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To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 14 July 1804

From Henry Dearborn

War Department July 14th. 1804

Sir

I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following persons for appointments in the Army of the United States viz Augustus Chouteau, Charles Gratiot, and Louis Loramee to be Cadets in Artillery also Pascall Vincent

Accept Sir the Assurances of my high respect and consideration

H. D.

FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP); in a clerk’s hand.

For the appointments of Auguste Pierre Chouteau, Charles Gratiot, Jr., and Louis Lorimier, Jr., see Vol. 43:440, 442n. Like the other three appointees, Pascal Vincent Bouis was a scion of a prominent upper Louisiana family. All four young men received commissions in the U.S. Army in 1806 (Donald Chaput, “The Early Missouri Graduates of West Point: Officers or Merchants?” Missouri Historical Review, 72 [1978], 262-70; Heitman, Dictionary description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 232, 300, 470, 641).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 14 July 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0069. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 87.]

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