1To Alexander Hamilton from Mahlon Ford, 22 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received you r orders this morning I shall immediately march to join my Command, & obey your orders— I am Sir Your Obedt Servt ( ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
2To Alexander Hamilton from Mahlon Ford, 20 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I see in the Tren Town Newspaper, that the Secretary of War orders the Officers of the first Regt. of Artillrs & Engrs. to make Report to you, of the reason of their absence from their Commands. I should have ere this have been with mine but since I have received Genl. Pinckney’s Letter informing me where I should be stationed, I have been very unwell with the Disentary, but am so well that in...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Mahlon Ford, 4 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Fort Norfolk [ Virginia ] April 4, 1800 . “… such a picture of destruction, I never saw at any post, when I took the Command—and in endeavouring to remedy it I have affronted the late Commanding Officer, who was Capt Blackburn (who knows nothing about Military Matters and never will, as he says himself, he only serves for the lo[a]ves and Fishes) in such a manner, that I was reduced, either to...