Rice believes that a district deposit of clothing and issue thereof is the best mode of proceeding and notes that Jackson has said that one-quarter of the coats he contracted for will soon be ready for delivery. He wants to know where he can apply for arms and recommends Lieutenant Daniel Hastings for the post of regimental quartermaster.
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 the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
According to the Secretary of War, Stevens, as Agent of the War Department, is to perform the duties of the Quartermaster General, the Clothier General, and the Commissary of Military Stores. Hamilton explains to Stevens what those duties entail.
Payment to Thomas Fisher for riding express per order of the Quarter Master General on various routes. Hodgdon notes to Miller that he has settled with Mr. Fisher.
Certification of payment; $9.37 to Private John Lewis, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, pay up to his discharge for inability, including pay and subsistence traveling from West Point to the place of his residence.
Certification of payment; $4123.93 to William Levereth, Contractor for rations, hospital, quartermaster stores, sundry articles of clothing furnished Lieutenant Nathan Leonard, his waiter Joseph York and recruits, Windsor Vermont.
Certification of payment; $33.40 to Captain Andrew Nelson, 1st Grenadier Company, 1st Regiment Philadelphia Militia commanded by Colonel Francis Gurney and James M. Connell, his lieutenant, called into service to suppress insurrection in western counties of Pennsylvania, for retained rations.
Informs the Supervisor at New York that the Treasurer will remit him the sum of 436 dollars for Ebenezer Stevens, Agent of the War Department at New York, for the pay of Capt. Frye, Lt. Dayton, and surgeon's mate Osborne.
Forwards a letter showing how he has settled the account of an assistant, now discharged, at Springfield [Armory]. Discusses recommendations for the appointment of several officers. Recommends that a laboratory, powder house, and warehouses be erected near Philadelphia, that ammunition may be prepared and it and other military articles be stored nearby. Expects to be able to purchase land along the Schuylkill or Delaware Rivers with little trouble, and finds such locations advantageous since they are located along transportation routes. Says he will undertake the land purchase unless countermanded by Adams.
Letters have been transmitted to the Senators of each State apparently listing the names of the officers appointed from each State and asking for comments. Senators Watson and Laurence of New York have declined to respond due to the distance of their residences from each other.
