Preparation for an Expedition Against Insurgents
Document 1799McHenry directs Hamilton to begin preparations for a military expedition against insurgents defying the laws of the United States in western Pennsylvania. He prefers the use of volunteer companies and regulars to militia whose members need to tend to their farms.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
McHenry directs Hamilton to begin preparations for a military expedition against insurgents defying the laws of the United States in western Pennsylvania. He prefers the use of volunteer companies and regulars to militia whose members need to tend to their farms.
Date
03/15/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1799031500000
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
James McHenry
insurgents
volunteer companies
volunteers from the City of Philadelphia
militia
Brigadier General McPherson
Company at Pittsburgh
Captain Shoemaker of the Infantry
recruits
Captain Irvine
company of Artillerists and Engineers
artillerists from Fort Mifflin
Lieutenant Boote
Quartermaster General
Colonel Stevens
Contractor at New York
Mahlon Ford
Notable locations
War Department
Counties of Northhampton, Montgomery, and Bucks in Pennsylvania
Frederick Town, Maryland
Carlisle
rendezvous at Reading
West Point
Eastern Northampton County
New York
Newtown, Bucks County
Jersey, near MorrisTown
Bethlehem
Notable items
proclamation of the President
combination to defeat the execution of the laws
valuation of lands and dwelling houses
treason
overt acts of levying war against the United States
military force
their respective abodes
farms
husbandry might suffer
presence of a body of regulars
fears of the insurgents
means of transportation
quarters
rations
tents