Recruiting instructions and officer appointments
Document 1799Discusses recruiting instructions and officer appointments.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Discusses recruiting instructions and officer appointments.
Date
03/10/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799031040001
Page start
1
Note
Private
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
Lear
[John Adams]
officers
recruits
Notable locations
New York
France
Notable items
a rule to forward f rom your department to the Major Generals, as they are passed, copies of all laws respecting the military establishment
oblige me
session
recruiting instructions
manuscript
term of enlistment is five years
law for augmenting the army
enlistment to be for and during the continuance of the existing differences between the U states & the French Republic
new revision of the recruiting instructions
field officers
stations or destinations to which they have been assigned
courts martial
power of the regulation
organization of the officers as reported by the Commander in Chief
it was an arrangement or distribution of the officers who were nominated into Regiments battalions and companies assigning to each company by their
regimental pay masters
quarter masters
designated without delay
proper organs through which all issues of monies & supplies ought to pass
late war
Q master & Adjutant were appointed by the commander of the regiment
paymaster was designated by the officers of each regiment
direct the field officers of each regiment to report for the consideration of the President an arrangement of the relative rank of their officers in
officers
not yet appointed
facilitate future operations.