Head Quarters Camp 4 Miles below Orleans 7:th M. District } 13.th Jan: 1815. Once more I feel it my duty to apprise you that the arms we have been so long expecting & of which we stand so much in need, have not yet arrived. Had they been with us in the morning of the 8th. I think I should have been able to have rendered you an account with which you would have been greatly pleased. The want of them continues to expose me to great hazard. How unfortunate it is, that our preparations are always so far behind the events which make them necessary! Allow me to say Sir that so far as regards the supplies of the army, the agents whom government ha[struck: ve][inserted: s] employed, have, in a great many instances, most egregiously deceived them; & that in making those appointments, above all others, the utmost circumspection should be used - I would not make this statement, if I did not feel myself urged to it by the best of motives With great respect I have the honor to be very respectfully yr &c. Andrew Jackson [docket] Camp 4 miles below New Orleans 13th January 1815 Genl Jackson Advice that the arms not yet arrived - had they been there the 8th would have given a better measurement of the battle