ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



men, 25 ; action in the House of Representa- 

 tives, 25 ; order of Secretary of War to enlist, 

 26; movements in various States under the 

 order, 26 ; General Thomas sent to the South- 

 west, 26 ; his speech to the troops, 26 ; its ef- 

 fects, 26 ; orders of General Banks to raise a 

 corps d'Afrique, 27 ; order of the Secretary of 

 War to systematize the enlistment, 27 ; General 

 Thomas again sent Southwest, 27; new policy, 

 28; recruiting in States exempted from the 

 emancipation proclamation, 28 ; how managed, 

 28 ; number of colored soldiers, 28 ; pay, 28 ; 

 officers, 28 ; character of the troops, 28 ; bra- 

 very, 28 ; testimony of General Banks, 28 ; do. 

 of General Hunter, 29. 



Invalid corps, 29 ; its object, 29 ; numbers, 

 29 ; examination of officers, 29. 



Ambulance corps, 29; orders for, 29; or- 

 ganization, 30. 



Signal corps, 30 ; telegraph corps, 80 ; pen- 

 sioners, 30 ; expenditures for fortifications, 80 ; 

 army material provided, 30; ordnance mate- 

 rial on hand, 80 ; officers relieved, 81 ; army 

 corps commanders, 81 ; departments, 81 ; offi- 

 cers of the army, 32, 33 ; casualties, 83. 



IV. Number of men called out during the 

 year, 32; order of President Lincoln relative 

 to the draft, 33 ; proclamation of action of Con- 

 gress, 33 ; the number required in 1864, 33 ; 

 strength of the army, 33 ; statement of Senator 

 Wilson, 33 ; do. of Solicitor Whiting, 34 ; re- 

 sults of recruiting, 34 ; statement of Provost- 

 Marshal-General, 84 ; hundred days' men, 34 ; 

 instructions issued to enlisting officers, 34 ; re- 

 cruiting agents to insurrectionary States, 34; 

 action of State Governors, 34 ; letter of Gen- 

 eral Sherman, 35 ; result, 35 ; enlistment of 

 recruits in Europe charged, 35 ; action of Con- 

 gress on the subject, 35 ; answer of the Secre- 

 tary of State, 35 ; colored soldiers put on the 

 same footing as white troops, 36 ; also have 

 the same pay and bounty, 36 ; number of col- 

 ored troops, 36 ; opinions as to their value 

 as soldiers, 36; action of Adjutant-General 

 Thomas, 36; desertions, 37; different classes, 

 37 ; operations of the Quartermaster's Depart- 

 ment, 37 ; hospitals, 87 ; pay of privates, 38 ; 

 Veteran Reserve Corps, 38; pensioners, 38; 

 ordnance made during the year, 38 ; military 

 departments, 38; army corps, 39; casualties, 

 39 ; enrolment and draft, 39 ; acts of Congress 

 relative to, 39 ; proceedings, 39, 40 ; principles 

 upon which conducted, 40. 



V. Available force at the beginning of the 

 year, 80 ; the draft, 30 ; additional acts of Con- 

 gress, 80 ; proclamation of the President, 30 ; 

 opinion of the Attorney-General, 30 ; strength 

 of the force in May, 30 ; result of the Decem- 

 ber call, 30 ; payment of bounties, 81 ; aggre- 

 gate quotas charged against the several States, 

 81 ; number of troops furnished by States, 81 ; 

 do. under different calls, 31 ; reenlistments, 31 ; 

 colored troops, 32 ; number in the service, 32 ; 

 applicants for commissions in these organiza- 

 tions, 32 ; order suspending drafting and re- 

 cruiting, 32 ; order reducing expenses, 32 ; 

 proceedings, 33 ; rapidity of disbanding the 

 army, 33 ; subsequent organization of the army, 



34 ; another project, 34 ; forces in the service 

 at the close of the year, 34 ; operations of the 

 Paymaster's Department, 35 ; disbursements, 

 85 ; losses, 35 ; operations of the Quartermas- 

 ter's Bureau, 35 ; supplies furnished during the 

 year, 85 ; cavalry-horses, 35 ; record of persons 

 buried, 35 ; hospitals, 35 ; sea-coast defences, 

 86; Ordnance Department, 86; signal corps, 

 86 ; officers retained in the regular army, 36 ; 

 do. volunteer officers, 87. 



VI. Troops in service, 30 ; progress of dis- 

 banding, 30 ; measures of Congress regulating 

 the military establishment, 30 ; letter of Gen- 

 eral Grant relative to the army bills before 

 Congress, 30 ; action of Congress, 31 ; the 

 military establishment of the country as reor- 

 ganized, 32 ; commanding officers of the new 

 regiments of cavalry, infantry, and reserve 

 corps, 32 ; designations of regiments, 32 ; mili- 

 tary departments of the country, 33 ; assign- 

 ment of the military bands, 34; lieutenant- 

 generalship, 34 ; movements of troops, 34 ; 

 estimates of expenditures, 34 ; appropriations, 



35 ; bounty to volunteers, 35 ; grand aggregate 

 of individuals on the pension-roll, 35 ; report 

 of Commissioner of Pensions, 35 ; Bureau of 

 Military Justice, 36 ; Quartermaster's Depart- 

 ment, 36 ; Subsistence Department, 36 ; Medi- 

 cal Department, 36 ; distribution of artificial 

 limbs, 37 ; cemeteries, 37 ; sanitary measures, 

 87 ; engineer corps, 37 ; Ordnance Department, 

 37 ; supplies during the war, 37 ; breech-load- 

 ing muskets, 38 ; cannon, endurance of, 38 ; 

 stock of war equipage, 38 ; West Point Acad- 

 emy, 39 ; a board to report on infantry tactics, 

 39 ; system of General Upton, 39. 



VII. Total strength, September 30, 56 ; 

 orders for reduction, 56 ; maximum strength, 



