...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 Sullivan, on the other hand, had his claim to pay and commutation denied by Congress in 1786 owing to his “having withdrawn...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.