Name/Title
Battle of Plattsburgh LetterEntry/Object ID
2016.19.98Tags
Military, War of 1812, 1810sDescription
Undated and unsigned letter found in the Horace Stevens Collection. Letter discusses the Battle of Plattsburgh that happened during the War of 1812 in 1814.Transcription
It will be perceived by your records that our [?]
for warrants dragged along a year or more for the
want of record evidence [words crossed out]
of our being at Battle of Plattsburgh on which we
mainly relied for obtaining warrants and which we
were unable to furnish from the fact that there was none
to be found of the service of Vermont volunteers, our
company, were among the first to cross the lake and
more time to organize those than that came later + we
do not now remember of even answering to a roll call or
parading in a regiment. From the day after our arrival
at Plattsburgh volunteers came [?] into our camp by
hundreds some with and many without arms and the
main object of officers seemed to be
[?] [?] them supplied with [?] [?] and
[?]
its to enlistment and discharge nothing of the unit took
place with ourselves, we volunteered on the spur of the [?]
and went to Plattsburgh and when the fun was over went
home with the same [?] and without [?]. During
the three or four days previous to the General Battle of a body of
2500 or three thousand men had crossed over from Vermont
with their shot guns and many without arms of any kind. The
first and main objects seemed to be to supply the men with
efficient arms and ammunition which was freely furnished
by General Mc[?] and such was the continuous
influx of arrivals of hundred upon hundreds daily the whole
time of those in command employed in receiving and providing
+ hem
[?] arms leaving little time for drill as anyone [?]
enlistment or enrollment and discharge. To the best
knowledge nothing of the kind took place among the
Vermont volteers. Men volunteered under the spur +
occasions and arriving at Plattsburgh the first thing
to claim the attention of officers and men was to [?]
arms + ammunition which was [?] furnished by Gen Mc[?]
great was the continuous inflex of hundreds
to the General Battle that our column was said to number
twenty five hundred to three thousand men. There
[?] time for any effective organizative or enrollment
from the manner in which themselves where it was [?]
the enemy had returned we [?] there was no discharge
of course no [?] and hence no record evidenceLocation
Location
Container
Horace Stevens Collection Box 1Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterDate
January 10, 2025Location
Container
Horace Stevens Collection Box 2Room
ArchivesBuilding
Morgan History CenterNotes
Folder 1Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Stevens, HoraceResearch Notes
Research Type
Needs RescannedNotes
Transcription will need double checked due to it being cut off in scan.