Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting Information in Relation to Routes for a National Road from Washington City to Buffalo . (19th Congress, Second Session: Document Number 15)

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight stains, wrinkling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to wrappers and extremities); slight wear and browning to foredges and lower edges. 4 pages (including wrappers). Upper wrapper title; title continued: Also, Information Respecting the Progress in Fulfilment of the Act of the Last Session of Congress, Authorizing a Survey of Roanoke Inlet and Sound. At head of title: Road -- Washington to Buffalo. / Survey -- Roanoke Inlet, &c. Includes a communication from Chief Engineer Macomb (dated December 13, 1826), with Barbour's introductory letter. Dated December 18, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Read, and referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals'; 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. Macomb (1782-1841), American soldier; one of the first to be trained at West Point (commissioned as first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, 1802; appointed captain, 1805); noted for his defense of Plattsburg, New York in the War of 1812 (September 11, 1814); head of the Corps of Engineers (1821); commanding general of the US Army from 1828 until death.…