Special Message
05/11/1820
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To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in serv...
Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting those officers who w...
As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of the Army, it is not p...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in officers and men, and tha...