[55]: Letter in Records AGO.
[56]: "A Bit of U.S. Mint History," pp. 45-50; and Chamberlain, pp. 588-592.
[57]: Letter in Records AGO.
[58]: Letter from Secretary of War to Irvine (Records AGO).
[59]: Letters in Records AGO.
[60]: Letters in Records AGO: Irvine to James Calhoun (Deputy Commissary General of Purchases, Baltimore), January 14, 1815; Irvine to General Scott, January 13, 1815; Irvine to George Armitage, July 10, 1815.
[61]: See McBarron, "The 18th U.S. Infantry," pp. 48-49.
[62]: See Johnson, vol. 1, p. 45, and vol. 2, p. 10.
[63]: See Johnson, vol. 2, specimen nos. 183, 184, 210-213.
[64]: Letter dated February 26, 1812, from Irvine to Secretary of War (Records AGO). In clothing returns for 1812 of light artillery companies stationed at Williamsville, N. Y., "caps and plates" are listed as being "on hand" (Records AGO).