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Executive Department office of State 2 February 1804

Sir

On the 28^th instant I received official information from the
Secretary of the War department, that the President of the U, States
on the 15 instant had received authentic information that New Orleans
with its immeadiate dependencies was amicably given up
to the American Agents, in consequence of which the services of the
fifteen hundred men required from Tennessee would be
dispensed with - You will please without delay to cause
regular & proper Returns to be made to this office^department of all those
who have been regularly mustard & enrolled in companies agreably
to my instruction to the Brigadiers Generals, Issued on the November
last, in order that the same may be transmitted to the War office in due
time - The Mounted Infantry that proceeded on to Natchez, are all
on their return, and probably in a few days will reach their
respective homes - I am requested by the President of the U. States
to assure them that he feels the highest respect & regard for all of those
who was ready to render their services on at the call of their Country - Through
the extraordinary Wisdom and wise political conduct of the Executive of the U States
our General Government, their is an immense and almost boundless