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From John Adams to United States Senate, 18 July 1798

July 18. 1798

Gentlemen of the Senate

I nominate Alexander Hamilton of New York to be Inspector General of the Army with the Rank of Major General.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina to be a Major General

Henry Knox of Massachusetts to be a Major General

Henry Lee of Virginia to be a Major General of the provisional Army

Edward Hand of Pennsylvania to be a Major General of the provisional Army.

John Brooks of Massachusetts to be a Brigadier General

William Washington of South Carolina to be a Brigadier General.

Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey to be a Brigadier General.

William Stevens Smith of New York to be <a> Adjutant General, with the Rank of Brigadier General.

Ebenezer Huntington of Connecticut to be a Brigadier General of the provisional Army

Anthony Walton White to be a Brigadier General of the provisional Army.

William Richison Davie of North Carolina to be a Brigadier General of the provisional Army.

John Sevier of Tennessee to be a Brigadier General of the Provisional Army.

James Craik of Virginia to be Physician General of the Army.

John Adams

DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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