Management of Your Agency is Ridiculously Bad!
Document 1799Hamilton chastises McHenry for the inefficiency of the War Department in furnishing supplies. Delays attend every operation and articles are forwarded in a most incomplete manner. It is the Revolutionary War all over again only with caricature. It is truly farcical. The myopic eyes of the purveyors can see nothing beyond Philadelphia. Unless more competent agents can be found to procure and forward supplies, the service will suffer deeply
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Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hamilton chastises McHenry for the inefficiency of the War Department in furnishing supplies. Delays attend every operation and articles are forwarded in a most incomplete manner. It is the Revolutionary War all over again only with caricature. It is truly farcical. The myopic eyes of the purveyors can see nothing beyond Philadelphia. Unless more competent agents can be found to procure and forward supplies, the service will suffer deeply
Date
06/14/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Repository
Collection
Document number
1799061440101
Page start
1
Note
Marked "Private and Confidential"
Cited in McHenry to Hamilton, 06/15/1799
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
Colonel Stevens
Notable locations
New York
Philadelphia
Notable items
coats without a corresponding number of vests
cartouche boxes without belts
more efficient purveyor
more efficent superintendent
proof of the cordial friendship