Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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... garrisons . By restoring to the military establishment the strength allowed up to 1874 , and providing for the battalion formation , with a few minor changes , the organization of the Army will be : Cavalry : Ten regiments of 3 ...
... garrisons . By restoring to the military establishment the strength allowed up to 1874 , and providing for the battalion formation , with a few minor changes , the organization of the Army will be : Cavalry : Ten regiments of 3 ...
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... garrisons and their subordinates . The transfer of the duties of these two establishments to the Quar- termaster - General would simplify business and effect a marked saving in expense , while the organization of that department would ...
... garrisons and their subordinates . The transfer of the duties of these two establishments to the Quar- termaster - General would simplify business and effect a marked saving in expense , while the organization of that department would ...
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... garrisons at more important centers , thus reducing the cost of maintenance and transportation and utilizing improved ... garrison has heretofore been stationed , but have considerably augmented the extent of territory over which that ...
... garrisons at more important centers , thus reducing the cost of maintenance and transportation and utilizing improved ... garrison has heretofore been stationed , but have considerably augmented the extent of territory over which that ...
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... garrisons within or near the great mountain and plain region lying between the one- hundredth and the one hundred and fifteenth meridians . It is to the sparsely settled portions of this pastoral and sterile belt that the Indians would ...
... garrisons within or near the great mountain and plain region lying between the one- hundredth and the one hundred and fifteenth meridians . It is to the sparsely settled portions of this pastoral and sterile belt that the Indians would ...
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... garrison . Colum- bus barracks , Ohio , has become a regimental post , and Jefferson bar- racks , Mo. , will receive an increased garrison . The Major - General Commanding the Army reports that the charac- ter of the recruits received ...
... garrison . Colum- bus barracks , Ohio , has become a regimental post , and Jefferson bar- racks , Mo. , will receive an increased garrison . The Major - General Commanding the Army reports that the charac- ter of the recruits received ...
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acres Act July admission allotment amount appropriation Ariz article of war artillery August average barracks battery Board bronze gun buildings cadets caliber Camp Capt carriage Cavalry ceded to United charge commanding Davids Island depots disbursements discharge diseases dist drill duty ending June 30 enlisted expenses fever firing fiscal year ending Fort Barrancas Fort Keogh Fort Leavenworth Fort Monroe Fort Riley Fort Sherman Fort Spokane garrison Harbor headquarters Home hospital Indian Infantry instruction Island June 30 Jurisdiction ceded Lieut longitude March mean strength medical officers ment miles Military Academy military posts Mont month Nebr Ordnance pensioners Post-office pounds practice purchase quartermaster Quartermaster's Department quarters R. R. stn received recommended recruits regiments repairs Reservation River September 30 sergeant Sewer system Signal Corps soldiers Subsistence surgeon telegraph tion Total treasurer troops U. S. Army Washington West Point
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Page 678 - February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation...
Page 306 - For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia...
Page 567 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 520 - Provided, That in making any reduction of force in any of the Executive Departments, the head of such Department shall retain those persons who may be equally qualified who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors.
Page 633 - I, AB, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the National Government ; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty of the United States, paramount to any and all allegiance, sovereignty, or fealty I may owe to any State, county, or country whatsoever; and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers, and the rules and articles governing the armies of the United States.
Page 323 - For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars.
Page 262 - Under existing laws the Quartermaster's Department, under the direction of the Secretary of War, provides the Army with military stores and supplies requisite for its use, such as clothing and equipage, tents, band instruments, tableware and mess furniture, equipments for post bakeries, fuel, forage, stationery, lumber, straw for bedding for men and animals, all materials for camp and for shelter for troops and stores, furniture for barracks, such as bunks, benches, chairs, tables, lockers, heating...
Page 566 - The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.
Page 678 - To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 629 - With thoughts that fill his glowing soul, He bids the ore illume the page, And proudly scorning time's control, Commerces with an unborn age. In fields of air he writes his name, And treads the chambers of the sky, He reads the stars, and grasps the flame That quivers round the Throne on high. In war renowned, in peace sublime, He moves in greatness and in grace ; His power subduing space and time, Links realm to realm, and race to race.