Relative Qualifications of Major Generals, Etc.
Document 1798Presents the case for his superior qualifications in relation to General Pinckney and warns Washington of the insufficiency of McHenry in the post of Secretary of War.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Presents the case for his superior qualifications in relation to General Pinckney and warns Washington of the insufficiency of McHenry in the post of Secretary of War.
Date
07/29/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philiadelphia/ New York
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798072990001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Washington to Hamilton, 08/09/1798. This letter was started at Philadelphia and finished at New York.
Notable persons
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
General [Henry] Knox
[Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney
Federal men
members of Congress
[James] McHenry
Secretary of War
President United States
Notable locations
Mount Vernon
Philadelphia
New York
Notable items
relative rank of the Major Generals
great majority of leading federal men
command of the army
second in command
self-love
public interests
complaint
tactics
close of the War
Regiments of Artillery
claim of superiority
military service
civil services
impartiality
impartial decision
color of truth
ambition
organization of the Army
recruiting service
vanity
military supplies
cannon
arms