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Balance Due the 14th Regiment, Etc.
04/01/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton assures Col. Rice that the balance due the 14th Regiment has been forwarded to the Paymaster on the Branch Bank Boston.
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Availability of Tents
05/15/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hodgdon informs Major General Hamilton that the tents he requested for his and the Adjutant General's visit to the camp at Scotch Plains are ready and a baggage wagon has been requested to transport …
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Authorization of Payment for Discharged Troops
05/17/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton officially informed that the Act of Congress that authorized the payment of disbanded soldiers and officers a three month allowance was passed. Hamilton ordered arrears be sent to the Deputy …
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Assisting the Adjutant General
01/07/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton informs Col. Ogden that he will be detached from Col. Smith's Brigade so that he can assist the Adjutant General in framing regulations for the Army.
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Assembling of the Reserve Corps
05/07/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Due to a communication from General Wilkinson, it is fixed that the assembling of the reserve corps on the lower parts of the Ohio shall be deferred until Autumn.
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Artillerists & Engineers Vacancies
05/31/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Enclosed is a list of the vacancies which are to be filled in the Regiments of Artillerists and Engineers and the names of the officers who Lt. Col. W. S. Smith has recommended to be transferred to …
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Arrangement of Officers Regimentally
02/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Enclosure - List of names of regiments in infantry with each man's rank.
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Arrangement of Officers of the Western Army
02/21/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton encloses his arrangement of the officers of the Western Army in which he tries as much as possible to prevent the dislocation of Officers from their men. Requested McHenry to review list. …
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Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay.
02/20/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Recommended Aaron Odgen to act as Deputy Quartermaster who is willing to accept appointment to position. Ogden requested delay in appointment which Hamilton saw as a reasonable request. Mentioned …
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Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay
05/17/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Notification that Hamilton will send his baggage forward to Elizabethtown with a servant, and requested that Odgen take appropriate measures to have the bags picked up and moved to camp along with …
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Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay
05/13/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
"Lists,'The difference between my report & that of Lt. Col. Commdt. Ogden respecting Arms, Camp Equipage &c &c to be allowed to the Troops.'"
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Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay
03/17/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Discussed Pinckney's proposal for employing troops during the summer in digging a canal, Hamilton agrees with some points of Pinckney's argument. Employment of troops by brigade and instilling pride …
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Arms & Accoutrements
06/13/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Rice is ordered to furnish Capt. Amos Stoddard arms and accoutrements for twenty men with two horsemen's tents and sixteen private tents. Like articles with also be supplied to Major Buel in whatever …
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Approbation of the Service of the Troops
06/07/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
General Orders: Maj. Gen. Hamilton assures the troops who are about to retire from the field that they carry with them his sense that they deserve the highest merits. They have exemplified how …
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Appointment of Ethan A. Brown
03/07/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton requests that his assistant secretary, Ethan A. Brown, receive an appointment as a second lieutenant so that he might receive emoluments in addition to his monthly salary.
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An Act for estblishing an Academy for Instruction relative to the Military and Naval Service of the United States.
03/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Established four schools for military education. Details of how the schools will be administered, what they will teach, and how they will be provided with pay and other compensations.
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An Act for better organizing the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers to be hereafter denominated the Corps of Engineers and Artillerists.
03/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Separated the corps of artillerists and engineers by those on foot and those on horse. Details on how the corps should be subdivided and who should be in which group. Gave President power to raise …
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Alterations in the Uniforms
01/17/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
McHenry explains that the uncertainty regarding the continuity of the new regiments has prevented him from deciding on proposed alterations in the uniforms.
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Allowances for Officers
03/21/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Hamilton affirms the rule that only Congress can provide special allowances to officers, the principle being that only the legislature can authorize expenditures of the people's money.
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Allowance of Double Rations
01/14/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Swan wants a clarification of the regulations that explain what description of command is authorized an allowance of double rations.
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Advise on Marching Troops
01/21/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
It was decided b/w Wilkinson and Pinckney that troops should be marched to Harper's Ferry. Some discrepancies over which regiments were under Pinckney's command. Requests directions. Discussed pay …
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers, Etc.
03/11/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Ordered all recruiting officers and their recruits to their "regimental rendezvouses" as following General Orders. Returns for clothing on hand requested, once he received this paperwork Hamilton …
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
05/05/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Notification of orders for Col. Smith and Rice to prepare troops for encamping. Since no sufficient fortifications exist to house and exercise the troops, Hamilton advised moving the troops to Rhode …
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
04/29/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers. Enclosed copies of a letter from G. North …
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Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
03/24/1800 Modern Printed Transcription of Letter/Document
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers. Discussed frequency of receiving …
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