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Colonel Sylvanus Thayer
(Born: June 9, 1785 - Died: September 7, 1872)
American soldier. He was the superintendent of West Point, beginning in 1817, substantially revising the curriculum into a form that is still essentially in use today. He resigned his post at West Point in 1833, over a dispute with President Andrew Jackson. Initially a second lieutenant, in 1808, he eventually achieved the rank of Brevet Brigadier General.
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- E. A. Poe to Colonel Sylvanus Thayer - March 10, 1831 (OL#30)
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- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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