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McKenney, Thomas L : Reply to Kosciusko Armstrong's Assault upon Col. McKenney's Narrative of the Causes That Led to General Armstrong's Resignation of the Office of Secretary of War in 1814

William H. Graham, New York, 1847

Original publisher's brown wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed in black ink by the author in the upper-right corner of the front cover. Inscription reads, "From the author with his respects to Mr. [...] of Fairfield, Con't [?]." 5 3/4" x 9." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are foxed. Covers have a few faint marks. Front cover has a small chip in the upper-right corner barely affecting the inscription (only the word, "his" is affected, but it is still mostly intact). A Very Good copy. Thomas L. McKenney (1785-1859) was a United States official. He was Superintendent of Indian Affairs (later part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) from 1824-1830. John Armstrong, Jr. (1758-1843) was an American politician and military officer. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and U.S. Senator from New York and was a brigadier general and Secretary of War during the War of 1812. A published series of counter-arguments by Thomas L. McKenney to John Armstrong's denouncement of a chapter titled, "Vindication of General Armstrong," in McKenney's book, Memoirs, Official and Personal, with Sketches of Travels Among the Northern and Southern Indians; Embracing a War Excursion, and Descriptions of Scenes Along the Western Borders. In this particular chapter, McKenney detailed the events that led up to Armstrong's resignation as Secretary of War, and Armstrong was offended by what McKenney wrote about him. During the War of 1812, Armstrong had achieved the rank of Brigadier General and was later appointed Secretary of War by President James Madison in 1813. Just one year later, Madison forced Armstrong to resign in 1814 following the capture and razing of Washington, D.C. by the British Army. Many felt Armstrong was responsible for the capture of Washington given that he had mistakenly thought British forces were planning to take Baltimore and subsequently withheld American troops even when it became clear that the British Army was heading toward the capital. This pamphlet is composed entirely of McKenney's counter-arguments in which he addresses past comments by Armstrong about his book.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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