John Armstrong Jr. Letter 26 March 1813
(Extract from Military Book VI, War Office, page 337.)
War Department
March 26, 1813
Lt Col Armistead
Norfolk
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 21 instant. You will go on with the line of Redoubts in the rear of Fort Norfolk. With regard to the new works at Craney Island, Old point Comfort and the mouth of the river leading to the Navy Yard, you will, before you enter upon these, make report of the plans on which you propose to work & of the estimate of the materials & their cost in the market, with which your you propose to construct them.
The National Archives - 1960
the original document is in
R. G. 107, Letters Sent,
Vol. 6, p.337.
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