. Book of the Royal blue . lost by our forces, fortywere from this body. Commodore Barney,after having two horses shot under him,was so badly wounded he could not beremoved from the field, but he afterwardsrecovered. Our demoralized forces werepursued by the enemy, who entered Wash-ington that evening. During the preparation for the battle,the President, the Attorney-General, theSecretaries of State and War, two membersof Congress and Francis Scott Key (whoa few days later wrote the Star SpangledBanner), came on to the field, and it isprobable that the presence of these digni-taries embarrasse
. Book of the Royal blue . lost by our forces, fortywere from this body. Commodore Barney,after having two horses shot under him,was so badly wounded he could not beremoved from the field, but he afterwardsrecovered. Our demoralized forces werepursued by the enemy, who entered Wash-ington that evening. During the preparation for the battle,the President, the Attorney-General, theSecretaries of State and War, two membersof Congress and Francis Scott Key (whoa few days later wrote the Star SpangledBanner), came on to the field, and it isprobable that the presence of these digni-taries embarrassed General Winder, theAmerican commander, and their early fiightcertainly contributed to the panic and con-fusion. The British burned a number of build-ings, including the White House, Capitol,and Patent Office, wantonly destroying thepublic records, and many books in theCongressional Library. Their action inburning these records and much privateproperty created great indignation, butGeneral Ross was fired at and his horse. THE OLD MILL. BLADENSBURG, AN OLD MARYLAND TOWN. 13 wounded as he a|)proached the city, andthis greatly angered him. On the ap-proach of the British Mrs. Madison cutfrom its frame the picture of Washingtonthat hung in the White House, and seizingthe original Declaration of Independence,crossed the river into Xirginia, and is saidto have been refused shelter at two houses, about two miles west of Washington, a mannamed Foxall owned a foundry and was en-gaged in casting cannon for the Americanarmy. A regiment of British infantrystarted through the woods which then stoodbetween the two cities with orders to de-stroy these works. Night had come on, astorm was threatening, and it was reported
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