To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 14 July 1804
From Henry Dearborn
War Department July 14th. 1804
Sir
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following persons for appointments in the Army of the United States viz Augustus Chouteau, Charles Gratiot, and Louis Loramee to be Cadets in Artillery also Pascall Vincent
Accept Sir the Assurances of my high respect and consideration
H. D.
FC (Lb in DNA: RG 107, LSP); in a clerk’s hand.
For the appointments of Auguste Pierre Chouteau, Charles Gratiot, Jr., and Louis Lorimier, Jr., see Vol. 43:440, 442n. Like the other three appointees, Pascal Vincent Bouis was a scion of a prominent upper Louisiana family. All four young men received commissions in the U.S. Army in 1806 (Donald Chaput, “The Early Missouri Graduates of West Point: Officers or Merchants?” Missouri Historical Review, 72 [1978], 262-70; , 232, 300, 470, 641).