This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Poinsett Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4242.3 Message Board Post: MICROFILM SUPPLEMENT TO "Iowa Territorial Papers". M - 325. Roll 21.-- Washington, April 23, 1840. To Hon. J. P. Poinsett, Secretary of War. "....The Board of officers to whom so much of the resolution of the Senate of the United States of 2 March 1839, as relates to the military defences of the country were committed, have the honor to submit the following reports, namely -- ARSENALS: ".....4th Report on the armories, arsenals, magazines, and founderies, either constructed or deemed necessary: -- St. Louis arsenal is a large establishment of the 2d class, but, with very little expense, can be raised to the 1st class, with ther subsidiary depot at Liberty, on the Missouri, it will supply the posts on that river, the western border of the State, the posts on the Des Moines, and the Upper Mississippi...." ARMORIES:--"The two national armories at Springfiled, Massachusetts and Harper's Ferry, Virginia, are the only public establishments for the manufacture of small arms...." N.B.: The Council Bluffs road must have seen many supplies moving up it, to Fort Croghan. This road passed through Fremont county.--W.F.