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To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 9 January 1805

From Henry Dearborn,
with Jefferson’s Approval

War Department Jany. 9th 1805

Sir

I have the honor to propose for your approbation Louis Valle of Louisiana and Jesse F Heard of Georgia as Cadets in the Regiment of Artillerists

With Sentiments of Esteem & respect I am your Most Obedt. Servant

H. Dearborn

[Approval by TJ:]

Jan. 11. 1805.

Approved

Th: Jefferson

RC (PHi: Daniel Parker Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at foot of text: “President of the United States”; endorsed by a clerk. FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP).

On 12 Jan., Dearborn instructed Louis Vallé (Valle) and Jesse F. Heard to report to the military academy at West Point “as soon as practicable.” On 16 Apr. 1805, Dearborn accepted Heard’s resignation and considered him “as never having been in the service.” After graduating from the academy in 1808, Vallé declined an appointment to the artillery regiment and left the army (DNA: RG 107, LSMA; Heitman, Dictionary description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, Washington, D.C., 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 979).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 9 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0336. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 322.]

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