[Copy] War Department July 2^d 1801. Sir, I have the satisfaction to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26^th of May by Captain Pratt. I have written you regularly by the post every Tuesday, and I flatter myself you have received them. I am sorry that Brigadier General Harmar should take the resolution to resign, as, with you, I esteem him to be a good officer, notwithstanding the loss sustained on the late expedition. I sincerely hope he will reconsider that resolution, and continue in Service at least for the Campaign. The copies of my letter to Major General Butler will inform him of the measures which have been resorted for the discharge of the militia and of the Guides which he will call out after the troops shall descend the Ohio. I enclose you a copy of mine to him of this date. And I also enclose you a Schedule to the troops who have marched and who will march in the course of this month. I think this Schedule may be depended upon as to the extent. Excepting such additional as Major General Butler may raise to the number of which, I confess, I am not very sanguine. It therefore from your own view