Officers Suggested for Appointments

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Type

Autograph Draft Document Signed

Description

McHenry lists the candidates for appointments in the augmented army including those he considers the most intelligent and active officers in the American army.

Date

07/14/1798

Document number

1798071400001

Page start

1

Notable persons

James McHenry
Jonathan Clark
William Washington
Edward Rutledge
Pinckney
Ebenezer Stevens
Nicholas Fish
Matthew Clarkson
Benjamin Walker
Cummings
Joseph Bloomfield
Aaron Ogden
Francis Johnson
Francis Mentges
Thomas Robinson
William McPherson
William Alexander
Moore
William Jackson
Josiah C. Hall
Nathaniel Ramsay
Nicholas Rodgers
Levin Winder
Eccleston
Aguila Giles
William Heth
William Darke
Ball
Benjamin Temple
Richard C. Anderson
James Wood
Anthony W. White
David Cobb
Henry Jackson
Lewis Trescott
Caleb Gibbs
Andrew Peters
Hodijah Bayles
Jeremiah Olney
William Blodget
Jonathan S. Dexter
William Peck
Phillip P. Bradley
Elisha Sheldon
Benjamin Talmadge
Alexander Hamilton
Charles C. Pinckney
Henry Knox
Henry Lee
John Brooks
William S. Smith
John E. Howard
Edward Hand
Jonathan Dayton
Edward Carrington
James Craik
William Blodgett

Notable locations

New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut

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