Henry Knox, Mass., Sept. 12, 1789. Timothy Pickering, Pa., Jan. 2, 1795. James McHenry, Md., Jan. 27, 1796. James Marshall, Va., May 7, 1800. Samuel Dexter, Mass., May 13, 1800. Roger Griswold, Ct., Feb. 3, 1801. Henry Dearborn, Mass., March 5, 1801. William Eustis, Mass., March 7, 1809. John Armstrong, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1813. James Monroe, Va., Sept. 27, 1814. William H. Crawford, Ga., March 2, 1815. Isaac Shelby, Ky., March 5, 1817. G. Graham, Va., April 7, 1817. John C. Calhoun, S. C., Oct. 8, 1817. James Barbour, Va., March 7, 1825. Peter B. Porter, N. Y., May 26, 1828. J. H. Eaton, Tenn., March 9, 1829. Lewis Cass, Mich., Aug. 1, 1831. Benjamin F. Butler, N. Y., March 3, 1837. Joel R. Poinsett, S. C., March 7, 1837. John Bell, Tenn., March 5, 1841. John McLean, O., Sept. 13, 1841. John C. Spencer, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1841. James M. Porter, Pa., March 8, 1843. William Wilkins, Pa., Feb. 15, 1844. William L. Marcy, N. Y., March 5, 1845. George W. Crawford, Ga., March 6, 1849. Charles M. Conrad, La., Aug. 8, 1850. Jefferson Davis, Miss., March 5, 1853. John B. Floyd, Va., March 6, 1857. Joseph Holt, Ky., Dec. 30, 1860. Simon Cameron, Pa., March 5, 1861. Edwin M. Stanton, Pa., Jan. 13, 1862. Ulysses S. Grant, Ill., 1868. J. M. Schofield, 1868. John A. Rawlins, Ill., Mch. 5, ’69. Died Sept. 6, ’69. Wm. T. Sherman, Sept. 9, 1869. Wm. W. Belknap, Oct. 25, 1869. ” ” reappointed March 17, 1873. CHAPTER XVII. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 1. The military successes of the United States would seem to prove undeniably, that, if the nation had adopted a career of conquest as did Ancient Rome, it might have played an important part in the history of warlike peoples. The undisciplined militia shut up a strong army in Boston in 1774, and, had not their powder failed, would very likely have forced the British to evacuate that place immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill. 2. Washington’s army, made up in large part of militia, seemed always on the point of dissolution, and yet the British, after spending more than a hundred millions in fitting out armies against them, and possessing the important superiority of free movement on the sea, for the transportation of forces easily and rapidly to any desired point, never could gain a permanent foothold, though opposed only by a ragged, famished, and half disorganized army.