The Works of Alexander Hamilton; Correspondence [Contin.] 1795-1804 1777 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to Public Creditors. 1790. Vindication of Funding System. 1791
The Works of Alexander Hamilton; Correspondence [Contin.] 1795-1804 1777 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to Public Creditors. 1790. Vindication of Funding System. 1791
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...of major-general. This was intended to place him next in command to Gen. Washington, yet I feel some solicitude about the effect. Under circumstances not dissimilar in the American war, I believe some staff officers, not taken from the line, were resisted in their claims to command officers of inferior rank in the line ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...of major-general. This was intended to place him next in command to Gen. Washington, yet I feel some solicitude about the effect. Under circumstances not dissimilar in the American war, I believe some staff officers, not taken from the line, were resisted in their claims to command officers of inferior rank in the line. I wish, therefore, that the act of Congress, authorizing the appointment of an " inspector-general with the rank of major-general," had been explicit; that the inspector-general might be appointed from among those who should be major-generals, or that some mode had been devised to remove all doubt of Colonel Hamilton's right to command all the major-generals under the law as it stands. 1 take very kindly the communication of yout sentiments in this matter, and shall feel my obligations increased with the future communication of your ideas and opinions on every subject involving the safety, the interest, and the happiness of our country. But, although I deem so lowly of my own discernment in such weighty concerns as to render such communications from you and other eminent citizens peculiarly grateful, yet, on the present occasion, I cannot withhold the pleasure of showing you the perfect coincidence of our thought?, by presenting you with a copy of my letter of the 6th instant, to Gen. Washington. Colonel Hamilton arrived here the next morning, and in the freedom and confidence with which we conversed, I handed it to him to peruse. General Washington's answer of the 11th, I received the 16th, and sent to Colonel Hamilton extracts, to show the current of the General's reasoning; concluding with an expression of my hopes, that as he (Colonel Hamilton) had in the war for our independence devoted his talents to enhance another's glory, ...
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