thro'-losses not known yet. Dr T went up to Mr Threlkeld's -staid late in the Evening. Wednesday 7th. Dr. T published in the Nat1. Intelligencer a statement of his conduct while the Enemy were in the City. Dr T. & Dr Mease went over to Mr. Custis's.-Nothing new to day-many lives lost in the vain attempt to take the Alexa. fleet.—many poor fellows dying of sickness in consequence of fatigue and laying out of nights without tents-Not mercenary troops who made a trade of fighting but valuable & respectable citizens many promising young men of genteel families who never having been accustomed to any fatigue sink under the unprec[ed] ented hardships they have had to endure. We rode to George T. came back to tea. Thursday 8th: Warm.-Dr Maese came after breakfast.I had a long conversation with Mrs Cutts & Madison today They have listened to many misrepresentations & falsehoods concerning Dr T-& of course are not pleased with him—Mr Fairfax came to dinner.-We went to see the effect of the explosion of the well that had Gun powder put in it by our people to hide it as supposed.13-We burnt the buildings at the point to prevent the Enemy getting the Arms-which certainly might have been secured & they might have given the buildings a chance of being preserved.-The Enemy spiked a few of the cannon but left them generally standing on their carriages as they found them-they lost a great many men by this accidental explosion which has made a monstrous cavity at least feet diam".-The magazine of powder blew up by this explosion but all the powder was not destroyed.It is generally thought that the Navy Ya & the point both might easily have been defended, if preparation had been made in time. But they did not think they wou'd come.Friday 9th Dr T-went on his Mare to Dr. Duvalls-we went to the farm Saturday 10th: Returned in the afternoon Dr T-returned 13 This was at the arsenal of Greenleaf Point, now the site of the War College. about an hour before us-Nothing new, we now wait the approaching Session of Congress with some anxiety.14_ 14 Congress was called in special session by the president and met September 19, 1814, occupying the building at the northwest corner of 8th and E Sts. northwest, the only public structure the enemy had spared. This was done, as Mrs. Thornton states, on the plea of her husband, who as superintendent of the patent office interposed to save the record of the inventive genius of the Nation. According to the current talk, and as it proved expressing the sentiment of a number of the members, Congress would not remain in the city, hence the anxiety on the part of citizens referred to by Mrs. Thornton. OFFICERS. OFFICERS ELECTED AT THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING HELD JANUARY 18, 1916. President Vice-Presidents ALLEN C. CLARK. JOB BARNARD. Treasurer Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Curator Chronicler 1917 Managers classified 1918 according to expira-. tion of term of service. 1919 1920 { WILHELMUS B. BRYAN. MRS. MARY STEVENS BEALL. WILLIAM VAN ZANDT Cox. WILLIAM HENRY DENNIS. MRS. CHAS. W. RICHARDSON JOHN B. LARNER. JAMES DUDLEY MORGAN. * Declined. Board of Managers elected Cuno H. Rudolph to fill the vacancy. Declined. Board elected William F. Roberts to fill the vacancy. |