War Department proclamation, 1837.

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War Department proclamation, 1837.

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Two page proclamation dated War Department, September 13, 1837, and signed J.R. Poinsett, regarding the relief of inhabitants driven frm their homes during the war. "Persons who sell whiskey or keep gambling houses, or whose conduct is notoriously immoral, are not entitled to any support from the bounty of government, and are not to receive rations."

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. From the description of Letters, 1837-1839. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522812 U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institu...