Letters: to Colonel Jonathan Williams / by James Wilkinson, 1804-1805.

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Letters: to Colonel Jonathan Williams / by James Wilkinson, 1804-1805.

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Col. Williams, the first Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point, resigned his commission over a disagreement about the rank and status of engineer officers. In three letters to Williams, James Wilkinson's attempts to persuade him to withdraw his resignation. Williams explains his views in the draft of a reply to Wilkinson dated January 5, 1805.

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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815

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