An explosion anywhere could injure and discredit the service.
Item
Type
Autograph Draft Document
Title
An explosion anywhere could injure and discredit the service.
Description
Hamilton decries the inefficiency that has caused delays in the payment of the troops resulting in mutinous discontent among two regiments. He confirms his support of established rules but also notes that circumstances sometimes require the violation of said rules. The soldiery should not suffer a deprivation of pay simply because the proper forms are not yet available.
year created
1799
month created
09
day created
21
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in collection
in publication
note
Cited in McHenry to Hamilton, 09/28/1799.
cited note
Cited document addressed to the War Office
notable person/group
James McHenry
Inspector General Alexander Hamilton
Commandant of the Regiment and the sugeon or person officiating in that capacity
twelfth and thirteenth regiments
Treasury Department
Paymaster General [Swan]
General Pinckney
notable location
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinatti
notable item/thing
mutiny
explosion
privation of pay
notable phrase
symptoms bordering on mutiny for the want of pay have been reported...in the twelfth and thirteenth regiments
discontents less turbulent have been communicated from several other quarters
an explosion anywhere would injure and discredit the service
strict adherence to general rules and to established forms
it is important to judge rightly when exceptions ought to be admitted
creation of a new army in which every officer...is of new appointment
law and instructions of the Treasury Department
pay of the troops shall be founded upon warrants of the Commanding General
the Paymaster General [Swan] was at Cincinnati and he had no deputy anywhere
no deputy attached to my command or to that of General Pinckney
muster and pay rolls are to be in certain precise forms prescribed by the Treasury
are the soldiery to suffer a privation of pay for several months because these forms...have not been fulfilled?
organs which depend on administrative authority must be instituted
document number
1799092140100
Item sets
Document instances
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Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Alexander Hamilton | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | James McHenry | [unknown] | [n/a] |