Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Certification of payment; 218.83 pay to detachment 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Mifflin under command of Captain Ebenezer Massey, for pay and forage.
Refers to court proceedings for Lieutenant James Triplett. States that it is proper for the US to provide barracks for officers, distinguishing between captain and field officer. Requests information about proposals.
McHenry instructs Harris to notify the quartermaster general in writing anytime ordered articles are ready, that arrangements for their transport can be made.
Amidst a discussion of a number of accounting matters, Ernest surmises that of the $180 advanced by Hodgdon to Bradshaw and Cook, $108 is intended for their families in Philadelphia.
Williams lists the quantity and tonnage of rolled iron he will require for sundry purposes at the Springfield Armory. He emphasizes the pressing need for iron at this factory and urges Hodgdon to forward it soon.
Mackey notes that the upper level of the Potomac River is now marked and preliminary steps for digging have already begun with over one hundred men employed in that effort.
Captain Guion discusses his paymaster's account which was complicated by the violent theft of the original bills from the express on his way from Loftus Heights. The replacement bills should be honored while the original bills, having been stolen, should not be honored.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Contract between Jebediah Huntington, collector of the District of New London Connecticut and John and Amos Woodward for rations for troops in New London Connecticut.
