To Alexander Hamilton from Colonel Alexander Scammell, [January 1778]
From Colonel Alexander Scammell1
[Valley Forge, January, 1778]
Dear Sir,
Enclosed2 is the remaining part of the Instructions first given to the Officers superintending Hospitals when the[y] were sent off, which I forgot to give you last Evening, when I gave you the first part. The additional Instructions which I gave last evening are all copied off, ready to be sent to the Office⟨rs⟩ at the several Hospitals.
Please to inform me, whether they are agreable to the Genl or whether he has any thing further to insert.
Yr Very Humble Servt
Alexd Scammell AGl
ALS, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
1. This letter is addressed to “Colo Hamilton or [Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson] Harrison.”
Scammell had been appointed adjutant general of the Continental Army on the staff of Washington on January 5, 1778.
2. The enclosure, a contemporary copy consisting of three MS pages and located in the George Washington Papers, Library of Congress, gives regulations for patients, equipment, deaths, and recoveries. This enclosure is printed in , X, 405–07 and is dated January [30?] 1778.