From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Hugh Hughes, 27 February 1781
To Colonel Hugh Hughes
[New Windsor, New York] February 27, 1781. “I thank you for the Trouble you have taken about the Horses.1 Our Journey is postpon’d, but is Still in Contemplation.2 When we do set out I shall be obliged to depend on the Public for Horses, as mine were so low that I do not intend to bring them from above3 ’till near the opening of the Campaign.…”
LC, New-York Historical Society, New York City.
1. See Hughes to H, February 16, 1781 (printed in this volume).
2. See George Washington to President of Congress, February 26, 1781 ( , XXI, 300–02).
3. See H to Timothy Pickering, February 9, 1781 (printed in this volume).