This promotion in itself is not so material as the opportunity it affords to indicate the feeling of his many associates and friends in the War Department and my own feeling over what we have always considered was an inadvertent but yet a grave injustice.
Statement on the Nomination of Benedict Crowell as Brigadier General of the Army Reserve Corps
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