Return of Officers Appointed to Augment the Army
Document 1800Return of the Officers who have been appointed under the act, entitled "An act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes" designating such officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting, resigned their commissions, died, etc.
Return of the Officers who have been appointed under the Act intitled “An Act to augment the Army of the United States for other purposes” designating such Officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting resigned their Commissions, died &c.
Lieut. General
George Washington, dead
Major Generals
Alexander Hamilton, Inspector General
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Henry Knox, declined
Brigadier Generals
John Brookes, declined; William Washington
Jonathan Dayton, declined; William North, Adjutant General
Cavalry
John Watts, Lieut Colonel Commandant
Majors
Solomon Van Renselan; John Taylor, declined
Captains
Richard Willing, William Spencers
Benjamin Williamson, Charles T Mercer, declined
Laurence Lewis, declined; James Burn
John B. Armistead, James N. Ball
First Lieutenants
Robert Gray; Lawrence Washington
John Wallback; Charles F. Mercer, declined
George Washington Craik; Richard Tilghman
Second Lieutenants
William C Rogers; Carter B. Fontaine
Alexander McComb Junior; Richard Cook, resigned
Charles Tutt, +Archibald Lee
George W. F. Custis
Fifth Regiment of Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Commandants
- John Smith Majors
- James Armstrong; + Henry M. Rutledge Captains William Dangerfield; + William Simons, declined Fleming Wooldridge; + Benjamin Fossin Trapier
- John Kershaw; + Noah Kelsey
- James Hartley; + Zechariah Nettles
- Paul Thompson; + John Mitchell
- Benjamin Easely First Lieutenants John Jameson; + Peter Williamson Charles Kilgore; + Stanmore Butler
- John Brown; + George Clayton
- Charles Boyle; + William W Trapier
- William Taylor; + Pierre Gaillard, declined
- Josias Heyward Second Lieutenants Willis Morgan; + Johnson Wellborn Elijah Johnson; + Edward Croft, declined
- Samuel Taylor, declined; + William Darkey
- Thomas Osborne Junr; + Francis Rogers
- John Parker, Son of William, declined; + Charles Jones Jenkins
- Charles Codnor Ash Sixth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant
- James Read Majors
- Alexander D Moore; + William Brickell Captains William P. Anderson, resigned; William Hall
- James Taylor; + John Williams
- William Dickson; + John Nicholas
- Eli Gaither; + Samuel Graves Barron
- Edmund Smithwick; + Maurice Moore First Lieutenants Lewis Tiner; + Joseph Alexander, declined
- Robert Troy, declined; + Carleton Walker
- James Mackay; + Edward Jones
- George W Davidson, declined; + Hugh Neuman, declined
- McKenney Long; + William Martin, declined
- Benjamin Smith Second Lieutenants Edmund P Gaines; + John Carroway
- David T W Cook; + Abner Pasteur
- Marcus Sharpe; + Benjamin Forsyth
- James Morris; + Hugh Montgomery, not heard from
- John Wilkinson; + Alexander Hunter Surgeon
- Roger Cutler Seventh Regiment Lieut Colonel Commandant William Bentley Robert Beale; James Baytop Captains Daniel Ball, resigned; William Campbell Edmund Clark; Thomas Greene John Davidson; Robert King Archibald C. Randolph; James Caldwell Bartholomew Dandridge, declined; + William K. Blues Thomas Turner, declined First Lieutenant Van Bennet; Addison Armistead John Brahan; Samuel J Winston Robert Carrington, declined; Calvin Morgan Brewer Godwin, resigned; + John Heiskell Felix Wilton; + Jesse Dold Jesse Ewell Junr; + Horatio Stark Joseph Grigsby; + Marquis Combs Robert Temple, declined; + George Armistead Second Lieutenants John Heiskell promoted during recess; Andrew M Lusk Jesse Dold promoted during recess; James Brown Horatio Stark promoted during recess; + William Saunders Marquis Combs promoted during recess; + John Crump, declined George Armistead promoted during recess; + Bartlett Anderson William Potts; + Francis W Cook Peter Lambkin; + Philip Roots Alexander Henderson, declined; + John F Powell William Deane, declined; + Jacob Call Surgeon
- Francis H. Peyton Surgeons Mates
- Thaddeus Capron; + James W. Wallace, resigned Eighth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Thomas Parker Majors Simon Morgan, declined; + Lawrence Butler; William Campbell Captains Presley Thornton; Garnet Peyton Robert Gregg; Daniel C Lane Henry Piercy; Philip Lightfoot George S. Washington; Edmund Taylor Richard Chinns; Nathaniel Henry First Lieutenants Francis Foushee, resigned; John G Brown James Duncanson; John Williams Lemuel Bent; Thomas Jameson Robert Gustin; John Campbell George Tate; + James Tutt Charles J Love; + Simon Owens Second Lieutenants James Tutt promoted during recess; Willis Wells, declined Simon Owens promoted during recess; Hugh McCallister Reuben Thornton, declined; John Crane Junr George W Humphries; + John Meredith Obadiah Clifford; + John Stephens Strother Settle; + Robert Bell John C Williams; + Uriah Blue Charles Shackleford; + Richard Taylor John T. Fitzhugh; + Robert Little Surgeon
- Edward Conrad Surgeons Mate
- Thomas Tiplett, resigned; + Samuel M Griffith Ninth Regiment of Infantry Lieut Colonel Commandant Josias C Hall Majors David Hopkins; William D Beall Captains John C Beatty, declined; William Nicholson Thomas Beatty; Jacob Norris Lloyd Beall; Valentine Brothers Gerard Briscoe; John W Hacket Rezin Davidge; Jonathan Hodgson Bradley Beans, declined; + Richard Earle Isaac Spencer First Lieutenants William Elliott; Henry C Neale Edward A Howard, declined; Aquila Beale Richard W. West, declines; William Savin John B Barnes; Charles Clement Ninian Pinckney; + John Thompson Levi Alexander; + Robert Gover Matthew Tilghman Second Lieutenants Alexander Cooper; Levi G Ford John Brangle, declined; Daniel Hughes Enos Noland; John Adlum Thomas Dent; Edward Ford Levi Hillary; + George Peter John Warren, declined; + Joseph Bentley William Swan; + Benjamin Nowland Surgeon
- Robert Geddes Surgeons Mates
- Charles H Winder, declined; + William Beatty, declined
- Anderson Warfield; + Charles A Beatty
- Dardon Brown Tenth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Thomas L Moore Majors William Henderson; George Stephenson Captains Joseph McKinney; William Graham James Blaine; David Duncan Andrew Johnson; Benjamin Gibbs Matthew Henry; James Ashman William R. Atlee, declined; + Robert Westcott Hugh Brady First Lieutenants John Sharp, dead; Thomas Swearingen Samuel B. McGaw; Cromwell Peirce Henry G. Slough; Henry Westcott, declined Samuel Fulton, declined; + Alexander McNair Josiah McElwaine, declined; + David Irving James P. Nelson, declined; + Paul Weitzell Benjamin Wallace; + David Offley Robert Lawrence; + Samuel R Franklin Nelson Wade; + William Morrow Second Lieutenants William Morrow promoted during recess; John Smith George Hamill; Robert Chambers Archibald Davis, resigned; Alexander McNair, declined John A Douglas; Thomas Lee Herman Witner, declined; + John Hay Hough K Potts; + Robert George Barde John S. Porter, declined; + Joseph Knox Surgeon
- Henry Hall, declined; + William Hurst Surgeons Mates
- George Wilson; + James Irvine Eleventh Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Aaron Ogden Majors William Shute; John Adlum Captains Robert Hunt, resigned; Samuel Bowman Charles Marles; Peter Faulkner Job Stockton; Walter K Cole, resigned Denise Foreman; James Read Almarine Brookes; + Samuel Erwins Samuel White First Lieutenants Samuel Erwin promoted during recess; William Carson Thomas Reading Junr, resigned; Lewis Howard Robert C Thompson; James Battel Samuel C Voorhes; + John Caldwell Walter K Cole, declined; + Samuel Owen Smith, declined George M Ogden; + Charles B Green John G MacWhorter; + William J Anderson William Potter; + Thomas Bullman Henry Betz, declined; + Henry Drake Second Lieutenants William Piatt; John Milroy Charles Read, resigned; Benjamin Worrell Thomas Bullman promoted during recess; John Montgomery Henry Drake promoted during recess; Jabez Caldwell Hethcote Johnson; + Thomas Y. How James Rhea; + Joseph Vancleve James Clayton Junr, declined; + Lawrence Mulford Surgeons
- John Chetwood Junr Surgeons Mates
- John Howell; + John C Wynans Twelfth Regiment of Infantry Lieut Colonel Commandant William S. Smith Majors William Willcocks; Christopher Hutton, declined; + Dowe J Fondy Captains Dowe J Fondy promoted during recess; Adrian Kissam, resigned Philip Church; John W Patterson, resigned James Bennet; Justus B Smith, not heard from George W Kirkland; Jeremiah Landon Philip Cortland; Andrew White First Lieutenants Philip S. Schuyler; James Smith Elhanan W Wheeler; Richard Baldwin, resigned Moses Forster; + William Cocks Thomas Thompson; + William Cumming David Jones, declined; + Joseph C. Cooper Robert Le Roy Livingston; + Thomas H. Williams Henry W Ludlow; + Samuel Hoffman, dismissed Nathaniel Paulding, resigned Second Lieutenants William Cocks promoted in recess; George F. Harrison, declined William Cumming promoted in recess; + Israel Loring Joseph C Cooper promoted in recess; + Joseph Herkeimer Thomas H Williams promoted in recess; + Jacob Mancius Samuel Hoffman promoted in recess; + Nathaniel Smith John Duer; + Cornelius Kipp William W Wands; + Tobias V Cuyler, resigned Prosper Brown, dead; + Walter B Vrooman Jacob le Ten Eyck Surgeon
- Samuel Finley, resigned Surgeons Mates
- John H. Douglas; + Samuel Davis Thirteenth Regiment of Infanty Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Timothy Taylor Majors John Ripley; Jabez Huntington, resigned Captains John Benjamin; Jonathan Root John Meigs; John Bulford Elihu Sandford; Asa Copeland Stephen Ranney; William Young Junr Samuel Blakeslee; Coleby Chew, declined First Lieutenants Samuel Waugh; William W Cheney Lemuel Harrison; Ludowick Gallup Bennet Bronson; John Eels Reuben Hurd; Waters Clark Trueman Mosely; + Nathaniel Ruggles John Knox; + John Beers Second Lieutenants Salmon Clark; Peter Richards, declined Peter N Brinsmade; Robert Hossmer,[undecipherable] Trueman Hinman; Solomon Allen Walter Smith; + Austin Ledyard, declined Joseph A Wells, declined; + Nathaniel Noyes James Gordon Junr; + Fanning Tracey Ebenezer Learned, declined; + Abijah Fenn, suspended & resigned Surgeon
- Joseph Trowbridge Surgeons Mates
- Timothy Pierce; + John Orton Junr; + John Spalding, declined Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenants Col Commandant Nathan Rice Majors John Walker; Isaac Winslow Captains William Jones, declined; John Burbeck, declined Erasmus Babbet Junr; Simeon Draper Ephraim Emmery; Phineas Ashman John Tolman; Joseph Peirce Junr, declined Solomon Phelps; Arthur Lithgow, declined Ebenezer Thatcher, declined; + Samuel Mackay Thomas Chandler, resigned; + John Hastings Nathaniel Thwing First Lieutenants James Church; John Wheelwright Nathanial Soley, declined; Isaac Rand Junr Jacob Allen; Benjamin Beale Junr, declined William A Baron, declined; + Henry Sargent Robert Duncan Junr; + Francis Barker Phineas Ashman, declined; + William Gardner Alpheus Cheney; + Rufus Childs Samuel Flagg Junr, resigned Second Lieutenants Thomas Heald, declined; William Leverett Moses M Bates, declined; John Roulstone Charles Hunt; Thomas Durant James Gardner; Samuel W Church, resigned Marshall Spring, resigned; + Peyton Gay Daniel Hastings; + Thomas Hale Duncan Ingraham, resigned; + Charles Leonard, declined Surgeon
- Charles Blake Surgeon’s Mates
- Luther Stearns, declined; + Josiah Dwight, declined Fifteenth Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Richard Hunnewell Majors John Rowe; William Jones Captains James Brown; William Heywood Nathaniel Balch Jr; Caleb Aspinwall Hall Tufts; Stephen Peabody John Pynchon; Thomas Philips, declined John Blake; + Eli Forbes Samuel Jordan First Lieutenants Charles Cutler; Joseph Lee, declined William Sevan; David C D Forrest Samuel P Fay; Charles P Phelps, declined Eleazar Williams, declined; Edmund Soper Nathaniel Kidder; + Thomas Stevens Thomas Bowman, declined; + Augustus Hunt Ebenezer Bradish Jr; + Daniel Morse, declined John Shepherd, declined Second Lieutenants Abijah Harrington; Willard Fales Jonathan Nichol; Warren Hall, declined Daniel Bell; James D Wheaton John Page Junr; Seth Bannister David Fales; + Nathan Parks Franklin Tinkham Surgeon
- Oliver Mann Surgeons Mates
- Jonathan White; + Ebenezer Lawrence Sixteenth Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Rufus Graves Majors
- Timothy Darling, resigned; + Cornelius Lynde
Captains
Josiah Dunham; John Rogers, declined
Nathaniel Greene; George Tillinghast
Robert Parker; Abraham R Ellery
Henry Tilton; Jonathan Andrews
William Woodward; George Woodward
Israel Elliott Trask
First Lieutenants
Francis Gardner, declined; Thomas Brindley
Daniel M Durell; Daniel Bissell
Abel Hutchins, declined; Isaac Putnam
Sylvester G Whipple; + Israel W Kelly
Ephraim Whitney, declined; + Thaddeus Kendall
Whipple Lovett; + Marmaduke Wait
Robert Overing
Second Lieutenants
Arthur Rogers, declined; Ozeas Danforth
Moses Sweet; William E Green, declined
Israel Bartlett; Christopher Whipple
Samuel Parker; John W Brownson
Jesse Lull; + Benjamin F Starke
Cary Clarke
Note. The Officers in the foregoing Return having the Mark + affixed opposite to their names are those which were appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate; those where the contrary is not expressed are now in service.
James McHenry Secy of War War Department April 15th 1800
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