J. G. Swift letters : Geneva, to Benson J. Lossing, Poughkeepsie, 1860 Feb. 6 and 10.

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J. G. Swift letters : Geneva, to Benson J. Lossing, Poughkeepsie, 1860 Feb. 6 and 10.

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Two letters to Lossing describing the coastal defenses of the United States during the War of 1812.

(0.1 linear ft.).

Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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Historian, author. From the description of Transcriptions of documents, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583022 Wood engraver, author, editor. From the description of Benson J. Lossing papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576931 From the description of Papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519295 Benson John Lossing, editor, illustrator, and historian born in New York. Edited the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, Poughk...

Swift, J. G. (Joseph Gardner), 1783-1865

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Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865) was a civil engineer and officer in the U.S. Army. He was one of two students of the first graduating class in 1802 of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. By the age of twenty-eight he was a colonel and Chief Engineer of the Army. His projects included the completion of Fort Clinton (New York City) and during the War of 1812 the fortifications of western Long Island harbors and New York City. He resigned his commission in 1818 and served as Surveyor of the P...