...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 Sullivan, on the other hand, had his claim to pay and commutation denied by Congress in 1786 owing to his “having withdrawn...
32II. Winthrop Sargent’s Journal, 4–18 May (Washington Papers)
...April 1775. He was a lieutenant colonel in the 1st New Hampshire Regiment when he left the army in 1782. Dearborn became Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of war in 1801 and commander of the United States Army during the War of 1812.
33Rules of the Constitutional Society of Virginia, [ca. 14 June] 1784 (Madison Papers)
County to the House, where he served intermittently until 1800, except for his three terms in Congress (1789–1795). JM appointed Lee as a claims adjuster after the War of 1812, and from 1820 until his death he was judge of the Orphans’ Court of the District of Columbia (Lee,
34To James Madison from Robert Johnson, 23 September 1786 (Madison Papers)
...of Fredericksburg (now Warsaw). One of his sons, Richard Mentor Johnson, became a U.S. senator from Kentucky and ninth vice president of the U.S., while another, James, was a minor figure in the War of 1812 and a U.S. congressman (
35From John Jay to John Adams, 1 November 1786 (Jay Papers)
The United States, Great Britain, and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812
36Notes on Debates, 30 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
...bearing royal commissions as British consul for the middle states and as commissary for commercial affairs throughout the U.S. Congress accepted his commission as consul, and he remained in Philadelphia in that capacity until the outbreak of the War of 1812 (Joanne L. Neel,
37To James Madison from John Brown, 23 November 1788 (Madison Papers)
...born in Ireland, moved to Kentucky after serving as an officer of the Continental line during the Revolution. He married Lucy Clark, sister of George Rogers Clark, and their son, George Croghan, served with distinction in the War of 1812 (Charles R. Williams, “George Croghan,”
38From George Washington to Paul Bentalou, 19 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
...in Pulaski’s Legion, acting as second in command to Pulaski at Germantown and Savannah. After the war he settled in Baltimore. During the Quasi-War with France, Bentalou commanded a troop of Baltimore militia and during the War of 1812 he served as a deputy quartermaster general.
39To George Washington from William Heath, 2 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
...major to William Heath. After the war Sewall became a merchant at Fort Western (Augusta), Maine, where he was a selectman, acted as town clerk for many years, and later served with Massachusetts militia units in the War of 1812. Sewall became clerk of the
40To George Washington from Samuel Smith, 2 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
...in the Maryland house of delegates, Smith was elected to the House of Representatives in 1792, serving there until 1803. Elected to the Senate in 1802, he served in that body until 1815. During the War of 1812, he served as a major general of militia in the defense of Baltimore. He served again in the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822 and in the Senate once more from 1822 to 1833....