[85]: Letters from Irvine in Records AGO: To Colonel Bogardus (Commanding Officer, 41st Infantry), February 16, 1814; to James Calhoun, January 14, 1815; and to General Scott, January 31, 1815.
[86]: Letter to the Purveyor of Public Supplies in 1808.
[87]: Letters from Irvine in Records AGO: To Colonel Bogardus, February 16, 1814; to James Calhoun, January 14, 1815.
[88]: Detailed descriptions of this sword are given by Harold L. Peterson, pp. 193-194, and Belote, pp. 30-31.
[89]: Mr. Michael Arpad, well known and highly regarded silversmith, of Washington, D.C., has called this specimen "an exquisite piece of work by a master craftsman."
[90]: General Regulations for the Army, pp. 154-162.
[91]: General Regulations for the Army of the United States, p. 222.
[92]: Regulations for the Government of the Ordnance Department, p. 64; and Harold L. Peterson, pp. 42-43.
[93]: See Patterson, p. 8.
[94]: General Order No. 38, Headquarters of the Army, May 2, 1833 (photostatic copy in files of the division of military history, Smithsonian Institution).