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To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 3 July 1800

From John F. Hamtramck1

Pittsburgh, July 3, 1800. Complains that when marching “at the head of a Column commanding a platoon, with the Music Before me” he could not make his orders heard over the noise of the band. States he “once … made my Sword perform the Duties of a Telegraphe” and proposes that “uniform Signals” be “established through the army.”

ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

1. Hamtramck was a lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment of Infantry and was stationed at Pittsburgh.

This letter was incorrectly addressed to H as inspector general of the Army, a position he no longer held. See H to Ebenezer Stevens, July 1, 1800, note 3.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 3 July 1800
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    3 July 1800

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Hamtramck, 3 July 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-25-02-0009. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25, July 1800 – April 1802, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977, p. 7.]

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