1From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Cases, every day, occur to shew the immense inconvenience of being obliged to resort, for all articles of military supply, to the seat of government. The good of the service appears to me indispensibly to require the establishment of magazines in the great military districts with a small supply of the articles of constant necessity. This would obviate many difficulties, and produce, as I see,...
2From Alexander Hamilton to James Read, 19 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I shall defer settling the relative Rank of the Captains only, untill all the officers of your Regiment can be included in the arrangement, I wish you to state to me for effecting which, I request ———— your opinion as to the merit of the different officers and that you would at the same time state the particular reasons for the alterations in the rank of the Captains, as contained in your...