ARMY, UNITED STATES. 



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Department of Dakota Major-General Han- 

 cock. 



Department of the Platte Brevet, Major- 

 General Augur. 



Department of the Missouri Brevet Major- 

 General Sohofield. 



Department of the Cumberland Brevet Ma- 

 jor-General Oooke. 



Department of Louisiana Brevet Major- 

 General Mower. 



Department of Mississippi Brevet Major- 

 General Ames. 



Department of the South Brevet Major- 

 General Terry. 



Department of the East Brevet Major-Gen- 

 eral McDowell. 



Department of the Lakes Brevet Major- 

 General Pope. 



Department of California Brevet Major- 

 General Ord. 



Department of Columbia Brevet Major- 

 General Crook. 



Department of Alaska ~Brevei Major-Gen- 

 eral Davis. 



The three military districts are Virginia, 

 Brevet Major-General Canby ; Mississippi, Bre- 

 vet Major-General Ames ; Texas, Brevet Major- 

 General Reynolds. 



The four military divisions of the country, 

 with their commanders, are as follows : Divis- 

 ion of Missouri, Lieutenant-General Sheridan, 

 embracing the departments of Dakota, the 

 Platte, and the Missouri; the division of the 

 South, Major-General Halleck, embracing the 

 States of Kentucky, Tennessee, "West Virginia, 

 Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, 

 Florida, Georgia, and North and South Caro- 

 lina; the division of the Atlantic, Major-Gen- 

 eral Meade, embracing the States of Ohio, 

 Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin ; the New- 

 England States, New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and 

 the District of Columbia; the division of the 

 Pacific, Major-General Thomas, embracing Cali- 

 fornia, Columbia, and Alaska. 



A further reduction of the forty-five regi- 

 ments of infantry belonging to the peace estab- 

 lishment was made during the year. This was 

 ordered in a clause attached to the general ap- 

 propriation bill passed March 3, 1869, which 

 provided, " That there shall be no new com- 

 missions, no promotions, and no enlistments 

 in any infantry regiment until the total number 

 of infantry regiments is reduced to twenty- 

 five, and the Secretary is hereby directed to 

 consolidate the infantry regiments as rapidly 

 as the requirements of the public service 

 and the reduction of the number of officers 

 will permit." By the same act the period of 

 enlistments was changed from three to five 

 years. The Secretary of "War determined not 

 to wait until the consolidation should be effect- 

 ed by the progress of time, but to make it at 

 once, and on March 10th issued orders for 

 that object. The colonels and field-officers 

 were selected at "Washington and announced 



in general orders, but the captains and lieu- 

 tenants were selected'by the commanding gen- 

 eral of the department in which the regiments 

 were to serve. Generally the senior officer of 

 each grade was retained. After this consoli- 

 dation there remained 509 unattached officers. 

 All of these were soon assigned to duty, except 

 156, who were considered as awaiting orders. 



The maximum of the army at the close of 

 the year was 52,234 enlisted men. Relying 

 upon two-thirds for actual service, the number 

 of men is 34,822. A plan for the reorganiza- 

 tion of the army is proposed by General Sher- 

 man. It retains the present number of regi- 

 ments, which is forty, and allows a maximum 

 of seventy-five privates to each company. This 

 would give for the line of the Army 2,135 com- 

 missioned officers and 42,490 men. Allowing 

 two-thirds as the proportion which can be re- 

 lied on for actual service, it would give 29,750 

 men. This number is not estimated to be above 

 the necessities of the country. 



The staff of the army consists of those offi- 

 cers and men who administer to the wants of 

 the military establishments, and are classified 

 as adjutants-general, inspectors-general, bureau 

 of military justice, quartermasters, commis- 

 saries, surgeons, paymasters, and ordnance 

 department, corps of engineers, chief signal- 

 officer, and post-chaplains. In the Adjutant- 

 General's Department nothing of importance 

 has occurred. The results of the inspection 

 service during the past year have been to dis- 

 cover and bring to the notice of the proper 

 authorities the qualifications of officers to fill 

 the positions assigned them ; the condition of 

 troops in regard to discipline, drill, and effi- 

 ciency whether duty has been neglected ; 

 laws, regulations, or orders violated; public 

 property misapplied, lost, or wantonly de- 

 stroyed ; whether there have been extravagant 

 or unnecessary expenditures of public money, 

 stores, or material ; and the personal responsi- 

 bility for all irregularities and abuses, with 

 suggestions for remedial action. Through the 

 agency of this branch of the service there has 

 been continued improvement in the discipline 

 and efficiency of the troops, as well as the pro- 

 motion of a more discriminating and careful 

 regard for the economical application of public 

 money and property. 



The Bureau of Military Justice has received, 

 reviewed, and registered 14,944 records of mili- 

 tary courts. It has also been charged with 

 the duty of arranging and indexing the im- 

 portant state papers of the late judge advocate 

 and the provost-marshal during the war. 



The expenditures of the Quartermaster's De- 

 partment have decreased $14,500,000, as com- 

 pared with last year. The number of civilians 

 engaged in the department has been reduced 

 from 10,000 to 4,000 during the year. The 

 scattered condition of the troops increases the 

 expenditures. To this is to be added the pe- 

 culiarly sterile character of the country in 

 which they are kept. The troops are stationed 



