Reply to Kosciusko Armstongs Assault Upon Col Mckenneys Narrative of the Caus
Reply to Kosciusko Armstongs Assault Upon Col Mckenneys Narrative of the Caus
Thomas Loraine Mckenney
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'''' — I was at that time Adjutant of the first Legion of the Militia of the District of Columbia, and acted in that capacity to a de- tachment of Volunteer companies in service under the command of Col. (now General) Thompson of Washington, at Piscataway, in the summer of 1813, when the British shipping were in the Cheasapeake. It was then my intercourse with General Armstrong ^^ commenced, ''^ he beinof at Fort Washino-ton on the Potomac. (See General Thompson's _, letter entire m Appendix ma...rked jg. ) I was afterwards, by invitation, one of the aides of Major General John P. Vanness. My interviews as his staff officer with General Arm- strong were then of almost constant occurrancc. Kosciusko Armstrong says — " He does not tell us, how it became his peculiar duty to k 14 report the arrival of troops, or to procure arms for men ^j:^^ not belong- ing to the Brigade to which he was attached! I am, therefore, says this profound gentleman, at liberty to suppose, that, as officers of the re- gular army were on the spot whose business it really was to attend to the wants of the soldiery, Mr.
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