Special Session, [SENATE.] Executive, 



March, 1851. No. 1. 



REPORT 



THE SECRETARY OF WAR, 



COMMUNICATING, 



In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of the orders hy lohich 

 Brevet Colonel Plympton was assigned to duty according to his brevet 

 rank, together ivith the correspondence in relation thereto. 



March 1, 1851. 



Ordered to lie on the table. 



March 7, 1851. 



Ordered to be printed. 



War Department, 



Washington, February 28, 1851. 

 Sir: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 26th instant, 

 i have the honor to submit herewith " a copy of General Order No. 47, 

 '■ dated. 27th December, 1850, issued from the War Department, by which 

 ' Brevet Colonel J. Plympton, Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Infantry, was 

 ' assigned to duty according to his brevet rank, whilst stationed at JefFer- 

 ' son Barracks, and under which he w^as assigned to the command at that 

 ' post ; together with all correspondence and other documents connected 

 ' with said order." 



By virtue of this order, Colonel Fauntleroy, of the 1st Regiment of Dra- 

 goons, was superceded in the command of that post. Both these officers 

 are "in the line of the army ;" Colonel Fauntleroy is senior by ordinary 

 rank to Lieutenant Colonel Plympton, but the latter is superior by brevet 

 rank, and consequently, in the view of the Department, when assigned to 

 (hity according to that rank, became the superior of Colonel Fauntleroy. 

 The laws under which the above order was issued, were the Gist and 62d 

 Articles of War. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



C. M. CONRAD, 



Secretary of War. 

 Hon. Wm. R. King, 



President of the Senate. 



