Army, Jefferson’s chaste reformation of, i. 238; peace establishment in 1801 three thousand men, organized in one regiment of artillery and two of infantry, 242, 261, 272, 301; Jefferson’s principle regarding the, iii. 14, 15; its condition in 1806, 334; popular antipathy to, 349, 350–354; increase of, to ten thousand men, in 1808, iv. 195, 198; debate on increase of, 212–218; establishment of 1808, one regiment of artillery, one regiment of light artillery, one regiment of dragoons, one regiment of riflemen, and seven regiments of infantry, 222–224; enlistments stopped in June, 1809, v. 85; its condition in 1809, 164, 169–171, 289; encampment of, at Terre aux Bœufs, 171–175; debate on reduction of, in 1810, 199–207; raised to thirty-five thousand men by Act of Jan. 11, 1812, vi. 147, 148, 151, 153; useless, 165; condition of, 289, 292; recruiting for, in May, 1812, 294; war establishment in 1812, corps of engineers, two regiments of light dragoons, one regiment of light artillery, three regiments of artillerists, one regiment of riflemen, and twenty-five regiments of infantry,--by law thirty-five thousand men, 295; enlistments in, 337, 390, 391, 401; difficulty of filling ranks of, 394; acts of Congress for filling ranks of, 435, 436; war establishment of 1813, corps of engineers, two regiments of light dragoons, one regiment of light artillery, three regiments of artillery, one regiment of riflemen, and forty-four regiments of infantry, rangers, and sea-fencibles,--by law fifty-eight thousand men, 449; vii. 148, 381; Monroe’s estimate of number of troops required in 1813, vii. 148; actual force, in February, 1813, nineteen thousand men, 148, 149, 380; mode of stating force of, in rank-and-file, 150; aggregate strength of, in February, June, and December, 1813, and January, 1814, 380, 381; Troup’s bill for filling ranks of, 381, 382; bounty and pay of, 382; appropriations for, in 1814, 384; organization of, in 1814, 384; condition of, in 1814, viii. 17; aggregate strength of, June and December, 1813, January, July, and September, 1814, 216; weakness of, in the field, 217; bounties for, paid in Massachusetts and Virginia, 235; Monroe recommends raising to one hundred thousand men by draft, 264, 265; failure in recruiting service for, 266; Congress unwilling to adopt efficacious measures for, 266, 267; Giles’s bill for filling, 268, 273, 280; “a mere handful of men,” 279; aggregate strength of, December, 1814, and Feb. 16, 1815, 281; allotment of, to military districts, 316, 317; peace establishment discussed, ix. 83–86;