Transmitting New Recruiting Instructions, Etc.
Document 1799The new recruiting instructions should be transmitted as early as possible to the officers who are enlisting men for the regiments of Artillery and the four old regiments of Infantry. Contractors should also be notified of the law altering the ration.
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Type
Letter Signed
Description
The new recruiting instructions should be transmitted as early as possible to the officers who are enlisting men for the regiments of Artillery and the four old regiments of Infantry. Contractors should also be notified of the law altering the ration.
Date
05/11/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1799051100000
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
James McHenry
Officers who enlisting men
regiments of Artillery
four old regiments of Infantry
several Contractors
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
new recruiting instructions
names and places of rendezvous
list sometime since I sent you
law making an alteration in the ration