Christ the Spirit: Being an Attempt to State the Primitive View of Christianity, Part 1
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Fifty years in camp and field, diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S.A;
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Remarks Upon Alchemy And The Alchemists, Indicating A Method Of Discovering The True Nature Of Hermetic Philosophy
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Spenser's Poem, Entitled Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, Explained, Vol. 4: With Remarks Upon the Amoretti Sonnets, and Also Upon a Few of the Minor Poems of Other Early English Poets (Classic Reprint)
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Ethan Allen Hitchcock was an American soldier. He took part in the Seminole Wars, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War. During the American Civil War he had assignments in War Department in Washington, in which he served as a major general.
Background
Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born on May 18, 1798 in Vergennes, Vermont, United States. He was the son of Samuel Hitchcock, a United States Circuit judge, and of Lucy Caroline (Allen) Hitchcock, a daughter of Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary patriot.
Education
At the age of sixteen, on the death of his father, Hitchcock obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated, July 17, 1817.
Career
Hitchcock rose by the usual stages to the rank of captain on December 31, 1824. From January 31, 1824, until the spring of 1827 he acted as assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point. Meanwhile he had plunged into the study of philosophy in an effort to answer various doubts that troubled him on the subject of religion. He reached the satisfactory conclusion that "The great Whole is one, and all the parts agree with all the parts"--a conclusion which he was to reaffirm, much later, in volume after volume.
As a result of refusing to sit on a court of inquiry at West Point which, he held, contravened the 92nd Article of War, he was ordered to rejoin his company, then at Fort Snelling, but on his way West he stopped in Washington and laid the case before President Adams. When after investigation his contention was found correct, he was, in 1829, returned to West Point as commandant of cadets. Most remarkably, he retained the friendship of the commanding officer whom he had opposed. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, W. T. Sherman, and other officers of Civil War distinction, as well as the poet, Edgar Allan Poe, sat under his instruction. Toward the end of his stay at West Point Hitchcock protested vigorously against President Jackson's interference with discipline, and in consequence found his promotion in the service less rapid than it might otherwise have been.
In 1833 he declined the offer from the American Colonization Society of the governorship of Liberia (an offer renewed and again declined in 1837). From 1833 till 1836 he served on frontier duty at Fort Crawford, Wis. During the brief "Florida War" he was acting inspector-general on the staff of Edmund P. Gaines. His testimony at a court of inquiry as to the rivalry between Gaines and Winfield Scott won him the dangerous enmity of Scott. From 1837 to 1840 he was on Indian duty in the Northwest, where he administered the disbursing agency with an integrity which obtained well-merited recognition.
On September 28, 1841, he was sent by the War Department to investigate the frauds against the Cherokees; his report, however, proved so much more trenchant than was expected that the Department sought to suppress it and the difficulty experienced by Congress in obtaining it was one of the high points of the political season. During two more years in Florida, the 3rd Infantry, of which he was made lieutenant-colonel in January 1842, became under his guidance one of the crack regiments of the army and the first since the War of 1812 to practise the evolution of the line.
Transferred to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, in 1843, and to the Louisiana frontier in 1844, his regiment became a part of General Taylor's army of occupation in 1845. After leave of absence on account of ill health, he returned in time for the Mexican War. A reconciliation with General Scott was followed by his appointment as inspector-general on the latter's staff. At the close of the war he was promoted colonel and given command of the Military Division of the Pacific. Stationed in San Francisco, he broke up Walker's filibustering expedition into Mexico by his seizure of the brig Arrow. This act brought upon him the hostility of Secretary Davis, who refused Hitchcock's application for four months' leave of absence because of renewed ill health. Hitchcock thereupon resigned from the army, October 18, 1855.
The outbreak of the Civil War found him living in St. Louis. He at once went to Washington to offer his services to the Federal government, and after vexatious delays was appointed, through the influence of General Scott, major-general of volunteers. He rendered efficient aid to the War Department, becoming commissioner for exchange of prisoners of war on November 15, 1862, and commissary general of prisoners of war on November 3, 1865. His labors were not ended until October 1, 1867, when he was among the last volunteers to be mustered out.
After the War he resided in the South for the sake of his health, living first in Charleston, South Carolina, and then in Sparta, Georgia, whither he moved shortly before his death. Hitchock's first book, The Doctrines of Spinoza and Swedenborg Identified (1846) pointed out numerous hitherto unnoticed parallels in the philosophy of the two but somewhat overstressed their importance. In Remarks upon Alchemy and the Alchemists (1857) he endeavored to prove that the leading alchemists were members of a vast secret society devoted to symbolic presentation of a liberal pantheistic philosophy under the disguise of other interests. In this society he enrolled the writers of the Gospels in Christ the Spirit (1851); Swedenborg in Swedenborg a Hermetic Philosopher (1858); Shakespeare in Remarks on the Sonnets (1865); and other works. All these laborious efforts are today only literary curiosities, while Hitchcock's one really valuable literary work, his vivid autobiographical Fifty Years in Camp and Field (1909), he left unpublished.
Hitchcock struggled with questions of right and wrong during his long military career. He thought the Mexican-American War was wrong because the United States had "not one particle of right to be there. "
Interests
Hitchcock played the flute and amassed a sizable collection of flute music.
Connections
In 1868 Hitchcock married Martha Rind Nicholls of Washington.