Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.
A request for supplies for a regiment of infantry. Makes reference to knapsacks, canteens, General Hamilton and a paymaster of the regiment. Notes that the above deficiencies are stated on a return received from General Hamilton
William Bass for John Harris received of Frederick Rupp two trumbills and one traveling forge said to contain sundries agreeable to invoice received at Reading of Lieutenant House of Captain Elliott's Company.
Ellery notes practice of officers equipping their men out of pocket, Sec. of War is reluctant to endorse the practice, and wishes to avoid the expectation of reimbursement. Suggests commanders gain the consent of their regiments to pay for supplies "beyond the public provisions" with a portion of the soldiers' pay; asks that the recipients circulate the idea. Also directs commanders of posts, etc. to include in their monthly returns not only the number of men under their command, but the original units from which the men are detached.
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.
Circular to the Commandants of Regiments: Officers who have purchased articles to equip their men cannot expect to be reimbursed but if the regimental commandants would agree to donate part of their pay for this purpose, they would provide an essential service to the army.
