8ft ABMITAOE, WILLIAM E. 



Senator* and 41 Representative, were chosen. 

 There VM general tranquillity at i 

 the year A<1 every indication of returning 

 prosperity. There bein* no -ion of the 

 LMiebtnr* in 1878, no official report* cover- 

 ing the transaction* of thu - .v> riinu-nt fur 

 the rear We been made. 



ARXITAUE, Riirlit Rev. \\IUJAM K; 

 1 1. I, lroU*tant Episcopal Dio- 



eeee of Wisconsin, born in Now York 

 1830; died at St. Luke' Hospital, Xew York, 

 December 7, 17S. Dr. Armiuge received hU 

 collejrUt* education in Columbia College, grad- 

 uating in 1H4; he tudled theology in the 

 Onertd Theological Seminary, and was ad- 

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1WJ; waa ordained pried the aame rear, and, 

 after (pending the flrnt seven years of bis 

 ministry in N'er Hampshire and v 

 railed to beoome Rector of St. John'* Omrrti, 

 Detroit, Mloliipui, In 1839, where he was 

 greatly belored and esteemed. In December. 

 IMA, he was oonser rated A.i- ;. of 



Wiconin, the feeble health of Blah 

 rendering surh aid necessary. In May. 1H7>>, 

 the death of the Tenerable bishop caused his 

 elevation to the racant see; and no bishop in 

 the Xorthwert has since that time surpassed 

 him in devotion to the Episcopal work, or in 

 the multiplicity and beneficence of his labors. 

 ..vl snnVrod for several years from a 

 tumor at the base of the spinnl column, and 

 dnrint tbe six month* previous to his death 

 the disease had become so serious and pnint'nl 

 that tbe physician* in Milwaukee had advised 

 him to come to Now York and submit to an 

 operation nly chance of saving his 



He arrived in New York December 4th, 

 and, oa examination -it snrgeons, they 



declared it impo-wble for him to survive more 

 thaa week without an operation ; at the. 

 ..mo tin I him frankly Unit, if it 



ahoold prove nnmoeeswfal, his system would 

 receive such a thock that he would not prob- 

 ably live moro than a few hours. The opera- 

 tJon was performed on KriiUy. an<l he lived 

 till S A - conscious and 



I'VITK 3. The 



rafaUr military forr* of 



td by law to SO.Ooo men. Tbo n. -tunl 

 treofth of the Army on thn 7th of \..-. .-.,'.. r 

 was S5.53S eallcted men, of cavalry, artillery, 

 awl lnfntrr, awl S.B70 non-oorabaUnt 

 W.Srti la all <>r theae, fnll twet, 

 esjt of thoee belontmiir to artiv, 

 were aiek or on deuil*. len 



for iuilitry service 1,5S men. 



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1.6M. 



The American military otJtlillnhti 

 maW the chant* of Oeaeral William W 

 kaay. srstot j of War. Tbe aetval command 

 of the etttre array i* In the band* of General 

 WVaMi T. Bhermaa. whose headqnarten are 

 at WiiMiUni, Then are four military di- 



ABMY OF THK UNITED STATES. 



visions: the Military Division of the Atlantic, 

 uiuliT tliecoininandof Major-Cii-iii-riil \Vintie-ld 

 ..iiiuarti-r* :it Xi-w York ; the 

 Military Divi-'um of the Missouri, umlor tlie 

 command of laeutenant-Cieneral 1'hilip 11. 



. m, headquarters at i'liif;ijro. 111.; the 

 Military Divii.m <ilthe South, under tlie coni- 

 mandoVMnior-(ieneral Irwin Mel>owoll, I 

 quart. -vill,-. Kentucky : and tiie Mili- 



tary Division of the 1'ncitic, under the com- 

 mand of Major-General J. M. S-li..ii,-l.l, 1. 

 quarters at San Francisco, California. The 

 Division of the Atlantic constitutes but one 

 ,;. utment. In tii.- 1 >i vision ni I'K- Mi-~ "iri 

 are the Depurtinent of Dukota, uudt-r 

 BrijOMlier - General Alfred 11. Terry, head- 

 quarters t St. 1'anl. Minnesota; the Depart- 

 ment of the Missouri, under Brigadier-General 

 John Pope, headquarters at Fort Leaveiiworth ; 

 tii.' Department of the Platte. under Hri^iulier- 

 ;.il E. O. O. Ord, headquarter-4 at Omaha, 

 Nebraska; anil thu Department of Texas, 

 under Hripidier-Gcncml C. 0. Aujrer. head- 

 quarters at San Antonio, Texas. The Division 

 of the South includes the Department of tho 

 South, under thu immediate command of Gen- 

 eral McDowell, and tho Department of tho 

 Gulf, under Colonel W. II. Kniory, whose head- 

 quarters are at Mississippi City, Mississippi. 

 The Division of the 1'acitic consists of tho 

 Department of California, under (ieiieral Scho- 

 tiold; the Department of the Columbia, under 

 l'..loiu-l .lellersoii C. Davis with his head- 

 quartent at I'orthmd, Oregon ; ami the I Vpart- 

 ment of Arizona, under Brigadier- (Jeneral 

 Georf-e Crook, whose beadquartera ore at 

 Prescott, Arizona. 



The amount appropriated for the mainte- 

 nance of the Army for the year endiui: .luiie 

 80, 1874, is $82,UI 7.'.i71.:i7. The estimate 

 tho year ending June 30, isT.'i. are 1?:U,410.- 



i. in addition to which special c.-timates 



been snUmitteil of if l, + l!l.5.")0 for tbe 

 arinanieiit of forts, and $20,4511,696 for engi- 

 neerinjt-work. 



During tho year five tnapeotors-geBera) have 

 been enp^rod in inspecting the various depart - 

 menu, and havo made voluminous reports, 

 which show tho Army to be in excellent con- 

 dition. 



Of tho fifty railroads which nt the close of 

 tho war purchased material of the War Depart- 

 ment, to an appraised value of 7..~ioo.iiiH>, thirty 

 have been paid in full; the amount, includ- 

 ing interest mid exponges, beinu- s.'i.i iti.i;' 

 'there i still due from twenty railroads tho 

 Mini of f4.il6A.0-. 1 



An .TCSS of March :>d nppropr' 



$1.""' nii-h liead-s| ( .n 



eaued soldiers in the national i-emct. 

 Hi"l have boon received, but no contract has 

 as yet been made for the stones. A small 

 lab four inches thick bus Keen prescribed for 

 the known, mid a I. lock six inches s<|iiai> 

 the unknown dead. Of the former M- 

 will be required, and of tbo latter 105,000. 



