HAMILTON, Alexander. Letter signed ("A Hamilton ") as Inspector General of the Army, to Samuel Hodgson, New York, 13 January 1800. 2 pages, 4to, double matted and enclosed in a fine giltwood frame. HAMILTON AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE PROVISIONAL ARMY DURING THE QUASI WAR WITH FRANCE A letter written only a month after the death of George Washington, who had exerted such powerful influence on Hamilton's early rise to power. "For twenty-two years, their careers had been yoked together," writes Chernow ( Alexander Hamilton , p.600). Hamilton had retired from his post of Treasury Secretary in 1795, returning to the practice of law in New York. During the election of 1796, he working energetically behind the scenes to prevent John Adams from becoming President. In 1798, when war with France appeared likely in the aftermath of the XYZ Affair, President Adams, at the urging of Washington--and in spite of his deepening distrust of Hamilton--named him Inspector General of the Army, with rank of Major General. Washington reluctantly came out of retirement to command the new provisional army being raised: "Hamilton flung himself into the gargantuan task of organizing an army with unflagging energy," writes Chernow, and the same meticulous concern for detail he showed while Secretary of the Treasury is evident in this letter regarding quartermaster issues: "...Captain Brock commands the detachment which was formerly commanded by Major Bradley. It consists, according to the last return, of [249] men, and the requisition of clothing did not appear to me to apply merely to his particular company, but to embrace the whole detachment. You will now be able to judge whether a sufficient supply has been sent on, and take measures accordingly...."
HAMILTON, Alexander. Letter signed ("A Hamilton ") as Inspector General of the Army, to Samuel Hodgson, New York, 13 January 1800. 2 pages, 4to, double matted and enclosed in a fine giltwood frame. HAMILTON AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE PROVISIONAL ARMY DURING THE QUASI WAR WITH FRANCE A letter written only a month after the death of George Washington, who had exerted such powerful influence on Hamilton's early rise to power. "For twenty-two years, their careers had been yoked together," writes Chernow ( Alexander Hamilton , p.600). Hamilton had retired from his post of Treasury Secretary in 1795, returning to the practice of law in New York. During the election of 1796, he working energetically behind the scenes to prevent John Adams from becoming President. In 1798, when war with France appeared likely in the aftermath of the XYZ Affair, President Adams, at the urging of Washington--and in spite of his deepening distrust of Hamilton--named him Inspector General of the Army, with rank of Major General. Washington reluctantly came out of retirement to command the new provisional army being raised: "Hamilton flung himself into the gargantuan task of organizing an army with unflagging energy," writes Chernow, and the same meticulous concern for detail he showed while Secretary of the Treasury is evident in this letter regarding quartermaster issues: "...Captain Brock commands the detachment which was formerly commanded by Major Bradley. It consists, according to the last return, of [249] men, and the requisition of clothing did not appear to me to apply merely to his particular company, but to embrace the whole detachment. You will now be able to judge whether a sufficient supply has been sent on, and take measures accordingly...."
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