Extracts from Military Academy Letter Book[s]. 1812-1824.

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Extracts from Military Academy Letter Book[s]. 1812-1824.

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Extracts from correspondence concerning reorganization of the Military Academy, regulations, curriculum, texts, faculty qualifications for admission, summer training, uniforms, non-necessity of vacations, supplies, arrest of Jared Mansfield, confrontation between Partridge and Thayer, USMA Board of Visitors, examinations, annual expenses, cadets' march to Boston, July-August 1821, their subsequent meeting with John Adams as well as the text of the speech delivered by Adams to the Corps. Much of the correspondence is from letter books kept during the superintendencies of Swift, Thayer and Partridge.

122 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.

United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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