Alexander Hamilton Papers

General Orders, 17 March 1800

General Orders

[New York] March 17, 1800. Announces “Regulations respecting soldiers allowed to be taken from the line of the army to attend an officer.…”1

LC, RG 98, Post-Revolutionary War Commands, Castle Island Record, National Archives.

1. This document is the same as James McHenry to H, March 18, 1800, with the exception of the first paragraph of McHenry’s letter, which is paraphrased, and the final paragraph of McHenry’s letter, which is omitted.

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    General Orders, 17 March 1800
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    “General Orders, 17 March 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-24-02-0260. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 24, November 1799 – June 1800, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, p. 331.]