Fix everything as soon as it is in itself practicable.
Item
Type
Autograph Draft Document
Title
Fix everything as soon as it is in itself practicable.
Description
Hamilton discusses enlistment stategies, officers without commissions, stopping and examining boats on the Mississippi, and a suitable person to convey intelligence from Natchez to Knoxville.
year created
1799
month created
10
day created
20
author
sent from location
New York
recipient
in collection
in publication
notable person/group
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton
Paymaster General of the Western Army [Samuel C. Vance]
General Wilkinson
custom house officer established at Loftus's Height
Secretary of the Treasury [Oliver Wolcott, Jr.]
notable location
New York
outposts on the Mississippi
Natchez
Knoxville
Trenton
notable item/thing
bounty money
enlistment
clothing
commissions
habits of punctuality and strictness
boats
desertion
transmission of intelligence
notable phrase
...bounty money for a regiment complete for the double purpose of reenlisting those men whose time of service are expiring and of recruiting in addition equal to four companies
the enlistment of men within the scene has the double advantage of procuring soldiers enured to the climate and of saving expense for transportation
General Wilkinson states that the officers in general of his command are without commissions
they attach an artificial importance to the possession of the commissions and are apt to regard delay in furnishing it as injurious inattention to their feelings
it is both proper and necessary that all boats passing our outposts on the Mississippi should be stopped and examined
to prevent their being used as a medium of desertion and of injurious communication with our neighbors
document number
1799102040000
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Document names
| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Alexander Hamilton | New York | [n/a] |
| Recipient | James McHenry | [unknown] | [n/a] |