BIB_ID
107480
Accession number
MA 22374
Creator
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, sender.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1848 January 8.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.2 x 20.3 cm
Notes
From page 8 of James Buchanan album.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot attend Tammany Hall ball on the anniversary of battle of New Orleans; arguing that a large standing army is not required, using the Battle of New Orleans and the recent Mexican-American war as evidence, that citizen soldiers make the United States "invincible."
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