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Fresh Meat Five Days in Every Week
06/15/1799 Extract
(General Orders) Despite contrary pretentions by some contractors, fresh meat is to be provided to the troops five days of every week.
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French Instruction on the Use of the Sword
11/18/1799 Draft Letter
Hamilton assures Smith that he has no objection to officers being taught the use of the sword by French gentlemen as long as there is no expense to the public.
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Formation and Disposition of a Regiment of Infantry.
12/1799 Printed transcription/modern copy of Document
Instructions for the formation and disposition of a regiment of infantry. Describes the number of battalions, divisions, companies, platoons, sections, and squads. Gives the station for officers and …
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Form them into a Corps even if they are never collected.
06/21/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
McPherson recommends that the volunteers be organized into sundry military units (battalions, regiments, etc.) and assigned to military districts under the command of someone to whom their officers …
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Fix everything as soon as it is in itself practicable.
10/20/1799 Autograph Draft Document
Hamilton discusses enlistment stategies, officers without commissions, stopping and examining boats on the Mississippi, and a suitable person to convey intelligence from Natchez to Knoxville.
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Fitness of Captl Laughton for Managing a Vessel
12/12/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Rivardi expresses his opinion that he considers Capt. Laughton too old and infirm for the fatiguing management of a vessel on the lakes.
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Filling Vacancies Within the Regiment
08/17/1799 Letter Signed
Bentley complains of the method by which the vacancies within his regiment were filled. He would have expected that the vacancies would have been filled by the junior officers and that those who were …
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Filling Menial Stations
03/13/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Smith recommends that officers who need servants should engage them with the pay and rations of soldiers but no soldiers should be taken from the line to fill such menial stations.
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Field & Staff Officers of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regiments
10/31/1799 Draft Document
"I have the honor to send you the arrangement which has been proposed by General Wilkinson and approved by me; subject to a negative from your department previous to his departure. This mode has been …
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Extra Pay for Extra Work, Etc.
08/08/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Rivardi again requests extra pay for soldiers doing extra work. Reports that he has hired a boat "to remove the garrison of Oswego." States that "Several of our men are unwell." Discusses the repair …
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Extra Compensation for Members of a Court Martial and Judge Advocates
08/25/1799 Autograph Draft Document
Hamilton complains of the lack of extra compensation for members of a Court Martial and for Judge Advocates and suggests that the Quartermaster department's regulation allowing five dollars per month …
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Extra Compensation & Complaints from the Troops
09/02/1799 Autograph Draft Document
Hamilton declares that extra allowances should not be made to officers at the place where they are stationed but extra compensation should be made to those not in the army who perform services such as …
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Expenses Related to the Indians
05/20/1799 Extract of Letter
McHenry instructs Governor Sargent on how to account for expenses related to gifts and supplies to the neighboring Indians. Accordingly, all bills, receipts, and vouchers should be submitted to the …
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Expense Report of John McClallen
07/15/1799 Autograph Document Signed
McClallen's expense report enclosed in McClallen to Hamilton, 7/19/1799.
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Expedition in regard to supplies becomes more and more urgent.
06/16/1799 Autograph Draft Document
States: "...the recruiting service...is...now in a course of execution in all the states from Massachusetts inclusively to Virginia inclusively. Thus, the necessity of expedition in regard to the …
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Expedient of Hiring an Assistant Secretary
10/14/1799 Autograph Draft Letter
Hamilton explains how he has saved money for the public by hiring an assistant secretary instead of an aide-de-camp but still lacks a quarters servant.
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Expectation of Promotion by Succession
09/27/1799 Autograph Draft Document
Hamilton explains his conception of the appropriate manner in which vacancies in the officer corps are to be filled. Generally, vacancies are to be filled by succession and not by the insertion of new …
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Execution of Hunt or Perkins may as yet be respited.
07/25/1799 Letter Signed
McHenry discusses the impending execution of Sergeant Richard Hunt and allows for the possibility that the execution may as yet be overruled.
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Evils which Attend the Delay of Money
10/24/1799 Autograph Letter
The description of this letter in the dealer's catalogue reads: "Refers to the 'the evils which attend the delay of money--Among the rest the keeping of the troops out of winter quarters to suffer the …
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Evil Tendency of Correspondence with Inferior Officers
07/31/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
"You will see my dear friend in the case of Captain Frye the evil tendency of correspondence by the head of the War Department [McHenry] with inferior officers when there is a superior. For a thousand …
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Estimates of Construction Costs at Loftus's Heights
11/08/1799 Letter Signed
McHenry informs Hamilton of General Wilkinson's estimates of the costs of the Water Battery, Barracks, and Magazines which have been undertaken at Loftus's Heights.
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Estimate of the Expenses in Repairing the Public Buildings at Carlisle
08/24/1799 Copy of document
Estimate of the expenses both as to materials and workmanship in repairing the public puildings at Carlisle, August 24, 1799
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Establishment of the Additional Regiments in Winter Quarters
08/13/1799 Autograph Draft Letter
After affirming his preference for huts as winter quarters for the troops, Hamilton suggests the best means for establishing the regiments in winter quarters.
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Establishment of a Military Academy
12/12/1799 Letter Signed
Washington states that while he approves of the establishment of national Military Academy he declines to comment on the proposed plan, a duty that should be carried out by the Secretary of War and …
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Establishing a Military Academy, Etc.
07/08/1799 Letter Signed
McHenry discusses a number of matters including extra pay for extra work, a British work that establishes a scale for extra pay, and progress toward establishing a military academy.
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