Recruiting and Rations
Document 1798Discusses mustering of new recruits and provision of their rations.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Discusses mustering of new recruits and provision of their rations.
Date
09/08/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798090800001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Jonathan Dayton
James McHenry
Lieutenant Dayton
Capn Frye
President.
Notable locations
Elizabeth Town, New Jersey
War Department
Elizabeth Town
Niagara
United States.
Notable items
letter
yesterday morning
old continental officer
qualified militia officer
neighborhood
muster the recruits
pay
remitted to them
small detachment
rations
delivered to them
receiving the difference between the old and the new in money
Congress will raise this ration at their next meeting
very heavy expense without its having been called for by the soldiery or indeed being necessary
addition of bread
vinegar
soap
form of enlistment
to furnish 20,000 troops with the extra half gill of whiskey or rum only will cost the United States about 60,000 dollars per annum.