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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Autographs, Letters and Documents of Persons Famous in American History: Comprising the Extensive and Valuable Collection Formed by and the Property of John Heise, Esq., Of Syracuse, New York The writer was the author of the famous Newburg Letters which were issued anonymously and set forth the services and destitution of the soldiers, being intended to arouse Congress to an appreciation of the fact that they required instant relief. The letters created no end of excitement in Army circles, and it needed all the dispassionate argu ments of Washington to quell it. Armstrong later was Secretary of War under President Madison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.