West Point:Jefferson’s Military Academy
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military school at West Point and also on the appointment of Major. Jonathan Williams” to direct “the necessary arrangements, at that place ...
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On January , Professor Jared Mansfield wrote to Thomas Jefferson from West Point: “The Superintendent, Officers, Professors, Instructors, & Cadets of the United States Military Academy, impressed, with a high sense of the great services, you have rendered the Nation, & that this Institution, with which they are connected, originated under your patronage, & presidency, are anxious for some special, & appropriate memorial of your person, which may descend to posterity.” The library at the U.S. Military Academy, Mansfield informed Jefferson, had portraits of George Washington and of Jonathan Williams, the academy’s first superintendent. Would Jefferson, Mansfield asked, “gratify them” by sitting for Thomas Sully, one of the “best Portrait Painters of our Country,” at Monticello? By , when President Jefferson established the United States Military Academy, he had fully embraced the importance of “useful sciences” in education and in the protection of the young nation. Two years earlier, Jefferson had written to Pierre S. du Pont de Nemours, asking: “What are the branches of science which in the present state of man, and particularly with us, should be introduced into an academy?” DuPont proposed an all- inclusive plan of national education with primary schools, colleges, and four specialty schools – medicine, VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2; WINTER 2001 This Issue’s Other Stories MONTICELLO NEWSLETTER ❧ AWARDS & HONORS ❧ BOARD OF TRUSTEES ❧ BURIAL GROUND ❧ BURIAL GROUND CEREMONY ❧ CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ❧ COOK’S ROOM ❧ INDIAN ART PRESENTED ❧ LEVY BOOK ❧ LEWIS & CLARK PLANS ❧ PRESIDENT’S LETTER ❧ THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO ❧ WINTER TOUR CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE. © Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 2001 West Point:Jefferson’s Military Academy VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2; WINTER 2001 MONTICELLO NEWSLETTER Jefferson’s West Point CONTINUED, PAGE TWO CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE. © Thomas Jef ...
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