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Rules and Regulations for the Government of a Company of Juvenile Volunteers, Washington College (RG 69), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
This item was originally housed in the former W&L Miscellaneous Archives Collection.
This item was written by Washington College students in response to events that eventually lead to the War of 1812. It begins, "Preamble. At this eventfull [sic] crisis of our affairs when other nations are deluging each others fair field with blood and slaughter. We have no longer a right to rely on the God of heaven to avert from us three evils which from the very nature of things and the general constitution and nature of man they are all indiscrimination [?] subjects." There are 10 articles described in the document followed by the names of the officers and soldiers. There is a post script underneath the names that states, "The above company (the "Washington Juvenile Volunteers") paraded July 4, 1811 completely equiped [sic], & rec'd the praise of a large concourse of people, after having paraded one of the members (Gustavus A. Jones) delivered an oration in the Court House of Lexington, which was universally admired by all that could crowd to the C. House to hear it." The back of the last page has a list of expenditures that have been crossed out and appear unrelated to the rest of the document.