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10.Between the rivers: Ibid.
11.It having been judged: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 325.
12.very judiciously: Ibid., 342.
13.they commenced a: Ibid.
14.with which he: Ibid.
15.every opportunity of: Roger Morriss, Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition: Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1773–1853 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press), 92.
16.had the satisfaction: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 342.
CHAPTER 2—MIGHTY LITTLE MADISON
1.The high character: Annals of Congress, 13th Congress, 1st Session, Library of Congress, May 3, 1813, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html, 14.
2.Mr. Madison is a small man: Ralph Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990), 476.
3.We regard Erskine’s: Rufus King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private and Official, His public documents, and His Speeches, vol. 5, ed. Charles King (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, July 1898), 187.
4.Hence the adjustment: Ibid., 190.
5.The high character: Annals of Congress, 13th Congress, 1st Session, Library of Congress, 14.
6.it was immediately: Ibid.
7.Three of our: Ibid.
8.further proof: Ibid., 14.
9.The issue of this: Ibid.
10.it of such: Jared Sparks, “Conflagration of Havre de Grace,” North American Review 5, no. 14 (July 1817): 161.
11.This was not: Ibid.
12.should resistance: George Cockburn, George Cockburn to Admiral Warren, April 29, 1813, Library of Congress, 25.
13.found that the: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 342.
14.two or three: Sparks, “Conflagration of Havre de Grace,” 161.
15.endeavored by: Ibid.
16.but when they: Ibid.
17.perforated with balls: Ibid., 162.
18.to cause the proprietors: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 342.
19.I embarked in: Ibid.
20.The most valuable works: Ibid.
21.and I have much: Ibid., 343.
22.But the most: Sparks, “Conflagration of Havre de Grace,” 163.
23.They returned wretched: Ibid.
24.No reasons of: Ibid., 162.
25.assign any cause: Ibid.
CHAPTER 3—HELLO, DOLLEY
1.We cannot be: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
2.her complexion: Dolley Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, April 2003), 13.
3.stately step: Ibid.
4.She came upon: Ibid.
5.He thinks too much: Ibid., 27.
6.he hopes that: Ibid.
7.She could raise: “Dolley Madison: America’s First Lady,” PBS: American Experience, 2010.
8.I give my hand: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 31.
9.In this union: Ibid.
10.Dolley Madison, Alas!: Ibid.
11.We cannot be: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
12.I trust in Heaven: Ibid.
13.situated up the: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 344.
14.only river or: Ibid.
15.sent forward the: Ibid.
16.assuring them if: Ibid.
17.that vessels and public: Ibid.
18.I am sorry to say: Ibid.
19.towns, which: Ibid., 345.
20.here I had the: Ibid.
21.well pleased with: Ibid.
22.I am assured that: Ibid.
23.I have little doubt: Talbot Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955), 388.
24.An express arrived: Ibid.
25.which surrounds us: Ibid.
26.Our honest, patriotic, firm: Ibid., 385–86.
27.So I am going to: Ibid.
28.This war has among: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 378.
29.But this unfortunate war: Ibid.
30.Before your receive: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
31.But tell him: Ibid.
32.every person condemns: Ibid.
33.I have shown: Ibid.
34.dignified representative: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 120.
35.resemblance of your: Ibid.
CHAPTER 4—DUELING STRATEGIES
1.And now, if: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
2.It is to land as: Ibid.
3.For the last week: Ibid.
4.Madison and General Armstrong: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 388.
5.Rules and Regulations: Edward C. Skeen, John Armstrong, Jr. 1758–1843 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1981), 128.
6.So many false alarming: Ibid., 130.
7.We are making: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
8.I do not tremble: Ibid.
9.Mr. Madison, whom your mother: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 386.
10.Tomorrow you will: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
11.But if you have: Ibid.
12.I am sorry: Ibid.
13.The dining room is: Ibid.
14.I therefore intended: Ibid.
15.But if you have: Ibid.
16.Your letter caused: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
17.We indulge this: Ibid.
18.and that of: Ibid.
19.Mr. M. can do: Ibid.
20.The winter is: Ibid.
21.in my eyes: Ibid.
22.A Mr. Elijah Mix: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 355.
23.You will furnish him: Ibid.
24.his plan is: Ibid.
25.He is an intrepid: Ibid.
26.If I were unmarried: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 389.
27.mathematical instruments: Ibid., 391.
28.Mix should be: Ibid.
29.the spirit and manner: Madison, The Writings of James Madison, 246.
30.savage fury: Ibid.
31.a system of plunder: Ibid.
32.equally forbidden: Ibid.
33.In continuation of: Ibid.
34.highest praise: Ibid.
35.On the Lakes: Ibid.
36.I am a great favorite: Skeen, John Armstrong, Jr.
37.This cannot from: Ibid.
38.Nothing can exceed: Ibid., 117.
39.She plays her part: Ibid.
40.Armstrong may take: Ibid., 119.
41.Rules and Regulations: Ibid., 117.
42.To the astonishment: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 227.
CHAPTER 5—KNICKERBOCKERS
1.You will have: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 294.
2.Of one thing: Ibid.
3.I shall probably: Ibid.
4.communication from: Annals of Congress, 13th Congress, 1st Session, Library of Congress, 84.
5.dates at which: Ibid.
6.respectively received: Ibid.
7.that the President: Ibid.
8.to inform the Senate: Ibid.
9.I arrived at the: Allen Culling Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison (Washington, D.C.: W.F. Roberts Company, 1914), 113.
10.our sides have been: Ibid., 116.
11.there are passages: Ibid.
12.So I mounted with: Ibid.
13.In a few minutes: Ibid.,128.
14.Mrs. Madison is a fine: Ibid., 113.
15.Her sisters, Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington: Ibid.
16.The President, on its: Washington Irving, Life and Letters of Washington Irving, vol. 1, Memorial ed., Pierre M. Irving ed. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883), 132.
17.I should only look: Ibid., 131.
18.Should I not: Ibid., 129.
19.of studying: Ibid.
20.Which, if I have any: Ibid.
21.Of this, however: Ibid.
22.But whatever I may: Ibid.
23.tied by the leg: Ibid., 139.
24.wickedly made the: Ibid.
25.stagger
under the trash: Ibid.
26.It was the most splendid: Ibid., 141.
27.The room was decorated: Ibid.
28.We are a nation: Skeen, John Armstrong, Jr., 120.
29.they behave: Ibid., 122.
30.The effect will be to: Ibid., 119.
31.pedestal waiting: Seale, The President’s House: a History, 14.
32.ought to be: “Evolution of the Capitol,” U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, www.visitthecapitol.gov.
33.Why should you: Skeen, John Armstrong, Jr., 158.
34.I speak to you: Ibid.
35.my constitution will not: Ibid.
36.sultry, fatiguing, dilatory: Ibid.
CHAPTER 6—TORPEDO
1.the boats of the: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 355.
2.This was no doubt: Ibid.
3.laudable: Ibid.
4.I think it extremely: Ibid.
5.unvaried examples: Ibid.
6.I have now closed: Ibid.
7.if the enterprise: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 391.
8.I watch the decline: Ibid., 392.
9.the Senate are informed: Annals of Congress, 13th Congress, 1st Session, June 7, 1813, Library of Congress, 85.
10.We are at present: Madison, The Writings of James Madison, 243.
11.whether England: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 550.
12.Mr. Madison reminded me: Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison, 136.
13.Here’s to they absent broadbrim: Ibid., 143.
14.And here’s to: Ibid.
15.She wears a crimson: Ibid., 141.
16.Some splendid trimmings: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
17.Oh! I wish: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 151.
18.There were many: “Tyro to the Editor, dateline Washington, December 20, 1813,” Democratic Press, December 24, 1813.
19.Everybody loves Mrs. Madison: Catherine Allgor, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006), 232.
20.That’s because Mrs. Madison: Ibid.
21.I would describe: Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison, 141.
22.but her demeanor is: Ibid.
23.I am by no means: Ibid.
24.the city is more: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
25.but this sad summer: Ibid.
26.The mornings are: Ibid.
27.Mr. M has received: Ibid.
28.I received one: Ibid.
29.there was now only: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 328.
30.he also added: Ibid.
31.and he assured me: Ibid.
CHAPTER 7—CHESAPEAKE FEVER
1.Before this: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 163.
2.I believe there: Ibid., 154.
3.The brave Lawrence: Washington Irving, “James Lawrence, Esq. New Brunswick,” Analectic Magazine, 1813, 41.
4.He passed from: Ibid., 10.
5.not merely to render Irving, Life and Letters of Washington Irving, 145.
6.Except in the: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 314.
7.We think not: Ibid.
8.increasing disposition: Ibid.
9.In the instance: Ibid.
10.The cases described: Ibid.
11.But is his appointment: Ibid.
12.his estate and private: Ibid., 315.
13.not an absence: Ibid.
14.If such be the: Ibid.
15.the kind and affections: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
16.I hope however: Ibid.
17.She was certain: Ibid.
18.she had written: Ibid.
19.When I attempted: Ibid.
20.I have been: Ibid.
21.Of all the situations: “Constitutional Convention,” James Madison’s Montpelier, http://www.montpelier.org/.
22.Having been lately: James Madison, “To George Washington, Apr. 17, 1787,” The Papers of James Madison, ed. William T. Hutchinson et al. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1962–77), http://presspubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch8s6.html.
23.irreconcilable: Ibid.
24.I have sought for: Ibid.
25.disinterested: Ibid.
26.I would propose: Ibid.
27.You give me a: “Constitutional Convention.”
28.the powers and duties: Annals of Congress, 13th Congress, 1st Session, June 14, 1813, Library of Congress, 85.
29.are so incompatible: Ibid.
30.at such time: Ibid., 87–88.
CHAPTER 8—SNUBBED BY DOLLEY
1.a bilious fever: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 511.
2.think of thy: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 66.
3.Mr. Madison has: Ibid., 560.
4.I went to the palace: Ibid., 561.
5.I think he will: Ibid.
6.perhaps never left: Ibid.
7.no pressure whatever: Ibid.
8.The thought of: Ibid.
9.I write to you: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
10.The anxiety of your mind: Ibid.
11.The dangerous sickness: Ibid.
12.Several times I: Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 395.
13.fixing a day: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 561.
14.our minds have: The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/.
15.it is well known: Ibid.
16.If men were angels: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 297.
17.Congress shall make: “Bill of Rights Transcript,” National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html.
18.no person religiously scrupulous: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 292.
19.the introduction of: The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress, June 17, 1813.
20.And by our gracious Redeemer: Ibid.
21.and most respectfully solicit: Ibid.
22.They are now angels: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 7.
23.from what I have: Christopher T. George, Terror on the Chesapeake (Shippensburg: White Mane Books, 2000), 42.
24.You will readily: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 296–97.
25.These politicians: Ibid.
26.Before we part: Ibid.
27.The only opposition: Ibid., 272.
28.I regard the war: Ibid.
29.The war cannot be: Ibid.
30.A regular army will be: Ibid.
31.I infer that the: Ibid.
32.and if England: Ibid.
33.Notwithstanding the: Ibid., 211.
34.The imbecility of: Ibid., 275.
35.I know that our political: Ibid., 278.
36.I am convinced that: Ibid.
37.Mr. Madison: Jane Hampton Cook, Battlefields and Blessings Iraq/Afghanistan (Chattanooga: God & Country Press, 2009), 476.
38.The other to consist of: Ibid.
39.The more lax: Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography, 210.
40.There are foreign: Ibid.
41.I am concerned: Ibid.
42.Whatever may be: Ibid.
CHAPTER 9—WASHED UP AT CRANEY
1.On the issue of: Madison, The Writings of James Madison, 236.
2.They have retained: Ibid., 236–37.
3.compelling them to: Ibid.
4.The British cabinet: Ibid., 245.
5.And now we: Ibid., 236–37.
6.what is meant when: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 187.
7.I have never allowed: Madison, The Writings of James Madison, 241.
8.be the greatest loser: Ibid.
9.The great road: Ibid.
10.If there be links: Ibid.
11.The sword was: Ibid., 238.
12.should the enemy: George, Terror on the Chesapeake, 42.
13.About daybreak the: Boston Daily Advertiser, June 30, 1
813.
14.The batteries were: Ibid.
15.fired their 18-pounders: David S. Heidler, and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997), 130.
16.Our officers, soldiers: Boston Daily Advertiser, June 30, 1813.
17.I was so unwell: Madison, Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 74.
18.I have received: Ibid., 75.
19.The letters of my: Ibid., 77.
20.Your charming letter: Ibid., 71.
21.It is not probable: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
22.For the waste of: Ibid.
23.I beg you my: Ibid.
24.The error committed: Ibid.
25.poor me—I am: Ibid.
CHAPTER 10—ATROCIOUS HAMPTON
1.unfortunate females: Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 225.
2.Congreve rockets led: Alexandria Gazette, June 29, 1813.
3.The gallantry: Dudley, The Naval War of 1812, 362.
4.as well steading: Ibid.
5.Our sod must be: Baltimore Patriot, June 30, 1813.
6.We copy from the: National Intelligencer, July 22, 1813.
7.It may be soon: Ibid.
8.Having just returned: Baltimore Patriot, July 23, 1813.
9.That the town and country: Ibid.
10.Several gentlemen informed: Ibid.
11.Why did you quit: Ibid.
12.revenge for the refusal: Ibid.
13.Her story was: National Intelligencer, July 22, 1813.
14.to do justice: Ibid.
15.electrify my countrymen: Ibid.
16.This woman was: Ibid., 3.
17.Her cries and: Ibid.
18.whence she was dragged: Ibid.
19.They had previously: Ibid.
20.They followed her: Baltimore Patriot, July 23, 1813.
21.Mr. Hope made off: National Intelligencer, July 22, 1813.
22.But the enemy are: Ibid.
23.Men of Virginia!: Ibid.
24.wherever he dares: Ibid.
25.and devote yourself: Ibid.
26.every horror was: Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, 225.
27.Armstrong said Daschkoff: King, The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, 320.
28.that he knew: Ibid.
29.Would to Heaven: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
30.You can form: Ibid.
31.They will find it: Ibid.
32.But I forget how: Ibid.
CHAPTER 11—DEAR DOLLEY
1.I have the happiness: Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition.
2.It has been three weeks: Ibid.
3.Rumor with her hundred: Ibid.
4.and most fervently: Ibid.