After discussing the status of Mr. Roulstone and the recommendation of Mr. Boyle, Hamilton reviews the instructions regarding the use of money intended for the recruitng service. During the winter he intends to review a system of tactics and discipline and attend to the formation of a regiment.
Certification of payment; $182.24 to Ebenezer Stevens, Agent for the War Department at New York for paying sundry artificers belonging to detachment 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers under Lieutenant Nathaniel Leonard.
Encourages Count Rumford to revisit his native country - the United States - and insists that he will be well-received. Discusses the military academy and states that he has been authorized to offer him the position of Inspector General of the Artillery
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning soldiers and Army supplies, quarters, and pay
Expresses desire that he return to his native country to be welcomed openly. Requests his service in American military, particularly to command a military academy with the appointment of Inspector General of the United States.
The Secretary of War has directed Lewis to enclose the bill of lading of two brass field pieces, six-pounders (condemned) for Hodgdon to take the measure of upon their arrival.
Murray expresses his concern for Banger who ran away from death not realizing that, when commissioned to take him, death can run faster than he can. The citizens of Philadelphia seem to be flying in every direction to escape the yellow fever and he is happy that Hodgdon believes that their fears are groundless. The governor's sister is miserable because she has heard nothing from him (possibly Governor Sargent, Murray's brother-in-law?)
Swan has not disposed of the $4,000 and cannot provide Hodgdon with a draft.
In the final paragraph, Swan is referring to yellow fever, raging in Philadelphia. When as the rest of the department relocated to Trenton, Hodgdon took pride in the fact that he stayed behind, which Swan considered dangerous.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline
"I received your favor of the 22d July and am pleased with the hopes of greater uniformity in the clothing in future. The Indians in this quarter seem much dissatisfied at the promises made them by the Secretary of War, that the Governor fo the Territory should be at Detroit in the course of the present summer to redress any complaints (many of which they have) which might be laid before him and attend to the equal and just distribution of their annual presents..."
