half-aide

Updated: July 13, 2025

So, half-aide and half-secretary, he became at once the confidential adviser of the General, and was employed by him not only in his multitudinous correspondence, but in difficult negotiations, and in those delicate duties which required discretion and tact. He had those qualities which secured confidence, integrity, diligence, fidelity, and a premature wisdom.

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 : American Founders