Fix everything as soon as it is in itself practicable.
Document 1799Hamilton discusses enlistment stategies, officers without commissions, stopping and examining boats on the Mississippi, and a suitable person to convey intelligence from Natchez to Knoxville.
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Type
Autograph Draft Document
Description
Hamilton discusses enlistment stategies, officers without commissions, stopping and examining boats on the Mississippi, and a suitable person to convey intelligence from Natchez to Knoxville.
Date
10/20/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
New York
Collection
Document number
1799102040000
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
Paymaster General of the Western Army [Samuel C. Vance]
General Wilkinson
custom house officer established at Loftus's Height
Secretary of the Treasury [Oliver Wolcott, Jr.]
Notable locations
New York
outposts on the Mississippi
Natchez
Knoxville
Trenton
Notable items
bounty money
enlistment
clothing
commissions
habits of punctuality and strictness
boats
desertion
transmission of intelligence