ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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The State Legislature was divided as follows : 



ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. The 

 military divisions and their departments, with 

 the names of the commanding generals, are as 

 follows : 



Military Division of the Missouri, Lieuten- 

 ant-General Sheridan. 



A. Department of Dakota, Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral Terry. 



B. Department of the Platte, Brigadier-Gen- 

 eral Crook. 



0. Department of the Missouri, Brigadier- 

 General Pope. 



D. Department of Texas, Brigadier-General 

 Augur. 



Military Division of the Atlantic, Major-Gen- 

 eral Hancock. 



A. Department of the East, Major- General 

 Hancock. 



B. Department of the South, Colonel and 

 Brevet Brigadier-General Hunt. 



Military Division of the Pacific and Depart- 

 ment of California, Major-General McDowell. 



A. Department of the Columbia : 1. Colonel 

 and Brevet Brigadier-General Wheaton ; and, 

 2. Brigadier- General Miles. 



B. Department of Arizona, Colonel and 

 Brevet Brigadier-General Willcox. 



The Department of West Point is under Gen- 

 eral O. 0. Howard, and the artillery-school at 

 Fort Monroe, Virginia, is under command of 

 Brevet Major-General Getty. 



The total enlisted force of the army in Oc- 

 tober, 1881, was 23,596 men. There were 120 

 companies of cavalry, 60 of artillery, and 250 

 of infantry. 



For a short time, viz., from January 31, 1881, 

 to May 9, 1881, a Military Division " of the 

 Gulf" was constituted by President Hayes, 

 embracing Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and the 

 Indian Territory, with Major-General Scho- 

 field in command; but, as this division was 

 found to fulfill no useful military end, it was 

 discontinued by President Garfield, leaving 

 boundaries as they existed before. 



While the troops have been kept very busy 

 during the past year, no serious Indian or other 

 war has occurred, but great progress has been 

 made in collecting and locating Indians, hith- 

 erto hostile, on their proper reservations. Sit- 

 ting Bull and his adherents, who had fled into 

 British territory, are now held at Fort Ran- 

 dall, Dakota, as prisoners of war, and the Utes 

 have been moved to a new reservation in Utah. 

 A sudden outbreak of a part of the Apaches 

 occurred in Arizona. In this case it was found 

 necessary to re-enforce for a short time the 

 usual garrisons in Arizona by a strong detach- 

 ment from New Mexico under Colonel Macken- 

 zie of the Fourth Cavalry. Some of the guilty 



Apaches are held as prisoners for trial. Some 

 have escaped into Mexico, while the greater 

 part of the tribe remains on their reservation 

 at San Carlos, under their proper civil agent. 



The actual expenditures under the War De- 

 partment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1881, were $42,122,201.39. 



The appropriations for 1882 were $44,889,- 

 725.42. 



The estimates for 1883 are $44,541,276.91. 



The estimates presented to the Secretary for 

 revision included 



For armament of fortifications $720,000 



Fortifications and other works of defense 4,186,500 



Improving rivers and harbors 29,101,300 



Improving Mississippi Kiver, by commission 4,323,000 



Public buildings and grounds in and near Wash- 

 ington 749,000 



Surveys of lakes 20,000 



Total $39,099,800 



This amount was reduced, on his revision, to 

 aggregate $10,689,000. 



The remainder of the estimates includes 

 salaries and expenses of the departmental civil 

 establishment and amounts for the support of 

 the army, for armories and arsenals, and for 

 miscellaneous objects. For these purposes the 

 estimates for 1883 were $33,852,276.91, being 

 $296,321. 37 in excess of the estimates for 1882, 

 and $2,082,851.49 more than the appropriations 

 for the current fiscal year. While the estimates 

 of expenses for this class show an increase, 

 there is in the estimates of expenses for im- 

 provements, including rivers and harbors, a 

 decrease which overbalances the difference, 

 and makes the estimates for 1883 $348,448.51 

 less than the appropriations for 1882. 



The report of the General of the Army calls 

 attention to the public necessity of legislation 

 authorizing the army to be recruited to a 

 strength of thirty thousand enlisted men. There 

 are in the army four hundred and thirty com- 

 panies, which are necessarily widely scattered 

 over the vast domain, to guard property and 

 to prevent, as far as foresight can, complica- 

 tions and troubles of every variety and kind ; 

 at one time protecting the settlers against In- 

 dians, and again Indians against the settlers. 

 When these occur, re-enforcements have to be 

 hurried forward from great distances, and al- 

 ways at heavy cost for transportation of men, 

 horses, wagons, and supplies. This cost in the 

 aggregate is estimated more than sufficient to 

 supply an increase of twenty per cent of pri- 

 vate soldiers. 



The number of deaths of soldiers was 130 

 from disease and 67 from wounds and injuries, 

 being 9 per 1,000 of mean strength, the fatal 

 results in cases treated being as 1 to 190. 



The number of new official demands upon 

 the record and pension division during the fis- 

 cal year, for information as to the cause of 

 death in the case of deceased soldiers and the 

 hospital record of invalids, was 55,040. The 

 average number of such demands, during the 

 previous ten years, had been 22,245 annually, 

 and the number during the fiscal year termi- 



