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Letter to Major George Armistead
September 14, 1814
Peggy Hughes Moore
This letter to Fort McHenry's commander, George Major George Armistead, is from his wife Louisa's sister, Peggy Moore. She describes the anguish and worry she and her husband, Col. Samuel Moore, had felt as they heard "those vile bombs directly at you," which had only ceased a few hours earlier. Col. Moore himself had been injured at the Battle of North Point on September 12. The upside down passage of the letter is a postscript in which he suggests "to stop the channel at Hawkins Point to prevent these vessels coming up again." |