WAR 1812 SEMINOLE INDIAN FIGHTER WIA COLONEL GENERAL JESUP SIGNED LETTER 1830 !!

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THOMAS SIDNEY JESUP (1788-1860) U.S. ARMY MAJOR GENERAL - WAR OF 1812 COLONEL & COMBAT LEADERWHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN ACTION IN THE BATTLE OF NIAGARA (LUNDY'S LANE)! HE WAS AN INDIANFIGHTER AS GENERAL IN COMMAND OF U.S. TROOPS AND THE TROOPS OF GEORGIA & ALABAMA, BEING WOUNDED IN THE FACE DURING A FIGHT WITH THE SEMINOLE INDIANS AT JUPITER INLET IN 1838. HE LATER CAPTURED THE SEMINOLE INDIAN CHIEF LEADER OSCEOLA! DURING THE MEXICAN WAR, JESUP SERVED AS QUARTERMASTER GENERAL & IS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF THE ARMY QUARTERMASTER CORPS . HE ACCOMPANIED GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ON HIS EXPEDITION AGAINST VERACRUZ - FORT JESUP, LOUISIANA ; CAMP JESUP, NEAR ATLANTA & A LAKE IN ORANGE COUNTY FLORIDA WERE NAMED IN HIS HONOR! JESUP ALSO ACTED AS A SECOND TO HENRY CLAY IN THE LATTER'S BLOODLESS DUEL WITH JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE IN 1826. HERE'S A RARE 1830 LETTER SIGNED BY JESSUP TO Major Towle , 5th Regiment , Commanding at Fort Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois re a state ment re the account of the "...Late John G . Farman..." THE DOCUMENT MEASURES 8" X 10" & IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION!! Note: The photograph of Jesup is not included with the Auto graph. A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR EARLY 19t h CENTURY MILITARY/POLITICAL AUTOGRAPH & MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION! BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MAJOR-GENERAL JESUP Jesup, Thomas Sidney (1788-1860), army officer, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, the son of James Edward Jesup and Ann O'Neill, farmers. Jesup's family moved to the Kentucky frontier in 1792, where his father rented a farm. The father died four years later, however, leaving his wife to raise her children in poverty and debt. As a young man, Jesup worked as a store clerk in Maysville, Kentucky, then procured a second lieutenant's commission in one of the infantry regiments added to the army in 1808 in response to the growing controversy with Great Britain. Early in the War of 1812, Jesup served on the staff of Brigadier General William Hall, commander of the northwestern army, and he was captured when Hull surrendered Detroit in August 1812. Paroled soon afterward, Jesup distinguished himself as both a staff officer and a combat leader. As a 25-year-old major, he commanded a regiment in the bloody Niagara campaign of 1814, and he was wounded at the battle of Lundy's Lane. Late in the war, the War Department ordered him to Connecticut, ostensibly on recruiting duty but actually to keep the Madison administration informed on the deliberations of the Hartford Convention, a meeting of antiwar New England Federalists. Jesup was retained in the service when Congress reduced the army after the Peace of Ghent. While commanding at New Orleans in 1816, the ambitious young officer longed for a war with Spain and independently planned an attack on Cuba. In 1818 Secretary of War John C. Calhoun appointed Jesup to the key staff office of quartermaster general of the army, a post that carried the rank of brigadier general and was charged with the procurement of light military equipment, the transportation of supplies of all sorts, and the construction of military roads, posts, and other buildings. During the years that followed, Jesup participated in a broad effort, coordinated by Calhoun, to renovate military management and introduce systematic administrative procedures--thereby avoiding a repetition of the breakdowns and confusion that had characterized the War of 1812 mobilization. He compiled a comprehensive set of departmental regulations that clearly specified each form of duty and established a strict system of property accountability, enforced through the regular submission of standardized reports and returns. He used his office as a training school to develop a cadre of competent young supply officers. Despite the logistical burdens imposed by an expanding frontier and the pressures of recurrent congressional retrenchment campaigns, Jesup brought an unprecedented degree of order and efficiency to quartermaster operations. Together with his counterparts in other army staff departments, he produced a pattern of administrat... read more

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