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United States general
Thomas Sidney Jesup
(December 16, 1788 ? June 10, 1860) was a
United States Army
officer known as the "Father of the Modern
Quartermaster Corps
". His 52-year (1808?1860) military career was one of the longest in the history of the United States Army.
Biography
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Thomas Jesup was born in
Berkeley County
, Virginia (now
West Virginia
). He began his military career in 1808, and served in the
War of 1812
, seeing action in the battles of
Chippewa
and
Lundy's Lane
in 1814, where he was wounded. He was appointed
Quartermaster General
on May 8, 1818, by President
James Monroe
.
[1]
Seminole War and controversy
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In 1836, while Jesup was still officially Quartermaster General, President
Andrew Jackson
detached him first to deal with the
Creek
tribe in
Georgia
and
Alabama
, and then to assume command of all U.S. troops in
Florida
during the
Second Seminole War
(1835?1842).
[2]
His capture of
Seminole
leaders
Osceola
and
Micanopy
under a
false flag of truce
[3]
provoked controversy in the United States and abroad.
[4]
Many newspapers called for an inquiry and his firing but the government supported its general,
[5]
and at the conclusion of the hostilities, Jesup returned to his official post.
[1]
He was famously quoted as having declared about the Seminole that "[t]he country can be rid of them only by
exterminating
them."
[6]
Further service
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During the
Mexican?American War
, Jesup traveled from his headquarters in Washington, D.C., to oversee the supplying of troops in Mexico. He served as Quartermaster General for 42 years, having the second longest continual service in the same position in U.S. military history (
George Gibson
served as Commissary General of the US Army for 43 years, from 1818 until 1860).
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He died in office in Washington, D.C., in June 10, 1860 at age 72.
[1]
[8]
He was buried at
Oak Hill Cemetery
.
[9]
Dates of rank
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- 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Infantry ? 3 May 1808
- 1st Lieutenant, 7th Infantry ? 1 December 1809
- Captain, 7th Infantry ? 20 January 1813
- Major, 19th Infantry ? 6 April 1813
- Major, 25th Infantry ? 18 April 1814
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel ? 5 July 1814
- Brevet Colonel ? 25 July 1814
- Major, 1st Infantry ? 17 May 1815
- Lieutenant Colonel, 3rd Infantry ? 30 April 1817
- Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General ? 27 March 1818
- Brigadier General, Quartermaster General ? 8 May 1818
- Brevet Major General ? 8 May 1828
Legacy and honors
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- Jesup, Georgia
;
Lake Jesup
, Florida; and
Fort Jesup
, Louisiana, were named in his honor.
- 1986, Jesup was inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame.
[1]
- Battery Jesup at the Spanish?American War fort, Fort Fremont
[10]
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References
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- ^
a
b
c
d
Brigadier General Jesup, father of the Quartermaster Corps
Archived
March 25, 2014, at the
Wayback Machine
, US Quartermaster Foundation
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Jahoda, Gloria.
The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813?1855
. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York. 1975.
ISBN
0-03-014871-5
.
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United States. Congress. House.
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session
. p. 15.
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Patricia Riles Wickman (August 27, 2006).
Osceola's Legacy
. University of Alabama Press. p. 25.
ISBN
978-0-8173-5332-2
.
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Hatch, Thom (2012).
Osceola and the Great Seminole War
. New York: St. Martin’s Press. p. 219.
- ^
Indigenous Peoples History (book cover)
, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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History, U.S. Army Center of Military.
"The Subsistence Department ? Center of Military History"
.
History.army.mil
. Archived from
the original
on July 1, 2017
. Retrieved
November 11,
2017
.
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"Brief Biography of Thomas Sidney Jesup"
.
Florida Memory Thomas Sidney
. Retrieved
October 2,
2022
.
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"Oak Hill Cemetery - Chapel Valley, Lot 481"
(PDF)
.
Oak Hill Cemetery
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on November 30, 2022.
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"Fort Fremont Historical Park & Beach ? History"
.
Fortfremont.org
. Retrieved
November 11,
2017
.
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"Fort Fremont ? St. Helena Island, South Carolina"
.
Sciway.net
. Retrieved
November 11,
2017
.
External links
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- Jesup, Thomas S.
"Letter, 1836 Oct. 25, Headquarters, Apalachicola [to] W[illia]m Schley, Governor of Georgia, Milledgeville, Georgia / Major General T[homas] S. Jesup"
.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Digital Library of Georgia
. Retrieved
February 21,
2018
.
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- Jesup, Thomas S.
"Letter, 1836 Dec. 9, Volusia, Florida, [to] Governor W[illia]m Schley, Milledgeville, Georgia / T[homas] S. Jesup"
.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries, Digital Library of Georgia
. Retrieved
February 21,
2018
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