New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-15

Cant RUFus SANTOS, Chief Qnaftermaster OF tue
Command graduated at the Military Academy IN
1919 snd was then promoted to be brevet Second
Lieutenant in the Third Artillery. He was promoted
10 The Fourth Artillery in 1850, where he served I'LL
made a Captain in the Quartermaster's department
on the 18Th Of May last. lie was Instructor OF Arlil'
lery in tic Military Academy in 1859 and 1860, and
was on Gen LYONS staff in Missouri from February
until June Of 1861. He was then ordered to Gen.
Mcclellan, and served with him as Clief Quarter
master through the campaign in Western Virginia
Gan, Saxton has also served and rendered efficient
service az assistant in the Cost Survey. He was
Unsigned to bic present position when the organ'za-
ton Of the expedition was first projected, ut Hemp
stead l.. l.. and has had entire charge OF The pur-
chasing of all Quartermasiers supplies ana pro-
yidiog transportation of the material OF the army oil
this expedition; laborng necessarily to bring II 70
its present state Of efficiency.
Cant. QUINCY A. GILMORE, Chief Engineer OF
the command, is from Ohio. lie entered the Military
Aedey in 1916 graduating at tie head of bis elas',
large one, in lSi9. lie Was then breyeted "a
Lieutenant Of Engineers, was promoted 10 is'
Jcut.psut of Engineers in 1856, and to Captalncy
in 1861. Can't Gilmore served as Assistant Engi-
peer on the fertilization in Hampton Roads, virginia
from 1919 10 1852; Assistant Instructor oil frac'
lic Military EDgir eerirg at the Military Academy
from 1862 TO ls56during tie last year Of which DC
was slso Quariernaser and Commissary OF tne
Academy. On December, 1856, Capt. GILMORE
relieved Minor George Dallan of the Engineers, oil
| bis dqties as commercial and purchasing agent for
The Engineers Department, in New-lork cry, 10
/ l.. 4 tiiaea cd a
petition.
Capt. Gilmore hss with him Lieuts. Tardey and
ORourke, of the Engineer Corps, aud detachment
from company of Sappers and MinerS, recently from
Fort Pckens, and s also well supplied with the
material and implements necessary id the coDstrnc-
ton Of field works both offensive and def nfiye, and
for carrying on the operations of a siege.
Cant. WM. II. MORGAN, Commissioner OF Sab
sistence, and Chief of Commssary of the Command
was appointed cadet in 1850 from Louisiana, grad
uated and war appointed Second Lieutenant IN The
I'd Artillery, July /, 1859, and was promoted to
Firtt Leutenancy in 1856; WAS appointed Captain
llth Infantry on May A. 1861. but declined, and was
appointed Captain aud Commsary Of Subsistence
Angus, 3, 1861. From Gardeners Military Dictionary
We learn that Capt. Morgan was distinguished in
] several conilcir VIVID TUG III W
Territory in 1853. Under bis control tie Commis-
snry Department of the command has been placed
in very Efficient condition.
Beiug from the extreme South Captain Morgan
deserves great credit for Lis loyalty at time when
treason among the Southern officers Of the Army
was The rule rather than tho exception.
| First Lieutenant FRAScIs j. SKUNK, Chief OF
Ordnance of the Command, is from Pennsylvania.
He entered the Military Academy in 1919 and grad.
dated. fifth Of his class in 1885, was then breye'ted
Second Lieutenant Of Ordnance, and promoted to
Flint Lieutenancy in 1856; was Acting Assistant
Professor OF Chemistry at the Military Academy
from 1855 to 1857 and in 1853 joined Gen. Albert j.
Johnson's Utah Expedition at Camp Floyd, as Chief
Of Ordnance, in which oapasi,y be served I'LL 1860
lie has recently ,eved in the Washington Arsenal,
from which place be joined Gen. Sherman's command
at Annapolis lie has with him Lieut.. Porter, Of tie
Ordnance CoTs.
Lieut.. j. II. WLsoS, Chief Typographical En-
gineer of the Command, graduated ut the Military
Academy, iith in Lis eass, in lsG0, and was then
appointed Second Lieutenant of Typographical En-
gineers. He Ia from Illinois, and joined Gen. Sher-
mans. con mand few days before il embarked at
Annapolis.