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To James Madison from David B. Douglass, 30 November 1816

From David B. Douglass

Military Academy West Point Novr. 30th. 1816

Sir

I am requested to transmit to your excellency a copy of a correspondence1 which was had at this place on the arrival of Gen. Swift to assume this Comd. viz. The address of the Academic staff on the occasion, and the Gen’s answer I have the honor to be with Great respect sir Your Obt Hbl. Servt

D B Douglass

Bvt Capt & Ast. Profr.

RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, D-110:9). Docketed as received in the War Department in December 1816. For enclosure (4 pp.), see n. 1.

1. Douglass enclosed a copy of a letter, signed by himself, Jared Mansfield, Andrew Ellicott, Claudius Berard, and Christian E. Zoeller, sent to Brig. Gen. Joseph G. Swift on 23 Nov. 1816 on the occasion of Swift’s arrival at West Point to take over the command of the Military Academy from Capt. Alden Partridge. The signatories, all members of the faculty, welcomed Swift and promised to support his efforts to reassert military, as opposed to civilian, control at the academy. Appended to the letter is a copy of Swift’s reply of 25 Nov. 1816, expressing his thanks and endorsing the sentiments contained in the letter of welcome.

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    To James Madison from David B. Douglass, 30 November 1816
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    Madison, James
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    30 November 1816

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    “To James Madison from David B. Douglass, 30 November 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-11-02-0546. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 1 May 1816–3 March 1817, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 521.]