ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



56; recruits, 56; desertions, 56; Bureau of 

 Confederate Archives, 56 ; estimate of appro- 

 priations, 56 ; disbursements of Paymaster- 

 General, 56; bounties, 5V; pension-rolls, 57; 

 Bureau of Military Justice, 57 ; operations of 

 Quartermaster's Department, 57 ; soldiers' 

 cemeteries, 57 ; indebtedness of Southern rail- 

 roads, 57 ; expenditures of Quartermaster, 58 ; 

 Subsistence Department, 58 ; subsistence fur- 

 nished to freedmen, 58 ; to Indians, 58 ; sut- 

 lers, 58; Surgeon-General's Department, 58; 

 resources, 58; cholera, 58; mortuary record, 

 58 ; mortality of the year, 58 ; Engineer 

 Corps, 58 ; surveys, 58 ; expenditures, 58 ; 

 Ordnance Department, 58 ; breech-loaders, 58 ; 

 heavy guns, 58 ; artillery school, 58 ; military- 

 signalling, 58 ; military districts, 59 ; opera- 

 tions in First District, 59 ; do. in Second, 59 ; 

 do. in Third, 59 ; do. in Fourth, 59 ; do. in 

 Fifth, 59; Division of the Missouri, 60; De- 

 partment of the Cumberland, 60 ; do. of the 

 Lakes, 60 ; do. of Washington, 60 ; Division 

 of the Pacific, 60 ; Department of the East, 60 ; 

 disposition and number of troops at the close 

 of the year, 60 ; Mr. Paine's bill to organize a 

 national militia, 60; appropriation bill sec- 

 tion relating to the authority of the General- 

 in-Chief, 244. 



VIII. Progress of its reduction, 40 ; its 

 strength, 41 ; expenses of the Department, 41 ; 

 do. Ordnance Department, 41 ; do. Commis- 

 sary, 41 ; bounties, 41 ; cost of reconstruction 

 at the South, 41 ; Quartermaster's Department, 

 41 ; Inspection Bureau, 41 ; Freedmen's Bu- 

 reau, 41 ; expenses, 41 ; cadet corps, 42 ; ar- 

 tillery school, 42 ; military telegraphy, 42 ; 

 changes of military districts, 42 ; troops, how 

 employed, 42 ; at the South, 43 ; dropping 

 officers, 43 ; gathering the remains of soldiers, 

 43 ; "grand reunion," 43. 



IX. Changes in "War Department, 30 ; mili- 

 tary departments, 30; military districts and 

 divisions, 31 ; reduction of the army, 31 ; re- 

 sults of the inspection service, 31 ; expendi- 

 tures of Quartermaster's Department, 31 ; En- 

 gineer Department, 32 ; proposed modifications 

 of sea-coast forts, 32 ; report of Congressional 

 Committee on ordnance, 33 ; signal-service, 

 33 ; operations of the Freedmen's Bureau, 3$, 

 34; bounties, 34; proposed reorganization of 

 the Military Academy, 34 ; expenditures of the 

 army, 34 ; pensions, 34 ; "Western Indians, pol- 

 icy of the Government toward, 35 ; organiza- 



tion of Indian Bureau, 36; appointment of 

 " Friends" as Indian Commissioners, 36. 



X. Officers, 33 ; mustering out of officers 

 unfit for duty, 33 ; strength of the army, 33 ; 

 recruiting, 33 ; reorganization of Departments, 

 33 ; "West Point cadets, 33 ; appropriations, 34 ; 

 debts due from railways, 34 ; sales of arms and 

 ordnance, 34 ; sale of arsenals, 34 ; surveys for 

 internal improvements, 34; Indian outrages, 

 34 ; report of General Sheridan, 34 ; letter of 

 Sheridan to Sherman concerning public criti- 

 cism of the Indian war, 35 ; reply of Sherman, 

 35 ; visit of Indian chiefs to Washington, 35; 

 Indian Commissioners, 35 ; national asylum for 

 disabled soldiers, 35 ; number of soldiers from 

 different States, 36 ; condition of soldiers, 36 ; 

 statistics, 36; employment of soldiers, 36; 

 workshops, 36 ; farms, 36 ; libraries, 36. 



XI. Number of men, 39 ; expense, 39 ; na- 

 tional cemeteries, 39 ; pensions and nature of 

 disabilities, 39 ; operations of, 40 ; storm-sig- 

 nals, 40 ; in the Southern States, 40 ; Indians, 

 40-42 ; Apaches in Arizona, 40 ; Camp Grant 

 massacre, 40; presentment of grand-jury in 

 regard to, 40, 41 ; General Crook in command, 

 41 ; Vincent Colyer's policy, 41 ; Wickenburg 

 massacre, 41 ; Governor Safford's position, 41 ; 

 General Schofield's order, 41, 42 ; number of 

 Indians in United States, 42 ; in Indian Terri- 

 tory, 42. 



XII. Expenditures of the War Department, 

 32 ; estimates for 1873, 32 ; war accounts, 32 ; 

 horses and mules in the service, 32 ; army uni- 

 forms, 33 ; supplies to Indians, 33 ; Freed- 

 men's Bureau, 33 ; location and strength of 

 the army, 33 ; pensions, 33 ; army medical 

 museum, 33 ; medical and surgical history of 

 the war, 33 ; appropriation for the manufact- 

 ure of arms, 33 ; coast defences and fortifica- 

 tions, 34 ; torpedo experiments, 34 ; work of 

 the Signal-Office, 34 ; verification of the prob- 

 abilities, 34 ; importance of this branch of the 

 service, 34 ; national cemeteries, 34 ; West 

 Point Academy, 34. 



XIII. Actual strength of the army, 38 ; 

 military divisions, 38 ; departments, 38 ; ap- 

 propriations for the army, 38 ; transactions of 

 the War Department with railroads, 38; ap- 

 propriation for soldiers' gravestones, 38 ; medi- 

 cal and surgical history of the war, 39 ; money- 

 deposits for soldiers, 39 ; cadets at West Point, 

 39 ; work of the Engineer Corps, 39 ; adoption 

 of Springfield arms, 39 ; operations of the Sig- 



