General orders. The Commander in Chief submits it to the Brigadiers General.

Bifolium 12½" x 8", 3 paragraphs of text beneath the running head, signed at the end in manuscript, "Sol Van Rensselaer" as Adjutant-General, with the additional postscript "In disposition of the Adjt. General has delayed those orders." Pp. [2-4] are blank, save for the postal address on the verso of the integral leaf with Albany postmark of July 12, the notation "Military //" in the upper corner, and addressed to Brig. Genl. Benjamin Moores / Clinton County." An order calling for review and inspection of the "regiments and corps" of the state militia, to which Van Rensselaer adds "a fervent wish, that the militia of his country may so progress in the acquisition of the military art, as to render standing armies forever unnecessary, and enable themselves by their own exertions to be the safeguards and protectors of the rights of freemen." Moores was a lieutenant in the New York militia, was the sheriff of Clinton County, and a presidential elector in 1808. Van Rensselaer was Adjutant General of New York from 1801 to 1809, 1810 to 1811, and 1813 to 1821. Not in OCLC.…