War Department. April 20. 1799. Sir, I received this afternoon your letter dated the [undecipherable] instant, containing a circumstantial detail of the operations of the forces under your Command since the 8^th instant. It is pleasing to learn, that tranquillity and submission to the laws, are so far re-established in the late disaffected Counties as in your opinion, to admit of the removal of the Volunteers, and Militia. You will therefore be pleased to direct their return to the places, whence they have been respectively drawn, with all convenient expedition. Being of your opinion, that it will answer salutary purposes, to continue the regular Troops, for some time, near to, or in, those parts of the Country, which were recently most disaffected, I leave it to you, to assign to them, such positions, as may in your Judgment appear best calculated, as well for their mutual safety, and support, as to keep down the spirit of Insurrection which might re-appear, if these were also, to be immediately withdrawn. I request you to make known to the Gentlemen composing the Volunteer and Militia Detachments, the high satisfaction experienced, from the manner in which they have conducted themselves on this expedition, and the grateful sense which must be retained, for the personal sacrifices made by Individuals so important in the community, to re-establish among a deluded portions of their fellow Citizens, a love of Order, and obedience to the laws, and that I shall not fail, to make known to the President, their patriotic conduct, and sacrifices. The Troops from Windsor Vermont will halt at Easton, where they will expect to receive your Orders. You will make all necessary arrangements, with the Contractor, to supply the whole of the Troops, which will remain near the late scene of Insurrections. I shall forward an Express on Monday with all the Letters for the Army, which may be in the Office. The letters you allude to in your postscript, were entrusted to an Express sent by the Contractor. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most ob: very hble. Serv: sign'd. James McHenry Brigadier General William Macpherson.