REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, D. C., September 30, 1892. SIR: I have the honor to present for your information the following report upon the duties and operations of the Engineer Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892: OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS. The number of officers holding commissions in the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, at the end of the fiscal year was 117. Since the last annual report the corps has lost one of its officers, Lieut. Col. William E. Merrill, who died on December 14, 1891. There were added to the corps, by promotion of graduates of the Military Academy, five additional second lieutenants. On the 30th of June, 1892, the officers were distributed as follows: Commanding the Corps of Engineers and the Engineer Department.. Office of the Chief of Engineers 1 3 Board of Engineers, fortifications, river and harbor works, and Division Engi neer Board of Engineers, Board of Ordnance and Fortification, and Division Engi neer Fortifications, river and harbor works, and Division Engineers Board of Engineers, Mississippi River Commission, Division Engineer, and Board of Visitors.. Board of Engineers, fortifications, river and harbor works, and Board of Visitors. Washington Aqueduct and Light-House Board River and harbor works... Fortifications and river and harbor works.. Mississippi River Commission and Missouri River Commission Fortifications, Post of Willets Point, U. S. Engineer School, and Battalion of Engineers 1 River and harbor works and Missouri River Commission. 1 Public buildings and grounds, Mississippi River Commission, Missouri River Commission, and Light-House Board. 1 Battalion of Engineers and U. S. Engineer School. 14 Mississippi River Commission.. Detached, at Military Academy, on International Boundary Commission, with Light-House Establishment, as military attachés, with Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and at headquarters military department. 20 117 3 The officers detached were on duty as follows: Lieut. Col. John M. Wilson, Superintendent Military Academy Lieut. Col. John W. Barlow and Lieut. David DuB. Gaillard, Members of national Boundary Commission Maj. David P. Heap, engineer third light-house district. Maj. William R. Livermore, engineer first and second light-house districts Capt. Frederick A. Mahan, engineer secretary of the Light-House Board. Capt. George McC. Derby, and Lieuts. Mason M. Patrick and Charles H. M stry, on duty with Company E, Battalion of Engineers, and at Mil Academy Capt. Theodore A. Bingham, military attaché to the United States legatio Berlin.. Lients. Harry F. Hodges, Lansing H. Beach, and Joseph E. Kuhn, on du Military Academy Lieut. Cassius E. Gillette, engineer officer department of the Missouri.. FORTIFICATIONS. The construction of fortifications for the defense of the seacoa resumed in consequence of $1,221,000 having been appropriated f purpose by the act of August 18, 1890. For the previous fifteen no appropriations for this object had been made. By the act app February 24, 1891, $750,000 was appropriated for the same purp These two appropriations have been allotted to the construct emplacements for modern rifled guns and mortars for the defe localities as follows: It was at first contemplated to mount in these emplacements gui different calibers from those now reported, the intention being provide emplacements for guns as manufactured. But funds not ha been appropriated to provide for emplacements being constructed rapidly as guns, it will be possible to mount in the emplacements b the guns for which they were originally designed. The projected fortifications and the progress made in their const tion are as follows: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.-Officer in charge, Lieut. Col. S. Mansfield, Corps of Engineers, with Capt. S. S. Leach, Corps of E neers, under his immediate orders. |