Alexander Hamilton

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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/15/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/13/1799 Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/12/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/12/1799 Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/10/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/09/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/08/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
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RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
06/07/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Printed Versions
RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
07/06/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Printed Versions
RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers
06/07/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Printed Versions
RE Administration of Individual officers and Soldiers
08/21/1799 Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldier
Printed Versions
RE Administation of Individual Officers and Soldiers
11/13/1799 Letter Signed
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
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Rations and Winter Quarters for 1799
07/16/1799 Letter Signed
McHenry discusses plans for contracts for supplying rations to the Army and proposals for winter quarters of the troops
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Ragged Appearance of the Recruits & Promotion of Wilkinson
06/25/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
General Washington observes that the recruiting service would be enhanced if clothing were available for the recruits. He approves the promotion of James Wilkinson to Major General and reviews the …
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Questions Affecting the Legality of the General Court Martial
01/21/1799 Letter Signed
McHenry has two questions bearing on the legality of the General Court Martial: Can the Commandant of a Port or Garrison , where there a sufficient number of officers, order a General Court Martial? …
Alexander Hamilton Papers
Questioned Literacy of Officers
11/25/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
McHenry questions the validity of James Hamtramck's assertion that a number of officers do not know the "common rules of arithmatic and how to write." Hamtramck should be required to name those …
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Quelling the Insurrection in Pennsylvania
03/22/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
McHenry discusses possible military responses to the apparent insurrection in Pennsylvania.
Alexander Hamilton Papers
Quarters at Fort Jay
02/11/1799 Autograph Document
Routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
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Quarterly Returns
07/26/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Major Craig forwards a quarterly return of military stores to Major General Hamilton.
Isaac Craig Papers
Punishment for Desertion
10/04/1799 Autograph Letter
Hall ruminates on the possible punishments for desertion. He argues that death is too harsh for simple desertion and should be reserved for deserting one's post in the face of the enemy.
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Providing and Issuing Military Supplies
08/20/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Wilkins presents his plan for providing and issuing military supplies. He asserts that the Quartermaster Genral and Commissary of Military Stores are qualifed to be the best judges of the quality of …
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Protection of the Prisoners at Norris Town
09/13/1799 Letter Signed
"I herewith transmit you a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Navy of this date requesting that the Marine Guard at Norris Town may be relieved by a competent number of infantry of the Army. …
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Protecting the Surveyors
04/11/1799 Letter Signed
Since the party of troops ordered to assist the Surveyor General in marking the boundary lines designated by the Treaty of Greenville has refused to do so, McHenry orders that a military escort be …
Alexander Hamilton Papers
Proposed Organization of the Four Old Regiments
11/21/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
General Wilkinson warns Hamilton that he fears that the proposed organization of the four old regiments will be cut up on grounds too frivolous to render them effective.
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Promotions Frequently Prove More Injurious than Advantageous
02/02/1799 Autograph Letter Signed
Due to the unsettled state of the military establishment, Hamtramck does not want to be promoted if it is only a temporary measure that could harm his career.
Alexander Hamilton Papers