1850 Letter Regarding Lt. Colonel C.A. Waite – Fort Columbus, New York From General Jessup SOLD

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1850 letter regarding Lt. Colonel C.A. Waite – Fort Columbus, New York from General Jessup, This signed letter from the Quartermaster General’s Office, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1850, was sent to Brigadier General Henry Stanton, Asst. QM General, at Philadelphia, Pa. Gen. Jessup writes to Gen. Stanton, concerning a claim by Brevet Colonel C.A. Waite, Superintendent of Recruiting Service, complaining about the “bad quality of the shoes (bootees) issued for company of Recruits at Fort Columbus……the Shoes complained of were issued -whether from that purchased or from that manufactured at the Establishment in Philadelphia.” The letter written on light blue stock.

The shoes would have been sent to Schuylkill Arsenal, and dispersed from there where needed.

Thomas Sidney Jesup (December 16, 1788 – June 10, 1860) was a career army officer known as the “Father of the Modern Quartermaster Corps”. He began his service in the Infantry until 1817, the as Lt. Col. he was with the Adjutant General’s Department. Jessup was promoted to Brigadier General in 1818, as was the QM General from then on.  His 5years in military service was one of the longest in United States Army history.  He saw service in the War of 1812, Seminole Wars, and Mexican War.

Gen. Jessup passed while  in office at Washington, D.C., June 10, 1860 at 72 years of age.

Henry Stanton, (1796 – 1856).  A career army officer, born in Vermont.  Began his military career as a lieutenant of light artillery in June of 1813, and was appointed assistant deputy quartermaster general that same year. He served in Florida, during the Seminole War era, and was brevetted to brigadier general for meritorious conduct in the Mexican War in 1847.  He died at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, August 1, 1856.

Fine condition, with some light staining along left edge.