Memoirs of my own Times, by James Wilkinson, Abraham Small
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Memoirs of my own Times, by James Wilkinson, Abraham Small- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.25" w x 6.14" l, 2.17 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 582 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Transcript of a Court Martial By Aya Katz I bought this book as part of the research that I was doing in preparation for my own forthcoming novel, Theodosia and the Pirates.James Wilkinson, most historians agree, was a double agent, a traitor, a perjurer and a paid spy for Spain. He was the chief witness in the treason trial of Aaron Burr, where he tried to present fabricated evidence. After Burr was acquitted, Wilkinson was accused of treason himself, but political events always contrived to keep him free of the taint of what he had done, and at the break of War of 1812 and as late as 1813, he was still the American commanding general in Louisiana Territory. He is well known as the general who never won a battle and never lost a court martial.When I saw that his memoirs were available on Amazon, I was curious to see what James Wilkinson had to say in his own defense. Alas, this book is not a memoir; it is primarily a transcript of Wilkinson's 1814 court martial. Apparently, Wilkinson thought that if people read the transcript, they would see that he had been misjudged.To give you the general tenor of this work, I will copy part of Wilkinson's introduction:"This volume will display to the reader, the closing scenes of my persecutions, contrived by a remorseless minister, to prop his sinking popularity, and support his pretensions to the presidential chair; the secretary was hated by the President, yet to cross the vindictive purposes of a man impatient of power would have produced discord in the cabinet, which is to be avoided at any sacrifice of men and principles; this motive concurring with the well known subserviency of president Madison to Secretary Armstrong prevailed over a sense of justice and public duty.... He consented to the destruction of a faithful public officer, grown grey in the service, and permitted the conflagration of the national capitol, without a struggle, finis coronet opus!"He goes on a little more like that, and then the majority of the book is the transcript of the court martial convened at York House, in the village of Utica, New York, Nov. 18, 1814.It's not a memoir. But if you want to read the transcript of a court martial together with accompanying documents, then it's a good buy.
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