...later career proved happier than Sullivan’s. Carberry managed to rehabilitate himself and resume his career, serving as a captain in the U.S. Army from 1791 until his resignation in 1794 and, during the War of 1812, as a lieutenant colonel in the 36th U.S. Infantry. Sullivan, on the other hand, had his claim to pay and commutation denied by Congress in 1786 owing to his “having withdrawn...
2To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 28 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
convention of his state which ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788, and a congressman from 1797 to 1814. He served during the War of 1812 as an aide-de-camp of Major General Jacob Brown and Major General Andrew Jackson. Dawson and JM frequently corresponded between 1785 and 1812. See
3Benjamin Harrison to Virginia Delegates, 31 May 1783 (Madison Papers)
...., returned after the war to South Carolina, where from 1811 until his death he was “manager of the planting interest upon and in the neighborhood” of St. John’s Parish, Berkeley County. In the War of 1812 he was captain of a cavalry troop and subsequently lieutenant colonel of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment of Cavalry until “old age” forced his retirement (Louis A. Burgess, comp. and...
4To James Madison from the Reverend James Madison, 18 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
...probably was derived from his faith in the impending cessation of hostilities in America. Thirty years after the present letter was written would be the year of the Reverend James Madison’s death, and of the beginning of the War of 1812 during the presidency of JM. James C. Madison seems not to have been a veteran of that or any other armed conflict.
5From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 31 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
...York Continental Regiment on 1 January 1781 to head the New York militia and state troops being raised for the summer campaign. He was mayor of New York City from 1807 to 1811 and JM’s frequent correspondent during the War of 1812 (
6From George Washington to Abraham Skinner, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
...and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files). Garrett subsequently transferred to the 4th Massachusetts Regiment and remained in the army until spring 1783. He worked as a carpenter after the war and served as a Massachusetts militia officer during the War of 1812.
7From George Washington to Joseph Reed, 28 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
George Washington Reed (1780–1813) graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1798 and became a senior naval officer. Taken prisoner during the War of 1812, he died from a tropical fever while captive in Jamaica.
8From Benjamin Franklin to Paul Bentalou, 15 May 1780 (Franklin Papers)
). He eventually did return to the U.S., where he served in both the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812: W.W. Abbot
9To George Washington from Sergeant John Cambridge, 20 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
...transferred to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, and when the state’s regiments were consolidated in May 1781, he was retained in the Rhode Island Regiment. He left the army in December 1783. Sherburne later served in the War of 1812.
10From George Washington to Lieutenant William Colfax, 2 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
...he left the army in November 1783. After the war, Colfax moved to Pompton, N.J., and served in the New Jersey militia, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general, commanding a brigade in the War of 1812.
11To George Washington from Brigadier General James Clinton, 19 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
15:215–16). Carleton Island became part of Jefferson County, N.Y., after the War of 1812.
12To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 23 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...and Harford counties, Md., and after the war he became known as the leading advocate of Swedenborgian mysticism in the United States. He served as a chaplain to the U.S. Congress, 1809–13, and during the War of 1812 he served as chaplain to the Northwestern Army, dying as a result of exposure after being shipwrecked on the Chippewa River.
13To George Washington from Captain Isaac Craig, 18 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
). Craig and James O’Hara established in Pittsburgh the first glass factory west of the Alleghenies in 1797, and during the War of 1812, Craig helped to manufacture munitions for the U.S. Army (for more on Craig’s life, see Neville B. Craig,
14To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 28 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
...the 3d New Jersey Regiment in June 1777 and became a brigade chaplain in August 1778, serving until the end of the war. After the war, he served as pastor to several New Jersey churches, and during the War of 1812 he served as a navy chaplain.
15To George Washington from John Beatty, 18 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
...General
Stirling in January 1779 but resigned in May of that year. In the 1790s Thomas Marsh
Forman represented Cecil County in the Maryland House of Delegates, and he served as a
brigadier general of Maryland militia during the War of 1812.
16[April 19. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
was writing was a major general and who became governor general of British North America and an unlucky figure in the northern campaigns of the war of 1812. See
17To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Smith, 16 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
...named a major in the U.S. Army. Following his discharge in 1800, Beall became active in the militia of the District of Columbia. Beall served briefly as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and he later served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates.
18General Orders, 2 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
...in February 1777 he became a captain in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, where he remained until transferring to the 2d Pennsylvania Regiment at the beginning of 1783. Bower was a brigadier general in the 6th Pennsylvania Division during the War of 1812.
19From George Washington to Colonel Evan or William Evans, 27 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
...in Berks County, served as colonel of the 2d Regiment from May 1777 to February 1781. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature 1799–1805 and the U.S. Congress 1813–1815 and 1820–1825. During the War of 1812 Udree served as major general of the 6th Pennsylvania Division.
20From George Washington to Major General Du Coudray, 30 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the planning and construction of the fortifications at Fort Mifflin, Pa., West Point, N.Y., and New Port, Rhode Island. Tousard was appointed subcommissary of commericial relations at New Orleans in July 1805 and during the War of 1812 was commissary at the same city.
21General Orders, 23 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
...official until later this year. Smith served as a captain in the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment until he retired from the army in January 1783. In 1785 Smith became a judge in the court of common pleas, and during the War of 1812 he served as a brigadier general of volunteers.
22From George Washington to Captain Allen McLane, 28 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
...army and fleet. After the war McLane entered a trading venture with Robert Morris. He became marshal of Delaware in 1789 and collector of the port of Wilmington in 1797, and he commanded the defenses of Wilmington during the War of 1812.
23To George Washington from John McKinly, 28 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
..., Virginia. In 1783 he was elected to the Continental Congress, and he later served in the Delaware house of representatives. Tilton served as physician and surgeon general of the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Thomas Collins (1732–1789), who was born in England, was the high sheriff of Kent County in the 1760s. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Delaware militia in May 1775...
24To George Washington from Brigadier General John Armstrong, 22 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Armstrong served as an aide-de-camp to Major General Gates. In March 1783 Armstrong became involved in the so-called Newburgh Conspiracy and composed the famous letters that incited unrest among officers of the Continental army. During the War of 1812 Armstrong served as a brigadier general and as secretary of war.
25From George Washington to Joshua Loring, 1 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the district in the U.S. Congress. Dearborn was Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of war from 1801 to 1809, collector of the port of Boston from 1809 to 1812, major general of the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and minister plenipotentiary to Portugal from 1822 to 1824.
26From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Gunning Bedford, 9 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
, 1:85). Thomas Macdonough (Mc Donough; 1747–1795) of Trap (now Macdonough), Del., was the father of Thomas Macdonough (1783–1825), the famous naval officer of the War of 1812. The elder Macdonough, who was elected major of the Delaware Regiment on 22 Mar. 1776 (see ibid., 32), refused GW’s offer of a promotion in order to resume his medical practice in New Castle....
27General Orders, 13 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Gen. John Glover. After Learned’s military service ended in June 1783, he settled in Pittsfield, Mass., as a merchant. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1804 to 1805, and during the War of 1812 he was colonel of the 9th Infantry Regiment.
28To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Wayne, 31 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
The Rev. David Jones (died 1820), a chaplain of Pa. troops, was in action throughout the war and in many battles with Wayne; he later served in the War of 1812. Heitman,
29To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 16 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
...remained deputy quartermaster of the northern department until the end of the war, when he resumed the legal studies that he had suspended in 1775. Lewis served as governor of New York from 1804 to 1807, and in the War of 1812 he was a major general.
30General Orders, 3 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Jan. 1781 was commended by GW in general orders eight days later. Hull served to the end of the war and remained on duty for several months more with the 1st American Regiment on the western frontier. During the War of 1812 Hull served as a brigadier general and was cashiered after he surrendered to the enemy at Detroit.