1From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 23 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 13th. instant reached me yesterday at this place. I approve the plan which you suggest for the subdivision of your State into districts and subdistricts. You will proceed accordingly. As soon as it shall be known who is the person nominated as Pay Master, the money and cloathing for commencing the recruiting service will be forwarded to him. This I very earnestly shall...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 23 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You are at liberty to make the Alteration as to the company Rendezvous suggested in your letter of the 19. Instant ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
3From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 31 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letters of the 25 of April and Eighth of May have remained till now unanswered there being nothing in them which required an immediate reply I am satisfied with the arrangements which they announce. I do not however observe that you have made communicated a definitive nomination of Quarter Master. One by this time has probably been resolved upon. I shall be glad to know the person. As...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 17 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of War has signified to me the confirmation of Lt Cooper as Qr. Master to your Regiment. The Purveyor of Supplies ( Mr. Tench Francis Esqr) is instructed to reimburse the expenditure for the articles which you mention to have been procured. For this purpose, you will transmit to to him to the Purveyor him the vouchers of the purchases, and their cost and to the Superintendant of...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 2 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received through the Secy. of War returns from Majors Beall & Hopkins to the 12th. & 15th. of June. This channel of conveyance is doubly irregular, as the Secy. of War is made the Organ, & as you are not . You will inform the Gentlemen that their Returns are to be made to you—and of Course you will make your returns to me With great consideration &c (Copy, in the handwriting of...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 10 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
A reply is due to some points in your letters of the 25 & 30 of June. It was foreseen that the narrowing of the description of characters who might be enlisted might would impede the progress of the recruiting service; but it is deemed better to submit to this inconvenience than to mingle in the mass of our force elements of disaffection & disorder. The plan is therefore to be sincerely &...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 19 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you inclosed an applicatio n of one James Hamilton, for the discharge of — Apprentice—enlisted by Lt. Alexander of your Regiment— You will please to enquire — the fact, and observe that if true the general regulation requires his discharge— With great consideration ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
8From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 21 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the fourteenth of this month. It is doubtful with me whether a ge regimental Court martial is competent to try for the crime of desertion—You must will therefore take care of keep in confinement the persons mentioned in your letter untill the circumstances of the regiment are so changed such that a general Court Martial can be convened. I shall give orders for...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 14 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received Your letter of the eleventh of this month has been delivered to me. I approve the exertions you have made for the apprehension of the deserters, but doubt very much, the efficacy of the punishment of hard labour. However, if a Court Martial should shall be disposed to try that such an expedient, I shall will not object to the measure. I have heretofore spoken to you on of the...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 19 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the fifteenth instant has been delivered to me. I approve the measures you have taken on the subject of desertion. It is left with you to Your prudence, on which I entirely rely, will determine how long some of the precautions such as the nocturnal roll calls can be continued without harrassing the soldiery And producing disagreeable impressions on their minds. I have to inform...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 15 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I ha You have already been instructed to put your regiment under marching orders. They will immediately proceed to their destination on the Potowmack in the vicinity of Harpers ferry, taking the route by Frederick Town. The contractors on the road will furnish you with the necessary supplies. I am advised that an advance of two months pay will be forwarded as soon as the forms of office can be...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 24 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just recd. yr. letter of the 20th inst. I can only lament, that notwithstandg. the assurances made to me both verbally and by letter, and may very urgent & reiterated remonstrances requisitions a the transmission of money for your regiment experiences a so painful a delay— I ne hope nevertheless that by this time effectual measures have been taken to obviate complaints of that kind, I...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 31 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your several letters of the eighteenth of September, and of the fourth, fifth and twelfth of October. The enquiries which they cou at present have, I believe, been previous incidentally answered in previous communications. I decline appointing a Court Martial on the men case mentioned in your letter of the fourth instant, as you will soon have reached the place of winter...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 8 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the third instant with it’s enclosures. The proper accomm hutts arrangements for hutting at Harper’s ferry will have been, before this, so far advanced that it will be proper to for you to proceed immediately to that place. The affair of pay has, I trust, been settled before now. I can not help thinking that the route which has heretofore prescribed to you by...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 8 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Jany. 6th. with the enclosed arrangement of the Officers of your Regiment, which is approved and returned to you. Levi Hillary is placed as fifth 2d. Lieutenant, that being the grade to which he was appointed, in case of his acceptance, by an arrangement of the War Department— With— ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
16From Alexander Hamilton to Josias Carvel Hall, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received you r letter of the seventh of February. The National legislature having taken the subject of recruiting into under their consideration I have no communications, at present, to make respecting it thought proper to postpone defer till the event shall be known any further communication on that subject with tru e considertn & ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church and Thomas...