The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-13

HEAD-QUARrERs or THE Army,
ApyUrANr GENERALS OFfioE,
EsERAL ORDERS, Washington, July II, loa2-

Grsrs.l o oS.Dr.'' Washington July r. iS'2
/. The General-in-C Chief has received the follow
ing Order through the Department Of War;
WAN DEpARrMENr, July IL, 1912
The great improvement which has been made IN
the facility of intercourse between the seat oil gov
eminent and the most remote parts oil The onlon'
since the organization of military divisions, renders
correspondence between the General Head Quarters
of the Army and the military geographical depart
ments SO rapid that Divisions are deemed no longer
necessary. The crcuitous transmission of important
communications caused by that organlzauoh' mas
sometimes been found nconyenent to the puniic ser
vice. and may prove seriously detrimental III vic"
therefore of the great importance Of direct, prompt
and immediate correspondence between the Executive
and the Major General commanding the Army on
the one part and the commanders of the several mil
tary Departments on the other the President drees
that the two military geographical Divisions be dis
continued.
Circumstances have varied so much since the MIL
itary geographical Departments were estaolished'
that new arrangement has become expedienti and
the Major General commanding the Army will there
fore report for the appreciation of the President such
plan for distrctng the United States into Military
Departments, with commander to each, not ex-
ceedng ten as may be deemed advisable, with view
to the direction Of the military force which may at
any time be employed within them.
&c. SPENCER.
III. The following arrangement OF military geo
graphical departments having been duly submitted
and approved, under the foregoing Instructions the
same is hereby published for the government of the
Army.
Department, No. l. West Florida, and the States of
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and
Kentucky. Head Quarters from the lst OF Novem-
Der to the 3Oth of June in each year, at New Or
leans and for the remainder of the year at the Bay
of ST. Louis, or Baton Rouge as the Commander may
elect.
Department, No. q. The country West of the Mis-
sissipp North of Louisiana and Texas, and South OF
37th degree of North Latitude. Head Quarters,
Fort Smith.
Department. No. 3. The State of Missouri (above
the 37th degree of north latitude the State OF ILL
nos the Iowa Territory that part OF the Wiscon-
sin Territory west of the 18th degree of longitude
west from Washington and the Indian country north
and west of the lines indicated. Head Quarters
Jefferson Barracks
| DEPARTMENT No. 4. The States of Indiana, Ohio,
and Michigan; the part Of the Wisconsin Territory
not included in Department No 3, and the Indian
country north Head Quarters, Detroit.
Department. No. 5. The States of Pennsylvania
New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
Rhode Island Head Quarters, Troy, N. Y
Department No. g. The States of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and Maine. Head Quarters Port
land
Department No. 7. The States of Delaware, Mary
land, and Virginia Head Quarters, Fort Monroe
Department, NO. 8. The States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia. Head Quarters, Sui
livan's Island, Harbor of Charleston.
Department. No. 9. Temporary East and middle
Florida. Head Quarters in the field.
ILL., Brevet Major General Gaines is, for the pre-
sent, assigned to Department No. L. and Brigadier
General Wool, to Department No s.
w. The senior officer in the command OF troops in
a department. will command such department until
an officer of higher rank shall be sent to the same
w. Commanders of the respective departments will
not leave their Head Quarters tours OF inspection,
without giving the earliest notice thereof Gin anticI-
patton, if practicable) to General Head Quarters
They will also promptly report their return together
with such observations the state and condition
of the troops and the frontiers Inspected as the good
of the service and the General Regulations for the
Army may require.
BY command of Major General ScorT.
r. JONES, .adjutam General.