The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-20
ARMY INTELLIGENCE
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. IS.
WAR DEPARTMENT, ApJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,

VI Ar DEPARTMEAT, ApJUTANT hENERAL > 'fFlht'
Washington, Dec. 10 1858.
Promotions and appointments in the army of the Uni
ted States, made by the President since the publication
General Orders" No. S, of July 3, 1858:
PROMOTIONS.
Medical Observation-Disclosures Surgeon James Sim
mons be surgeon vice Harvey deceaSed-o date from
August % 1856 and take place on the Army Registe
next below Surgeon David c. DeIeon.
Corps Of Engineers--Brevet Second Lieutenant Rich
ard X. Meade, r, to be second lieutenant July 29 1855
the date of Captain Sanders death.
First Regiment Of Drdgoons.-Second Lieutenant VIM
d. Pender to be first lieutenant May H. 1858, vice Tay
lor killed in action. Company c.
Brcvet Second Lieutenant Samuel W. Ferguson of the
second Dragons to be second lieutenant, vice Pender
promoted-to date from June II, 1858 Company ~
Brevet Second Lieutenant Marcus A. Reno, to be Sc
cond Lieutenant vice Gastan, killed in action-to date
from June Il, 1858. Company E)
Second Regiment Of Cdrdlry-Second Lieutenant John
B. Hood, to be first lieutenant August lS 1858 vice
Radziminski, deceased. Company K.l
Brevet Second Lieutenant Manning NJ Kimmel, Of the
first cavalry, to be second lieutenant August 1S 1858
vice Hood promoted. company G.
Brevet Second Lieutenant George A. Cunningham, O
the first cavalry to be second lieutenant October 1858
vice Van Camp killed in action. COMPANY D.
Regiment Of Mounted RifemeH.-First Lieutenant
Robert NJ Morris to be captain, June H. 1885, vice Rhet
appointed paymaster. Company g.
Second Lieutenant Joseph q. Tford, to be first lieu
tenant June H. 1858, vice Morris, promoted Com
pany E.)
Brevet Second Lieutenant Ira W. Calfin TO he second
lieutenant June a. 1858, vice Tilford promoted tCom
pany H.
Third Regiment Of ArtiVery.-second Lieutenant Ly
man NJ Kellogg to be first lieutenant July 81 1858, vice
Mowry, resigned Company A.
Breyet Second Lieutenant William Sinclair, of the
second artillery, to be second lieutenant July 81 1858
vice Kellogg, promoted Company K.)
Eighth Regiment Of I!fdnty.-Frst Luet Lafayett.
b; Wood to be captain July l9 1888, vice Longsreet
Second Lieut.. Thomas NJ. Jones' to he first lieutenant
July 10, 1858, vice Wood promoted. Company AZ
Brevet Second Lieut. James J. Van Horn, Of the first
infantry, to be second lieutenant July 49, 1855 vice
Jones, promoted. Company G.):
Ninth Regimentcf Of Infantry -Brevet Second Lieutenant
Charles G. Harker of the second infantry to be second
Vicp Hen died of ds
received in action. Company c.
Tenth Regiment Of Efantry.-First Lieutenant Cuver
Grover to be captain September H. 1885, vice Pitcher
deceased. Company F.l
Second Lieutenant James Deshler, to be first Iieuten-
ant, September II. 1885 vice Grover, promoted Com
Breve Second Lieutenant sardine P Reed of the Sd in
antry, to be second lieutenant, September H. 1855 vice
Desher, promoted. Company E.l
APPoINTMENTs
Subsistence Departnent.-First Lieutenant William W
Burns of the 5th infantry be commissary of subsis
Medical Department-J Cooper Mckee, of Pennsyl
SimOns promoted.
Pay Department. Major James Longstreet cap
tain in the Sth regiment of infantry to be paymaster
July 19, 1858, vice Dashiell, dismissed.
Daniel McCue, of Indiana to be paymaser, October %
1858, vice Denny, deceased
Ordnance Department. Richard Fathery, of Arkansas
to be military storekeeper August 1853 vice Andrews
deceased.
TRANSFERRED
Breve Second Lieutenant John s. Saunders second ar
tery, to the Ordnance Department, September 1858
Second Lieutenant Lafayette Peck seventh infantry
the eighth infantry, November 80, 1858.
Second Lieutenant Charles H. Ingraham eighth infant
ry, to the seventh infantry, November so, 1858.
CASUALTIES.
Resgned (2)-Frst Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry. third
artillery, July 81, 1855
Second Lieutenant Edgar oCOnnor, seventh infantry
October %, 1858.
Commissions Tacated by Ne,y appointments t2)-By
Paymaster James Longstreet his commission captain
in the eighth infantry, July IS, 1858.
By laymaSter lnOmaS Il. Rhett, his commission
tain in the regiment of mounted remen June A. 1858
Died, Us )-Brevet Lieut. Col. Francis Tavlor maio,
first artillery, at Fort Brown, Texas, Oct Il is5s
Brevet Major John Sanders captain corps engineers
at Fort Delaware, Del, July 90, 1858.
Capt 1salc Bowen cOmmissary of subsistence at Pass
Christian, Miss, Oct. 3, 1855
Capt Matthew Pitcher, tenth infantry at New York
Capt. Lafayette b. Wood eighth infantry at washing
ton, d. c., Oct 10, 1858.
Brevet Capt. Oliver IT, P Taylor first lieutenant first
dragons, killed in action, Colville Trail Washington
Territory eghtyye miles north of Snake river, May II
First Lieutenant Charles Radziminski second cavalry
at Memphis, Tenn, August 1855.
Second Lieutenant Newton F. Alexander corps of eng
neers, at Biloxi, Mississippi, octoberlO 1858.
Second Lieutenant Cornelius Van Camp second cavalry
killed in action, near the Wichita Village, Texas October
l, 1855.
Second Lieutenant Jesse X Allen, ninth infantry, Of
wounds received in action the Upper Yakama river
Washington Territory, August Is, 1855.
Second Lieutenant William +. CASTOR first dragons
killed in action on Cove Trail Washington Territory
eightyfve miles north Of Snake river, May H. 1858.
Brevet Second Lieutenant John T. Magruder, first
cavalry, at Marysyille Nebraska Territory June 2s
1858.
Surgeon BENJAMIN F. IIarney, medical department al
Baton Rouge, La, August %, 1858.
Paymaser st Clair Denny, at Pittsburg, Pa, August
IS. 1883
Military storekeaper William r. Andrews, Ordnance
Department, at Little Rock Arsenal Arkansas August
1858.
Dismissed, Q)-Paymaster jeremiah Y. Deshiell, July
10, 1858
Officers have been arranged in the foregoing order to
the companies to which they succeeded in the natural
course of promotion appointment Should a differ
ent assignment however, have since been made by
competent authority it will take precedence of the for
By order of the Secretary of War:
s. COOPER, Adjutant General