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v .«ith army labor that the axe well-nigh supplanted tlie canno !<e implements of the American s fvould make good overseers or qualified to serve as officers tl
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at Lieutenant Colonel Taylor v . temporarily* with the choice o». with reduced rank or 'of retirirfj imcs following the financial cris
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look for ways of decreasing gov means determined upon was thj< ftcr much debate and long consif of March z, 1821, decreed a reorj f the army. One regiment of i: d one of riflemen were done atj ><:partmcnt, as such, was abolish id all of its work were assigned |tj [jo provided for the elimination brigadier generals, and numeroil
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it was necessary to discharge Vo reducc the rank of some whoj j stages of tlie work oE the bo ^ed with carrying out tlite act it jv| lor-, with the officers disbandedL brigadier General Thomas S. fe Washington as Quartermastef plan and intervened iii his befL oral Order organizing the regimj
Icplrmljcr 18, 1820, ibid.
||« Statutes at Large, III, 615-^6.
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ith the provision, |:nry Atkinson shou instead of the office
The discharges and reductkj
\ assignment invol and the whole red
sliiftings i regiments, spread dis the most t vent to his As soon a; denouncii g certain of the a outrage 011 the rights and'fee the army, with one exceptioij the natioi . lie requested; Je the Secretary of War “that if
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| act of March 2 appeared, itenant colonel of the First however, that if Brigadier d choose to take a regiment oE Adjutant General various nts would be heceisary and Taylor would be-r o£ the Seventh Ini
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ns in rank, the innumerable |/ed in the consolidation of rganization produced wide-atisfaction and chirges of favoritism. One of issatisfied officers wis Zachary Taylor, who gave aroused feelings in two letters to General Jesup. the General Order reached him, Taylor wrote
jpointments as the greatest ings of the junior officers of , since the establishment o£ Lip to state unequivocally to cannot be retained with my h to be placed 011 the list ot days later his blood was up ing point and lie wjote that he was not surprised rse pursued in;i8iii when “Mr. Madison a man ;allous, 8c unacquainted with the noble feelings of a soldiir, was then at die head of the nation, [and] Mr.
Dallas a liwyer grown grey ii
professior that the 1;|
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officers.” 13 Three
present rajnk, that it is nfy wi disbanded to the boi at the coii perfectly
was to pervertfrigh te illegal, 8c outrage
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at the head of the War Dept
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iniquity 8c chicanery, whose t” was Secretary of War, “but 011s acts oE the present board,
tolerated, or even qountenanced while Mr. Mon-
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i'eekly Register, XX (1821!) o Jesup, June 15. )82i, iii Taylor Papers. Jiuie 18, 1821, ibid.
f the Nation, & Mr. Calhoun is to be lamented, by every his country, 8c venerates its
|), 196-201.