning to foredges and lower edges. 32 pages (including wrappers). Upper wrapper title; title continued: Opposite to Wheeling, to the State of Missouri. At head of title: Road From Wheeling to Missouri. Includes communications from Chief Engineer Alexander Macomb, and a few others (including the 'memoir' of J. Knight), with Barbour's introductory letter. Dated January 21, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Read, and laid upon the table'; upper wrapper). Barbour (1775-1842), Virginia-born American statesman; Governor of Virginia (1812-15); US Senator (1815-25); Secretary of War (1825-28); changed from being a Jeffersonian Democrat to a supporter of John Quincy Adams.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letter from the Secretary of War, Accompanied By a Report of the Chief Engineer, in Relation to the Survey, Location, and Progress, of the Road From the Right Bank of the Ohio . (19th Congress, First Session: Document Number 51)
• Publisher: Printed By Gales & Seaton
• Publication Date: 1826
• Binding: Unknown
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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