Recruiting Instructions for Captain Jedediah Rodgers
Document 1792Recruiting Instructions for Captain Jedediah Rodgers, appointed to command a troop of light dragoons in service of United States. Principal rendezvous point at West Point New York.
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Document Signed
Description
Recruiting Instructions for Captain Jedediah Rodgers, appointed to command a troop of light dragoons in service of United States. Principal rendezvous point at West Point New York.
Date
05/07/1792
Author
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1792050700002
Notable persons
Captain Jedediah Rodgers
Henry Knox
President of the United States
Troop of Light Dragoons
contractor
cavalry
active, healthy, young men
public at large
physician
surgeon
non-commissioned officers
sergeant
corporal
Contractor at West Point
officers
commanding officer
vagrant, or transient person
musicians
Notable locations
New York
Connecticut
West Point
United States
Philadelphia
War Office
Notable items
Service of the United States
recruiting service
principal rendezvous
rations, barracks, barrack utensils, straw and fuel
medicinal assistance
recruiting service
individuals, abused
recruits
desert
unsuitable persons
unfit for the hardships incident to a military life
recruiting officer
peculiar talents
officer
conduct himself with candor, integrity and industry
errors
instructions
general rules and principles
enlisted for three years
bounty of eight dollars
enlisted and sworn before a magistrate
fidelity
allowed the sum of two dollars, for the trouble and expense of instilling each recruit
allowance
state
recruited
fairness
state of intoxication
healthy, robust, and sound in his limbs and body
thoroughly examined
secret disease
cure
rules and articles of war
mutiny and desertion
administration of justice
act of Congress
rations
clothing
compensation in cases of disability
pay
oath
years of age
no Negro, mulatto, or Indian to be recruited
marching
desert
reimburse out of this pay
taught, by gentle methods, regularity of conduct
cleanliness
diet
rooms
due subordination
exercised
attitudes and on the first principles of a soldier
rendezvous
return of the number of recruits
next post
supplies for the troops
daily returns
instructions are to regulate the conduct of the field officers and all others
subalterns
orders
mustered
critically inspected
clothing, arms and accoutrements
company
want of due industry
blank enlistments
excellent characters