by Steve Vogel
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———. Reply to Kosciusko [sic] Armstrong’s Assault Upon Col. McKenney’s Narrative of the Causes That Led to General Armstrong’s Resignation of the Office of Secretary of War in 1814. New York: William H. Graham, 1847.
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ARTICLES
(The list includes only those cited multiple times in the text; all others are listed in the notes.)
Arnold, James Riehl. “The Battle of Bladensburg.” RCHS, 1937.
[Barrett, Robert J.]. “Naval Recollections of the Late American War,” part 1. USJ, April 1841.
Brumbaugh, Thomas B., ed. “A Letter of Dr. William Thornton to Colonel William Thornton.” MdHM, Mar. 1978.
Bushong, William B. “Ruin and Regeneration.” White House History, Fall 1998.
Callahan, Eleanor. “Ear-Witness to History: James McConkey and the Star Spangled Banner.” Journal of Erie Studies, 1980.
Cassell, Frank A. “A Response to Crisis: Baltimore in 1814.” MdHM, 1971.
————. “Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812.” Journal of Negro History, April 1972.
Clark, Allen C. “Joseph Gales, Junior, Editor and Mayor.” RCHS, 1920.
Coles, Harry L. “1814: A Dark Hour Before the Dawn.” MdHM, 1971.
Colston, Frederick M. “The Battle of North Point.” MdHM, 1907.
Cutts, J. Madison. “Dolley Madison.” RCHS, 1900.
Dietz, Anthony G. “The Use of Cartel Vessels During the War of 1812.” American Neptune, July 1968.
Dorsey, Anna H. “Origin of the Star-Spangled Banner.” The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, 1861.
Dunham, Chester G. “Christopher Hughes, Jr. at Ghent, 1814.” MdHM, Fall 1971.
Engelman, Fred L. “The Peace of Christmas Eve.” American Heritage, December 1960.
Ewell, James. “Unwelcome Visitors to Early Washington.” RCHS, 1895.
Fabel, Robin F. A. “The Laws of War in the 1812 Conflict.” Journal of American Studies, August 1980.
Gardner, William. “To the Editor of the Federal Republican.” Hartford Courant, September 17, 1814.
George, Christopher T. “The Family Papers of Maj. Gen. Robert Ross, the Diary of Col. Arthur Brooke, and the British Attacks of Washington and Baltimore of 1814.” MdHM, Fall 1993.
———. “Mirage of Freedom: African Americans in the War of 1812.” MdHM, Winter 1996.
Goldsborough, Robert H. “Report of the Battle of Baltimore.” MdHM, September 1945.
Hadel, Albert J. “The Battle of Bladensburg.” MdHM, 1906.
Hildt, John C. “Letters Relating to the Capture of Washington.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1907.
Hockensmith, Bryan. “James Monroe,” Army History, Summer 2008.
Hunter, Mary. “The Burning of Washington, D.C.” New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, 1924.
King, Horatio. “The Battle of Bladensburg.” Magazine of American History, July–December 1885.
Lingel, Robert, ed. “The Manuscript Autobiography of Gordon Gallie Macdonald.” New York Public Library Bulletin, March 1930.
Magruder, Caleb Clarke, Jr. “Dr. William Beanes, the Incidental Cause of the Authorship of the Star-Spangled Banner.” RCHS, 1919.
Maguire, W. A. “Major General Ross and the Burning of Washington.” Irish Sword, Winter 1980.
McLane, Allen. “Col. McLane’s Visit to Washington, 1814.” Bulletin of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1845.
Meyer, Sam. “Religion, Patriotism and Poetry in the Life of Francis Scott Key.” MdHS, 1989.
Mullaly, Franklin R. “The Battle of Baltimore.” MdHM, March 1959.
———. “A Forgotten Letter of Francis Scott Key.” MdHM, Dec. 1960.
Ockerbloom, John N. “The Discovery of a U.S. Marine Officer’s Account of Life, Honor, and the Battle of Bladensburg, Washington and Maryland, 1814,” Military Collector & Historian, Winter 2009.
Ortmann, Otto. “Notes on ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’ ” Peabody Bulletin, May 1939.
Paullin, Charles Oscar. “Services of Commodore John Rodgers in the War of 1812.” Proceedings, 1909.
Pettengill, George E. “The Octagon and the War of 1812.” AIA Journal, February 1965.
Piper, James. “Defense of Baltimore, 1814.” MdHM, December 1912.
Poore, Benjamin Perley. “Biographical Notice of John S. Skinner.” The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, July 1854.
“Recollections of the Expedition to the Chesapeake, and Against New Orleans, in the Years 1814–15. By an old Sub,” part 2. USJ, May 1840.
Robinson, Ralph J. “Controversy over the Command at Baltimore in the War of 1812.” MdHM, 1944.
———. “The Men with Key: New Facts in the National Anthem Story.” Baltimore, September 1956.
Rowley, Peter, ed. “Captain Robert Rowley Helps to Burn Washington, D.C., Part 1.” MdHM, Fall 1987.
———. “Captain Rowley Visits Maryland; Part II of a Series.” MdHM, Fall 1988.
Seale, William. “The White House Before the Fire.” White House History, Fall 1998.
Sheads, Scott S. “HM Bomb Ship Terror and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry.” MdHM, Fall, 2008.
———. “Joseph H
opper Nicholson: Citizen-Soldier of Maryland.” MdHM, Summer 2003.
———. “ ‘Yankee Doodle Played’: A Letter from Baltimore, 1814.” MdHM, Winter 1981.
[Sheldon, Daniel]. “An Unpublished Letter, August 26, 1814: The Burning of Washington.” Magazine of American History, 1892.
Shippen, Rebecca Lloyd. “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1901.
Skinner, J. S. “Incidents of the War of 1812: From the Baltimore Patriot [23 May 1849].” MdHM, December 1937.
Thornton, Anna. “Diary of Mrs. William Thornton. Capture of Washington by the British.” W. B. Bryan, ed. RCHS, 1916.
Weiss, John McNish. “The Corps of Colonial Marines: Black Freedom Fighters of the War of 1812.” http://www.mcnishandweiss.co.uk/history/colonialmarines.html (accessed September 15, 2009).
Weller, M. I. “The Life of Commodore Joshua Barney.” RCHS, 1911.
Williams, Glenn F. “The Bladensburg Races.” MHQ, Autumn 1999.
———. “The Rock of North Point.” The Todd House. Friends of Todd’s Inheritance, 2001.
Woehrmann, Paul. “National Response to the Sack of Washington.” MdHM, Fall 1971.
DOCUMENTS, REPORTS, AND MISCELLANY
American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. Class V. Military Affairs. Vol. 1. No. 137. “Capture of the City of Washington.” Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1832.
Brannan, John, ed. Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States During the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14, & 15. Washington, D.C.: Way & Gideon, 1823.
“Dolley Madison” and “James Madison.” James Madison’s Montpelier, n.d.
Dudley, William S., and Michael J. Crawford, et al., eds. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Vols. 2 and 3. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1992, 2002.
Flournoy, H. W., ed. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts. Vol. 10. 1892; reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint, 1968.
[Hall, John E., ed.]. Report of the Trial of John Hodges, Esq. on a Charge of High Treason. Tried in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Maryland District, at the May Term, 1815. [Baltimore: n.p., 1815?], Darnall’s Chance Manuscript Collection, Upper Marlboro, Md.