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 courts-martial and infractions of military discipline and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
William S. Smith assures Hamilton that the troops have been put through the funeral exercise and everyone involved in the ceremony is deeply impressed with the solemnity of the sad occasion.
Hamilton tells North that the artillery will remain on the island and the celebration of the day [of mourning for Washington] in New York will be followed according to the original plan.
While he was quartermaster at Niagara, McClallen purchased one horse from Mr. Clinch at that place and one from Doctor Coffin at Oswego. He does not recollect either transaction but if the bills were in favor of Dr. Coffin , the vouchers for the delivery should be available from Oswego. The other horse should be included in the quartermaster's return from Niagara.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Lt. Col. William S. Smith discusses his plans for a monument to the memory of General Washington, with an inscription of a poem penned by him the previous night: "Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, General of the Armies of the United States of America, Who paid the Great Debt of Nature, The 14th. of December, 1799. To Commemorate his virtues. To hand down to Posterity, The Great, The dignified Character of Their Exalted Chief, The Commandant And Officers of the Union Brigade, With Solemn Minds, With Mourning Souls, Erect This Monument..."
Certification of payment; $220 to Doctor James Hall, for medicine and attendance on Captain Ebenezer Massey and Doctor John Lynch, 1st Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers and troops stationed at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania. agreeably to report of Doctor Shippen.
