Each Commandant will himself exercise his regiment...
Document 1799Circular to the Commandants of Regiments: Hamilton decries the practice of commandants and officers who relegate the crucial element of training troops to inferiors.
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Autograph Draft Document
Description
Circular to the Commandants of Regiments: Hamilton decries the practice of commandants and officers who relegate the crucial element of training troops to inferiors.
Date
08/09/1799
Author
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799080937000
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
commanders of regiments leaving too much to their majors, these to the adjustants and the company officers to their sergeants
each commandant will himself industriously exercise his regiment in the manual and evolutions
Notable locations
New York
Notable items
disciplining our troops as fast as they shall be raised
instructing their men from the beginning--using their noncommissioned officers as auxilaries not as their representatives or substitutes
double advantage of ensuring the rapid improvement of the soldiers and giving every officer practical expertness within his sphere
without which an army is nothing but a mass of disorderly elements
in the visits which I expect to make to the several corps I hope for the gratification of observing the proficiency of officers and men