Collection

• RE Courts-Martial and Military Discipline & Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay

• RE Army Recruiting

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting

• RE Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay

• RE Military Discipline, Army Recruiting, & Organization of Individual Regiments

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline, routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting and concerning the organization of individual regiments

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers

• RE Letter of Enclosure

  Routine letter of enclosure

• RE Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers

• Bentley Listed as Replying to McHenry's Circular of 7/13/1799

  Bentley is listed as replying to the Circular of 7/13/1799 in which McHenry asked for the details of each officer's military service which would be used in settling their relative rank.

• Baytop Listed as Replying to McHenry's Circular of 7/13/1799

  Baytop is listed as replying to the Circular of 7/13/1799 in which McHenry asked for the details of each officer's military service which would be used in settling their relative rank.

• Organization of Messes and Construction of Barracks

  Hamilton reports on improvements in the construction of chimneys, the arrangement of officers in messes, and the provision of fuel and straw in garrisons and quarters.

• Rules which are to regulate promotions should be fixed and promulgated.

  Hamilton insists on the necessity on having specific rules regulating promotions that apply to all regiments.

• RE Courts-Martial and Infractions of Military discipline

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline

• RE Individual Officers and Soldiers & Transfer of Army Units and Equipment

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and routine instructions concerning the transfer of Army units and equipment
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs McRee to expect payment from the Treasurer of the United States.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs Carrington that both Lt. Merriwether Lewis' receipt and William Fulcher's account were received.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons discusses the payment of the troops at Fort Twiggs with Major Freeman.
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  Letter from the Accountant of the War Department

  Simmons informs Stevens that Lt. George Izard's receipt was received.
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  Regarding Officer & Surgeon Appointments for 5th Regiment, & Pinckney's Request for Family Leave

  Informs Pinckney that the officers he recommended for the 5th Regiment have all been appointed, and sent notifications of that fact; at Pinckney's request, McHenry encloses duplicates of those letters of appointment. Promises to send a recommendation for a replacement officer to the president, as well as Lt. Col. Smith's recommendation for a regimental surgeon. Grants permission to Pinckney to travel with his wife to Rhode Island to restore her health, if Pinckney makes arrangements to avoid material injury to the service in his absence. McHenry will also bring this matter to the president's attention.
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  Appointments to Fill Vacancies in the Sixth Regiment

  Lists officer names and positions.

• Letter from Congressman Powell

  Letter from Congressman Leven Powell of Virginia to General George Washington. Image not available.

• Letter to Mr. Smith

  Letter from Henry Ludlow to William Smith. Image not available.

• [Untitled]

  Letter, Citation only
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  Prices of Musket Mounting

  Nicholson sends a list of the prices of Charlesville musket mounting. Prices of the brass mounting for British muskets are similar.
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  Claims on the Ground Along the Spring

  The agent is at Carlisle disposing of the lots and commons and there are a great many applications for lots. The people who claimed the ground along the spring now claim the Baker house and coal house and all the ground along the spring in front of the buildings. It was the great neglect of Captain Eames that allowed Wilson to get control of that land and Parker seeks instructions from Hodgdon as to how to proceed.

• Cited Document

  Cited letter or document; cited in Simmons to Freeman, 07/31/1799.