ARMY, UNITED STATES. 



assembled brigades, or to forts or posts at 

 which the largest number of troops sball be 

 ordinarily stationed. Enlistments into the cav- 

 alry must be for the term of five years, and into 

 the artillery and infantry for three years, and 

 recruits may be enlisted into the Veteran Re- 

 serve Corps from men who have been wounded 

 in the military service of the country, provided 

 they are found to be fitted for garrison or other 

 light duty, to which, when enlisted, they are 

 to be assigned. The general officers of the 

 Army are to comprise one general, one lieu- 

 tenant-general, five major-generals, and ten 

 brigadier-generals, who are entitled to the same 

 pay, emoluments, and staff as heretofore pro- 

 vided by law. 



The military establishment of the country, as 

 reorganized by the act of July 28, 1866, will 

 thus consist of ten regiments, or one hundred 

 and twenty companies, of cavalry, five regi- 

 ments, or sixty companies, of artillery, and for- 

 ty-five regiments, or four hundred and fifty 

 companies, of infantry.. Should all the com- 

 panies be filled to their maximum strength of 

 one hundred men, the army would comprise a 

 total of nearly 76,000 men, rank and file, of all 

 arms, who may be thus classed : 



Artillery 7,000 



Cavalry 14,000 



Infantry 55,000 



Total 76,000 



The present strength of companies has been 

 fixed at sixty-four privates for artillery, cavalry, 

 and infantry, and one hundred and twenty-two 

 privates for light batteries of artillery, making 

 an aggregate strength of 64,302 men. From 

 the annual report of the Secretary of "War, it 

 appears that- at the close of 1866, the two new 

 white regiments of cavalry were recruited, or 

 nearly recruited, and that, of the fifty-four com- 

 panies required to convert into regiments the 

 single battalions of the nine three-battalion regi- 

 ments, authorized by the act of 1861, forty- 

 eight had been completed and sent to their 

 regiments. The four Veteran Reserve regiments 

 were on active duty, and measures had been 

 taken to recruit the colored regiments from the 

 colored volunteers still in the service. During 

 the war the volunteer service was so much more 

 popular than the regular Army, that it was found 

 impossible to fill up the ranks of the latter to 

 the extent authorized by law. Soon after the 

 general disbandment of volunteers commenced, 

 in the summer of 1865, recruiting for the regu- 

 lars became more successful, and since the pas- 

 sage of the act of July 28, 18G6, has proceeded 

 so satisfactorily that there seems no reason to 

 doubt that the maximum strength of 54,302 

 men, now fixed upon, will be reached before the 

 summer of 1867. The whole subject of re- 

 cruiting for the regular Army, and disbanding 

 volunteers, is by law placed under the super- 

 vision of the Adjutant-General's office. By the 

 report of this officer it appears that from Octo- 

 ber 1, 1865, to October 1, 1866, 36,674 recruits 



were enlisted for the regular Army, and that at 

 the latter date its strength was 38,545 men. 

 This is exclusive of one thousand Indian scouts, 

 authorized by the act of July 28, 1866, of whom 

 six hundred have been assigned to Lieut.-Gen- 

 eral Sherman, for his Division of the Missouri, 

 two^ hundred to Maj. -General Halleck for the 

 Division of the Pacific, and two hundred to 

 Maj.-General Sheridan for the Department of 

 the Gulf. As soon as the ranks of the Army 

 are well filled, it is intended to place restric- 

 tions upon the recruiting service, in order to 

 diminish the number of -men received, so that 

 it will correspond to the number required to 

 keep up the strength of the regiments as they 

 become reduced by casualties or other causes. 

 This will be done by raising the standard of quali- 

 fications as to height, age, etc., which will at the 

 same time improve the personnel of the army. 



The following table gives the commanding 

 officers of the new regiments of cavalry, in- 

 fantry, and Veteran Reserve Corps, so far a? 

 appointed at the close of 1866 : 



No. of 

 EegX 



7th. 



8th. 



9th. 

 10th. 

 llth. 

 12th. 

 13th. 

 14th. 

 15th. 

 16th. 

 17th. 

 18th. 

 19th. 

 20th. 

 21st. 

 22d.. 

 23d.. 

 24th. 

 25th. 

 26th. 

 27th. 

 28th. 

 29th. 

 30th. 

 31st. 

 32d.. 

 33d.. 

 34th. 

 35th. 

 36th : 

 37th. 

 38th. 

 39th. 

 40th. 

 41st. 

 42d.. 

 43d.. 

 44th. 

 45th. 



Description. 



Cavalry 







" (co'l'dj 

 Infantry 



(col'd) 



(Vet. Res.)! 



Colonels. 



Andrew J. Smith. 



John I. Gregg. 



Edward Hatch. 



Benjamin H. Grierson. 



Win. S. Ketchum. 



C. C. Augur. 



Isaac V. D. Reeve. 



Charles C. Lovell. 



Oliver Shepherd. 



Caleb C. Sibley. 



S. P. Heintzelman. 



H. V. Carrington. 



Samuel K. Dawson. 



Frederick Steele. 



George Stoneman. 



David S. Stanley. 



Jefferson C. Davis. 



A. C. Gillem. 



Gordon Granger. 



J. J. Reynolds. 



John E. Smith. 



Charles H. Smith. 



0. B. Wilcox. 



John D. Stevenson. 



P. R. de Trobriand. 



Thos. L. Crittenden. 



Thos. H. Rogers. 



A. V. Kautz 7Lieut.-Col.). 



Charles Griffin. 



John Gibbon, 



George W. Getty. 



Wm. B. Hazen. 



Joseph A. Mower. 



Nelson A. Mills. 



Geo. W. Schofield (Major). 



Daniel E. Sickles. 



John C. Robinson. 



Thos. G. Pitcher. 



Wager Swayne. 



By General Orders, No. 95, the two addi- 

 tional regiments of cavalry composed of white 

 men, are to be known as the 7th and 8th, and 

 those composed of colored men as the 9th and 

 10th. The ten regiments of infantry in the ser-' 

 vice at the commencement of the war retain 

 their old designations. The first battalions of 



