The New York herald., 1874-11-26
7. THE ARMY.
THE ADVANCE REGISTER FOR 1876.
Reorganization OF STAFF
Departments.
PROMOTIONS IN 1874.
Casualties. Reappoint-
1nents, DC.
Register Of General Officers, Chiefs Of Staff
Departments, and Field Officers OF
Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry.

Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry.
The Adjutant General OF the Army, intent upon
taking time by the lorelock this year, sent his
advance Army Register TOR 1897 to the printer
early this month"; and expects that 1t Will be ready
FOR PRONUNCIATION In a few days. There have been
many changes since the publication OF the reg
lister for 1874 The army has been reduced by
deaths, discharges and desertions from $4,000 dts
reported strength last January to rs 900 enlisted
inch, but the number of commissioned officers
has not been prcportonately diminished.
There are now 2,0d9 officers on the active list OF
the army, without counting batch or assistant
surgeons recently appointed, SO that Tor every
twelve enlisted men tand a raction) there Is one
commissioned olIcer. The gentlemen OF the per.
manent stan number 524, not including he assist
ant surgeons above referred to nor ten line OH.
GERS selected lor transfer TO the Ordnance Depart.
ment but not yet transferred. The proportion OF
stan officers Is. therefore, about TO each squad
Of four line officers and fortyeight men. Several
OF the stan departments have been trimmed down
little, principally ON paper SO far the reduction
being prospective and dependen upon casualties.
Fifty-dye Officers have been lost to the service
by designations, deaths and dlsmissals; upward
OF 40 have been promoted; forty.one cadets have
joined the army from West Point, and several
ttth0H NPplCdutS loT ippOluLLueuL 10 NdCduL
second lieutenancies have been notified to appear
before an examining board in Washington.
REoRsAEnArIoN OF STAFF DEPARTMENTS.
The act OF June %, 1874, changes the organiza.
ton Of the Inspector Generals Department,
Bureau OF Military Justice, Subsistence Depart
Mcnt, Medical Department and Ordnance De-
partment, as iollows:-
Inspector Generals Department.
To consist OF one colonel, two lieutenant COLO
nets, two majors and a detail OF four line officers
with cavalry pay. This department at present
has eight onieers-viz., Coionels Marcy,
Sackett, Schriver. Davis and Harde; Lieu.
tenant Colonels Jones and Baird and Major
Ludlngton, all West Pointers and old
officers except Major Ludington, who entered the
service as a captain in the new seventeenth in-
fantry, August 8, lS6l., The inspector generals
now In office are not affected by the act referred
to, but no new appointment Will be made IN this
department until the number is reduced below
five.
Buyedu Of Military Justice.
General Joe Holts little bureau, consisting OF
one brigadier, one colonel and eight majors, is to
be reduced as casualties occur to one brgadier
general ana four majors. thus cutting of the AS
sistant Judge Advocate General, who. Is employed
IN the Secretary's office, and four majors. The
Junior officer OF THIS bureau Major Asa b. Gard
.nerl has been detailed as professor OF law at the
VI, ~,
wmch authorizes tile detail ol Judge advocate
for thar purpose. In the old army oi 1000 officers
major was usn aeemea revise se ee rk nro
ceedlngs OF courts martial and wrestle with 4ucs-
lions oi military law.
One assistant comniIssary general with the
rank OF lieutenant colonel, mas been added, ana
the NUMBER vi captains reduced from sixteen to
twelve 1. now consists OF one brgadier general,
two cOloneIs, three lieutenant cOloneis, eight
MAJORS twelve captains and about $50 colnmissary
Mdical Department..
There should nave peea .22 onceis in this de-
partmeni but casualties and the sioppage OF pro-
motions and appointments mad reduced the num-
ber to l55 The Organzaton IS now fixed as lo-
lows: One surgeon general, with the rank o1 briga
/ der general; one assistant surgeon general and
one chef medical surveyor, each with the rank OF
+ eulohel two assistant medical purvcyors, with
the rank OF lieutenant colonel; fity surgeons, with.
/ the rank OF major, and l50 ASSISTANT surgeons,
with the rank oil lieutenant Of cavalry for the irst
! five years service and captain OF cavalry alter
wara; iour medical storeAecpers seyenty-five
contract surgeons, ana Us many hospital stewards
as may be required
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT..
on the reorganization Of the army IN 1866 TINS
department. was given Drigadier general.
three coioneis, four heutenant colonels, ten ma
)ors, twenty captains, sixteen first lleutcnants,
ten second lleutenants and thirteen ord oG.c
act Of June 3D. 1874, cuts or the ten
second lieutenants ana enacts that all
may aiterwar, exist shah pe filled by transfers
from the line. 1t also contains this provlso, InaC
appointment or promotion III Salu department
shall hereafter be made until the oilccr or person
SO appointed or promoted shall have passed IL
satisfactory examination before board OF ord
| nance officers senior to hmsc." The position
OF chief OF ordnance was vacant when tnat act was
passed, and was filled by virtue OF section Of
sad act, which removed the then existing bar 10
promotion certain staif departments. Therefore,
II tue above quoted provlso was carried out, some
Wniteiey lIagner. Calender anu Ladley, ana
Majors Benton, McNurt and McAillster-mlst have
had tue pleasure oi examining MAJOR stephen Y.
Dap..f .etr faN M n nh H.
nance, ana not only that but they must also
have pronounced him competent for promotion
over thelnselvesl
PROMOTIONS.
This has been favorable year for promotiens,
upward Of one hunared and twenty officers nay,
| by appointment 10 higher grades. ,...-
Cnder special acts OF Congress the following
officers have mad their grievances redressed to.tne
back pay MAYOR Absalem Baird to be Inspector
hsl'j rom June "a Is, isS7 @ MAJOR william Myers, quar-,
termaster's Department, advanced from NO. II
TO No. j. ON the lss OF MaJori; Captain James
/ VI, Robertson, second artillery, TO be major
IN the same regiment an extra majority having
been temporarily added to that regiment Tor ms
sion as nrst lieutenant Filth cavalry September
II, 1868, and was appointed second lieutenant
sixth cavalry February 3, 1871, has Decn restored
TO tne position ne would held mad ne renamed
IN The service which places him at the mead ol the
first lieutenants IN the Filth cavalry.
In the Subsistence Department Colonel AleN-
ander l.. Shiras, alter IOrty-one years. service III
the army, twenty.seven OF winch nave been spent
in that department, has succeeded General Eaton
as Commissary General OF Subsis tence. rue other
promotions are e:-Lteutenant C0,onel NJ l.; siinp-
son TO be colonel, vice Shlras; Majors william
w. Burns AMI Amos BeckwitH to be hentenahs
col0ncls, the former vice simpson auu the latter
10 h An original vacancy: Captains John T.
Hawkins ana Michael r. small to be majors, vice
Burns and Beckwitn, and Lieutenant Chares L.
Eagan Twelfth infantry, To- be captain.
In the Medical Department the rank or the cneI
medical purvcyor has been advanced rom lieu-
tenant colonel TO colonel, and Jededlah Ii. Baxter
promoted accordingly. There Is already one more
surgeon with the rank Of major than allowed oy
the act OF last June, so that there VIII he no pro-
motion TO that rank until two casualties occur.
The two senior surgeons have a record oil lorty-
one years. service, and the next thee on the list
thrty-etght years each. About thirty assistant
surgeons have been ordered before medical boards
at New York and san Francisco Tor examination
for promotion to the RANK OF captain on acc0unt
OF length OF service, but no promotions have yet
been announced.
In the Euuluepr cOrns Tleutenaut Colonel Zeal-