42 ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ARNIM, COUNT YON. 



depot purposes ; and recommendation is made 

 for the immediate sale of that at Pikesville, 

 Md. The plan which it is proposed to carry 

 out contemplates the establishment of a grand 

 arsenal of construction near New York City ; 

 the retention of the Springfield Armory and 

 the Frankfort Arsenal as adjuncts for manu- 

 facturing purposes ; the retention of the "arse- 

 nals at Indianapolis, Ind., Kennebec, Me., Fort 

 Monroe, Va., and Augusta, Ga., as places for 

 storage and repairs; and the sale of the Alle- 

 ghany, Watervliet, Watertown, and Washing- 

 ton Arsenals. The proceeds of the sales, it 

 is thought, would exceed $3,000,000, which 

 might be devoted to the establishment of the 

 grand arsenal. The Rock Island Arsenal, now 

 uncompleted, will, it is believed, have sufficient 

 capacity to supply all the armies organized in 

 the Mississippi Valley in any emergency. 



On the Pacific coast the arsenal facilities have 

 been concentrated at Benicia. The only pow- 

 der depot for the War Department is now 

 located at the St. Louis Arsenal, about twenty 

 miles south of the city of St. Louis, and another 

 in the eastern part of the country is regarded as 

 indispensable. The entire army has b'een sup- 

 plied with new rifles and carbines, calibre .45, 

 and there are 26,000 of these arms in store. The 

 necessity of supplying heavy ordnance for the 

 armament of fortifications has been urged upon 

 Congress, but an appropriation of $75,000 is 

 all that has been made for the purpose thus 

 far. . 



The military operations of the year have 

 been of trifling importance, and directed chiefly 

 against the Indians on the frontiers. There 

 have been depredations in the North by Sioux 

 from the reservations, and incursions farther 

 south from the Mexican borders. The mili- 

 tary forces in those regions are used chiefly for 

 defense and the punishment of depredatory 

 bands. The Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Coman- 

 ches on the borders of the Staked Plains have 

 been brought into subjection and disarmed. 

 There have been many outrages on the Mexi- 

 can borders, and a vigorous campaign against 

 the Indians in that quarter is in progress. The 

 campaign against the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, 

 Kiowas, Comanches, and other bands in the 

 Southwest, has been successfully terminated, 

 the Cheyennes surrendering themselves as 

 prisoners of war, and giving up their captives. 

 There has been some difficulty in the Depart- 

 ment of the Platte, in preventing the invasion 

 of the Black Hills reservation by venturesome 

 miners in search of gold, but no serious trouble 

 has thus far occurred. All efforts to induce 

 the Sioux tribes on that reservation to give up 

 their treaty rights have been unavailing. The 

 vigorous operations against hostile and intrac- 

 table Indians in Arizona have resulted in re- 

 ducing that Territory to a condition of com- 

 parative peace and security. 



Geographical explorations and surveys have 

 been going on in Arizona, New Mexico, and 

 Colorado, under the auspices of the War De- 



partment, but it is impossible as yet to give 

 definite results. 



The Signal Service has been conducted with 

 remarkable success during the year. One hun- 

 dred and two signal-stations have been main- 

 tained for meteoric observations and calcula- 

 tions of coming changes. Arrangements have 

 been made for a series of daily reports from 

 Cuba, by Jamaica, to Barbadoes and the Wind- 

 ward Islands. In the calculations of coming 

 meteoric changes 87.3 per cent, have been veri- 

 fied. In the display of cautionary signals on the 

 Atlantic and Gulf coasts 76 per cent, have been 

 justified by events. Telegraphic lines have been 

 kept in operation from Barnegat to Cape May 

 and from Norfolk to Cape Hatteras as part of 

 the Signal Service. Telegraphic lines have also 

 been established in the interior, and on the 

 frontiers between military posts. 



The work of taking care of and improving 

 the national cemeteries has been satisfactorily 

 performed. Inclosing walls have been com- 

 pleted at nine cemeteries, and eleven more still 

 need them. The amount expended for this 

 and other necessary work is $231,387.25. The 

 total number of interments in national ceme- 

 teries, on the 30th of June, was 306,053 ; num- 

 ber of headstones furnished, 63,112. 



Under authority of an act of Congress of 

 February 10th, for the relief of persons suffer- 

 ing from the ravages of grasshoppers, the offi- 

 cers of the Subsistence Department issued 

 1,957,108 rations to 63,553 adults and 43,942 

 children under twelve years of age, in Minne- 

 sota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Dakota, and 

 Colorado. 



The work of preparing for the preservation 

 of the official records of the War of the Re- 

 bellion, both on the Federal and Confederate 

 sides, has made satisfactory progress. The 

 Chief Clerk of the War Department and several 

 assistants are kept at this work, and it is in- 

 tended to make it every way as thorough and 

 complete as possible. The estimate for the 

 expense of continuing the work for the next 

 fiscal year is $50,000. 



The Military Academy at West Point is in a 

 flourishing condition, but has undergone no 

 important change. The construction of a new 

 cadet hospital is in progress. 



Work is going on for the purpose of securing 

 a full display of war materials at the Centen- 

 nial Exhibition, under the direction of an array 

 officer. For this purpose $133,000 has been 

 appropriated, and $89,000 more is asked for. 



ARNIM, HARRY KARL KURT EDUARD, Count 

 von, a German diplomatist, born October 3, 

 1824. At first he studied law, but in 1850 he 

 entered the diplomatic service of Prussia, being 

 attached to the legation at Munich. In 1853 

 he was sent to Rome, and in 1855 received an 

 appointment in the ministry of Foreign Affairs 

 in Berlin, which position he retained until 

 1858. From 1859 to 1861 he was first coun- 

 cilor of the Prussian, embassy at Vienna. In 

 1862 he was sent as envoy extraordinary to 



