Subject Files--War of 1812

Archive

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Subject Files--War of 1812

Entry/Object ID

1985.002.0183

Scope and Content

1 folder ; 11 3/4" x 9" Niles Weekly Register-Events of the War, no date Paragraph about the character of Cockburn Niles Weekly Register-Events of the War, no date about action at Kirby's windmill Niles Weekly Register of August and September, 1814 Letters between Vice-Admiral Cochrane and James Monroe Typescript on onionskin of a correction in the Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland of September 10, 1814. "Barney's flotilla consisted only of one gunboat and 13 barges ..." Typescript of an article in the Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland of Thursday, October 6, 1814. Title="Enemy in the Chesapeake" covering several occasions of British depredations on the Chesapeake, especially Leonardtown Niles Weekly Register of November 19, 1814 quoting a Bermuda paper about the death of a soldier Typescript of an article in the Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland of Saturday, December 10, 1814. Title="Brutality of the Enemy" extracts of a letter dated St. Inigoes ...November 1. A visit to the manor house of the mission is described, with the desecration of the chapel and theft of numerous items Niles Weekly Register of December 31, 1814 about the capture of a British tender by an oyster boat Typescript of an article in the Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland of Saturday, January 28, 1815. Letter to the editor about the return of the items taken from the chapel at St. Inigoes Niles Weekly Register Supplement to Vol. VII [1815] for p. 152-156 of the paper talking about various events and battles during June and August 2 sheets are missing Typescript on onionskin of an article in the Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, Maryland Supplement to Volume VII-1815 Title=Cockburn's Expeditions reprint of material in the London Gazette of October 1814 about Cockburn's activities on the Chesapeake, especially versus Captain Barney on the Patuxent, attack at Leonardtown, and other depredations Some of this material is also in the p. 152-156 bundle Niles Weekly Register of Thursday, October 27, 1815 about the character of Cockburn Copy of April 1965 copy of The Record, a publication of the Charles County Historical Society. The lead article is "Southern Maryland During the War of 1812" Draft of an article by Alfred F. Gough "Defenders Day--no Holiday in 1814" published in the Chronicles of September 1972 Letter of August 31, 1979 from Ashby Canter to Mr. Beitzell with information about the General Society of the War of 1812

Collection

Edwin Warfield Beitzell Collection

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1814 - 1972

Location

Container

Edwin Beitzell Collection, Box 2A

Shelf

Rack 09, Shelf 1

Rack

Rack 09

Wall

North wall

Room

Archives 2

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Barney, Joshua

Person or Organization

Cochrane, Alexander

Person or Organization

Cockburn, George

Person or Organization

Dixie, Alexander

Person or Organization

Gough, Alfred2

Person or Organization

Kilgour, John

Person or Organization

Monroe, James