All credit to this chapter goes to the same link two chapters ago till I say so

"Our country seems to be clad in real mourning for the loss of our great Benefactor, Patriot and Friend, the illustrious Washington. I can truly say that the loss of my own father did not so sensibly affect me as the death of this peerless Man. While he lived I was fully satisfied that his equal was not on earth, and since he has died, the public testimony to his worth had exceeded even the most sanguine expectation."

Benjamin Tallmadge commenting on Washington's death (Letter to Manasseh Cutler, January 11, 1800)

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One of Washington's and Tallmadge's last letters to each other:

As the fighting wound down, and the army gradually demobilized, Tallmadge was unsure whether or not he would meet with the commander who, in many ways, had become a father figure to him. In one of his last wartime reports to headquarters, Tallmadge wrote to Washington:

"Should I not have the opportunity to pay my personal respects to Your Excellency before you retire from the army; Give me leave at this time, with the warmest Gratitude, to assure Your Excellency that I shall ever entertain the liveliest sense of the many marks of attention which I have recd from Your Excellency's hands. Whatever may have been the result, it gives me great pleasure to reflect that during my Service in the army it has ever been my highest ambition to promote the Welfare of my Country & thereby merit Your Excellency's approbation. In the Calm retirements of domestic life, may you continue to enjoy health, & find increasing satisfaction from the reflection of having conducted the arms of America thro a War so particularly distressing to the obtainment of an honorable peace, & of having been the Instrument, under God, in obtaining the freedom & Independence of the Country - Adieu, my Dear General, & in every Situation of Life I pray you to believe that my best wishes will attend You, & that I shall continue to be, as I am at this time, with every sentiment of respect & Esteem, Your Excellency's most Obedt & very H.ble Servt. B. Tallmadge"

Washington replied:

"I cannot conclude without offering you my sincere and affectionate thanks for your good wishes, and the favourable Sentiments you have been pleased to express of me. The ready obedience, and the polite attention which I have ever experienced from the Officers of the Army, over whom I have had the honor to preside, fills me with the most pleasing Sensations; the reflection of which will contribute not a little to my future happiness. - To none, am I more indebted for these than to yourself and with great truth I can assure you that at all times and in whatever place I may be, I shall have pleasure in seeing you."  

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Monument to the Coram phase of the November 23, 1780, raid. Tallmadge was a Major at the time.

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Tallmadge and Company newspaper advertisement, 1790.

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(This is the Author, Ellen, why are the pictures so small? Like, they look bigger on my laptop? tf?)

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That's all for this chapter. I swear, if you guys could see what I save these pictures as, you would be concerned. If the FBI sees what I save them as... hey peeps. Don't arrest me. I just don't know what to call them. Sorry sorry.