Secure Order, Harmony, and Efficiency in the Service;
Document 1799Hamilton explains his version of the rules of practice for the Provisional Army.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Hamilton explains his version of the rules of practice for the Provisional Army.
Date
08/19/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799081960000
Note
Cited in Hamilton to McHenry, 08/27/1799. (Syrett listed this documents in the Appendix to vol. 23.)
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
James McHenry
Major Louis Tousard
commissioners at Fort Wolcott and Fort Adams
Major Daniel Jackson
Secretary of War [McHenry]
battalion which garrisons the posts from Connecticut northward
Quartermasters
Commissaries
Paymasters
Officers in the branches of Expenditure and Supply
Notable locations
New York
Boston
War Office
Notable items
copy of your General Order
allowance fixed by the regulation in the delivery and distribution of fuel and straw to the garrisons on the seacoast
avoid the increased expense
call upon the contractors to lay in adequate stores for the ensuing winter
preserve to superior officers the due respectablity of their stations
prevent ideas unfavorable to subordination
secure order harmony and efficiency in the service
expenditure and supply in its various branches
confine the communications of the Secretary of War to General Washington and the two Major Generals [Hamilton and Pinckney]
sudden and unforeseen emergencies
complaints by inferiors of injuries received
great care ought to be observed to address the Chief and not his subalterns