Qualifications of Aides and Secretaries, Etc.
Document 1798Washington requests a personal secretary. Respecting aides to generals, he stresses that much more is expected of them than attending parades and delivering orders. They should possess the soul of a general and from a single idea given them convey his meaning in the clearest and fullest manner.
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Contemporary Copy of Letter Signed
Description
Washington requests a personal secretary. Respecting aides to generals, he stresses that much more is expected of them than attending parades and delivering orders. They should possess the soul of a general and from a single idea given them convey his meaning in the clearest and fullest manner.
Date
07/29/1798
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Recipient
Sent from
Mount Vernon
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Document number
1798072940001
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1
Notable persons
James McHenry
George Washington
Colonel Smith
Colonel Hamilton
Caton
Judge Chase
Notable locations
Washington
Mount Vernon
Alexandria
Notable items
brigadier
general officers
young men unacquainted with service and diffident
Quarter Master General
Adjutant General
field of conjecture
your silence on these interesting points
Gazettes
blind account in Baches
qualifications which the aids of the commander in chief ought to possess
commander of a separate army
experienced officers
men of judgement
men of business
my own services pay and emoluments
pay and forage allowance annexed to the office
applications which are made to me
civil and military
secure deposits
hands that may be able to separate the grain from the chaff
personal visits and written applications for office
my late appointment
rules and regulations
commissions, introductions, recommendations
common civility
leisure hours
arrangement and overhaul of my voluminous public papers