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State of the Arms Accoutrements & Ammunition in Lt. Colo. Hamiltons Battalion of Light Infantry, 24 September 1781

State of the Arms Accoutrements & ammunition in
Lt. Colo. Hamiltons Battalion of Light Infantry1

September 24th 1781

Musquetts Swords Bayonets Cartridge Boxes Gun Slings Gun Worms Screw Drivers Brushes and
Prickers		 Drums Fifes Flints Cartridges
Good 230 2 232 238 114 10 18 10 2 2 577 8688
Bad 7 5 3 1 10 200
Wanting 1 9 1 121 23 220 228 1 2 127 632
Total 238 11 238 238 238 33 238 238 4 4 724 9220

Ale Hamilton
Lt Col Comt

DS, Harvard College Library.

1. On July 31, 1781, H had obtained command of a battalion for the Yorktown campaign. See “General Orders,” July 31, 1781 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , II, 658).

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    “State of the Arms Accoutrements & Ammunition in Lt. Colo. Hamiltons Battalion of Light Infantry, 24 September 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0070. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 419.]