151Enclosure: Circular Soliciting Information to Improve Education in Kentucky, 13 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky. Soldiers of the War of 1812
152To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 21 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
...1785–1872) of Braintree, Massachusetts, studied at Dartmouth College but graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1808 and subsequently served in the War of 1812. From 1817 to 1833, he was superintendent at West Point, where his reorganization of the school and its curriculum created a first-class institution. From 1833 until his retirement in 1863, Thayer was chief...
153To James Madison from Jonathan Roberts, 15 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
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154Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Kean, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
and practiced medicine in the surrounding counties. During the War of 1812 Kean served as a surgeon in
155John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
in 1809, working in this capacity until about 1842, and he was appointed prothonotary of the district court in 1822. During the War of 1812 he served as a colonel commanding a militia unit and as secretary of
156To James Madison from James Monroe, [ca. 6] April 1824 (Madison Papers)
: Jefferson Papers). Monroe informed Jefferson that the administration had denied Virginia’s request to be paid interest on the money the state had borrowed and paid to its militia during the War of 1812 but that the claim should be presented to Congress.
157To James Madison from Benjamin L. Lear, 14 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
Isaac Hull (1773–1843) was a naval officer who served in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. Promoted to captain in 1806, he commanded the frigates
158To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 16 October 1826 (Madison Papers)
...Pendleton Gaines (1777–1849), a Virginia-born soldier, entered the U.S. Army as an ensign in 1797 and became a captain in 1807. A series of rapid promotions followed the start of the War of 1812, and his service at the Battle of Crysler’s Field and as commander at Fort Erie, where he was severely wounded, led to a rank of brigadier general. He saw service in the Seminole and Black Hawk...
159Francis Preston to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
by 1799, Preston commanded a regiment in the War of 1812 and eventually attained the rank of major general. He returned to the
160To James Madison from Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 June 1825 (Madison Papers)
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