Alexander Hamilton Jr.
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (May 16, 1786 - August 2, 1875)[1] was the third child and the second son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. He graduated from Columbia University, several weeks after his father was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. He was invited to be an apprentice attorney in Stephen Higginson's Boston law firm and later became a lawyer.
Hamilton fought in the Duke of Wellington's Army, then returned to America to serve in the War of 1812 as an infantry captain in the United States Army; he served in the 41st Infantry Regiment from 1 August 1813 to 15 June 1815.
In 1817, Hamilton married Eliza P. Knox, daughter of William Knox. They had no children.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1819. He also represented Eliza Jumel during the time she was divorcing her unfaithful husband Aaron Burr, the pair separated after only four months of marriage.[2]
U.S. Attorney James Alexander Hamilton was his brother.
Alexander Hamilton also corresponded with President Abraham Lincoln regarding Gen. George McClellan's Peninsular Campaign during the American Civil War. Hamilton wrote Lincoln from New York in a letter dated May 26, 1862, calling his and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's division of McClellan's Department and Army of the Potomac into four separate departments "the grossest mismanagement".[3] He references his time with Wellington as authority to judge military strategy.
References
- ↑ Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army
- ↑ Chernow, Ron Alexander Hamilton pg. 726
- ↑ Russel H. Beatie (14 May 2007). Army of the Potomac: McClellan's First Campaign, March-May 1862. Casemate Publishers. p. 629. ISBN 978-1-61121-021-7.