The Benjamin Tallmadge Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge through his correspondence as well as his legal, financial, and personal papers. An army officer, chief intelligence officer, and organizer of the Culper spy ring during the Revolutionary War, Tallmadge became a businessman and U.S. Representative from Connecticut in Congress after the war.
Discusses the three sources of information available in an army camp and the discrepancy in the reports; Washington's campaigns; Aaron Burr's "little affair down in Hackensack." Photostat.