Note 824 — Chapter XIV · WAR AND THE PLAGUE
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Drennan Papers, Fort Dearborn post returns. Six companies of artillery from Fortress Monroe left New York June 26, and on June 30 were at Clyde in that state. Company E, Fourth Artillery, started from Fort McHenry, June 18. The route followed by the seaboard companies was by way of New York City to Buffalo and thence by vessel around the lakes.
[825] Letter of Captain A. Walker, October 30, 1860, in Chicago Weekly Democrat, March 23, 1861.
[826] For an account of Scott's expedition and the cholera outbreak see Stevens, op. cit., chap, xxxvi; Scott's own narrative is given in his Memoirs, I, chap, xviii; additional material occurs in Wentworth, Early Chicago, passim; Niles' Register, Vols. XLII and XLIII, passim; the New York Mercury for 1832, passim.
[827] Letter of Captain A. Walker in Chicago Weekly Democrat, March 23, 1861; letter from an officer on the Henry Clay, in New York Mercury, July 18, 1832.