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Brigadier General Joseph Bloomfield Another ex-Revolution War Major and Democrat-Republican, Bloomfield was appointed Brigadier General on March 27, 1812. Although he had successfully reorganized the New Jersey State Militia, Bloomfield was a soldier of another era. He did his best work raising and training 8,000 troops in northern New York, he commanded the 1st Brigade of the Northern Army, but saw no action. In early 1813 he was sent to Philadelphia . . . a quiet sector . . . for the remainder of the war.
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