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To James Madison from Richard M. Johnson, [ca. May 1815]

From Richard M. Johnson

[ca. May 1815]

The President is requested to read the gratitude of the Revd. Carter Tarrant1 as expressed in his letter; this is the Sentiment of the virtuous in the west; the slang to malcontents to the contrary notwithstanding. If a Chaplain should be retained in the South Tarrant is the only one I know of. If it would not be asking too much of the President I would solicit the continuance of this good man in office who is patriotic & virtuous but poor & needy.

R. M Johnson

RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Tarrant” in 1815). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on filing year and the selection of officers for the peacetime army in early May 1815.

1. Carter Tarrant (ca. 1748–1816) moved from his native Virginia to Kentucky, where he was involved in the Baptist movement for the emancipation of slaves. Appointed chaplain on 10 Dec. 1814, he was retained in the peace establishment but did not receive the 7 Oct. 1815 letter conveying that news until 23 Dec. 1815. He died in New Orleans (Hugh P. Williamson, “A Chaplain in the War of 1812,” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 91 [1957]: 1038–40; Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:945).

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    To James Madison from Richard M. Johnson, [ca. May 1815]
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    1–31 May 1815

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    “To James Madison from Richard M. Johnson, [ca. May 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0235. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 223.]

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