Rare archive of approximately 40 U.S. Army manuscript documents and letters principally issued in Buffalo, NY during the period of the Canada Rebellions (1838-1840). Archive includes large muster rolls listing the names and ranks of the soldiers assigned to the Buffalo Barracks in the center of Buffalo, NY, including Lt. E.W. Morgan, Ass’t Commissary of Subsistence, 2nd Artillery at Buffalo NY. The Buffalo Barracks was also referred to as the Poinsett Barracks, named for Joel Robert Poinsett, who was a visitor to Buffalo during the time of uncertainty with Britain and Canada as President Martin Van Buren’s secretary of war. The site of the barracks is today the Wilcox Mansion, where President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in (September 14, 1901). Also included is an exceptionally rare Richmond publication entitled “Interesting Correspondence” concerning Secretary Poinsett’s plan to reorganize the militia; the document appears to have been reprinted from the Richmond Enquirer of Friday, June 12, 1840, v. 37, no. 10, p. [2], and was originally published in the Richmond Enquirer at the request of the “Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Virginia.” Also includes a 19tth century engraving, “City Of Buffalo,” with a clear image of the main house on Delaware Avenue (now known as the Wilcox Mansion, were TR was sworn in in 1901).
