Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16)

by United States. Congress

The following Message was received from the President of the United States:

Gentlemen of the Senate:

I nominate Alexander Hamilton, of New York, to be Inspector General of the Army, with the rank of Major General.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina, to be a Major General.

Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, to be a Major General.

Henry Lee, of Virginia, to be a Major General of the Provisional Army.

Edward Hand, of Pennsylvania, to be a Major General of the Provisional Army.

John Brooks, of Massachusetts, to be a Brigadier General.

William Washington, of South Carolina, to be a Brigadier General.

Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, to be a Brigadier General.