The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-20
Advices from the Capitalize
Military Department of the
MissOuri-Annual Report
Of Gen. Sherman.
Affairs in Cuba-Progress of
the Revolution.
Financial and Commercial
FROM WASHING TON.

General shermRn's Annual Report
Affairs I'm the Military Division of tne
Missouri,
Despatch TO the Associated Press
WAsHNeToN, Nov. 20.-The following report
was just received at the War Department from
LieutenantG General Sherman:-
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE
MISSOURI ST. LOUIS, No., Nov. /, 1868. -Brevet
Major. General Z. D. Townsend, Assistant
Adluant- General, Washington, ID. C.-Generai:
The Military Division of the Missouri is still
composed OF the Departments OF Missouri, Platte
and OAK ota, embracing substantially the country
west OF the Mississippi, river to the Rocky
Mountains, including New Mexico, Utah,
aud Montana. These departments are COM
manded by Generals Sheridan, Augur, and
Ferry, whose annual reports are transmitted
herewith, and TO them refer you for more
detailed statements of the progress made and
of the events ofthe past year. You will observe
that whilst the country generally has been at
peace, the people on the Plains and the troops
OF my command have been constantly at war,
enduring all its dangers and hardships, with
ports / endeavored to describe the reasons and
causes which made state OF
war, the normal condition of affairs on
the Plains, and have since studied to find
some lasting remedy, but thus far without suc-
cess. Our people continue as heretofore to
settle on the exposed points of the frontier, to
travel without the prccaution which we'll
known danger would suggest, and to run after
other precious metals, thus coming into daily
contact and necessary conflict with discontented
and hostile Indians. The co-ordiuate depart
nents OF our Government likewise continue
to extend the surveys of public lands
westward, and grant patents to occupants
to locate and build railroads, and to establish
mail routes, with the necessary stations and
relays of horses, as though that region Of coun-
try were IN profound peace and all danger to
occupation and transit had passed away. Over
all these matters the military authorities have
DO control, yet their public nature implies pub.
lie protection, and we are daily and hourly
called on for guards and escorts, and are left in
the breach to catch all the kicks and cuffs of
war of races, without the privilege of advising
or being consulted beforehand. The reports OF
Generals sheridan, Augur, and Terry contain
abur dant evidence on these points, and refer
TO them here merely to demonstrate the fact
that as long those things continue from
necessity and public policy, we cannot reduce
our military forces on the forntier, and should
not even allow their strength to fall away by the
rapid causes OF death, discharge, and deserion,
but should keep the ranks continually
replenished with fresh recruits. At
the time of my last annual report,
dated October l, 1867, was member Of the
Peace Committee, on which the Congress of the
United States had devolved the whole Indian
question for a practical and, if possible, a
peaceable solution. At the same time, by an
Executive order, it was made my military duty
TO subordinate all the acts OF all the troops sub.
ject to my command to whatever plan of action
the commits on might adopt
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