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| Lot # 6 PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN - MILITARY APPOINTMENT SIGNED 05/18/1837 CO-SIGNED BY:JOEL POINSETT - Document 35649 |
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MARTIN VAN BUREN and JOEL R. Poinsett
During the Seminole War, the President appoints a First Lieutenant in the
Artillery.
Partly Printed DS: "M. Van Buren" as President and "J.R.
Poinsett" as Secretary of War, 1p, 13¾x17. Washington, 1837
November 1. In part: "Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence
in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of Roswell W. Lee I do by
these presents appoint him First Lieutenant in the Third Regiment of Artillery
in the service of the United States: to rank as such from the eighteenth day of
May eighteen hundred and thirty seven. He is therefore carefully and diligently
to discharge the duty of First Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of
things thereunto belonging...." In upper left, Manuscript DS: "Roger
Jones/Adjt Genl" recording this document in the Adjutant General office.
During the presidency of MARTIN VAN BUREN, the military was called into
action on a number of occasions. On December 25, 1837, less than two
months after this document was signed, General Zachary Taylor defeated the
Seminoles at Okeechobee swamp. The following year, there were tensions as
disputes broke out along the U.S.-Canadian border. And, on March 3, 1839, Van
Buren sent troops to Maine to protect frontiersmen in the Aroostook War. JOEL
POINSETT served with distinction as Secretary of War, improving the
facilities and course of study at West Point, reorganizing the nation's military
forces and directing the second Seminole War. After his term ended, he devoted
his life to educational and agricultural pursuits. On one of his trips to
Mexico, he brought back a subtropical plant that was named the Poinsettia in his
honor. During the War of 1812, ROGER JONES (1789-1852) received the
brevet of Major for services as Captain of the Artillery in the Battles of
Chippewa and Lundy's Lane and Lieutenant Colonel for gallantry in the sortie
from Fort Erie. On March 7, 1825, he was appointed Adjutant-General of the Army,
a post he held until his death on July 15, 1852. Jones had been brevetted Major
General in 1848. Folds, one touches the "e" in Poinsett and one touches the "M."
and "V". Some yellowing, ½-inch stain at lower left corner.
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