The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-07
Vacancies, Promotions, ReappsintmentS,
Transfers and Casualties.
OFFICERS on DETACHED SERVICE.
List of Aides-de-Camp, Professors of Mill
tary Science and Tactics, and
Acting Signal Officers.
Register of General Officers and
Field Officers for 1874.

DE ready Ior distribution for about two weeks. BY
the time 1t reaches the officers in Alaska and other
outlying stations 1t Will be somewhat stale. Though
superior in many respects to the registers of ante
0etum days. 1t is stu defective in showing the
stations and duties OF officers, except those de-
tailed as assistant and acting assis tan professors
at West Point, professors oil military science and
tactics at colleges and universities, and few ord
nance officers who in command at arsenals
and armories. This defect should be remedied in
future Registers, as 1t might easily be without ma
terally increasing the bulk of the volume
There are at present 2,077 commissioned officers
the active list. of whom 534 belong to the STAFF
departments and 1,543 to the line OF the army.
Compared with last years Register this shows
net decrease OF Is staff officers and net increase
of line officers.
The tabular statement of the organization of the
army will show that under the act of March 8,
1873, commissary sergeant has been appointed
for each post or place OF deposit OF subsistence
supplies, with the rank and pay of ordnance
sergeant; and that no more appointments of COM
pany quartermaster sergeants will be made, as
these non-commissoned officers are not enumer-
ated in the act Of May II, 1872. and are not
titled to its benefits. This fact does seem to
have presented itself to the authorities until
April 1878, when an order prohibiting future ap-
pointments OF these sergeants was lssued.)
VACANCIES.
The total number OF vacancies is III, of which
8 are in the Engineer corps, As in regiments, and
l24 in those staf departments in which promo
tons and appointments taoooed by act of
Congress. Several bills have been introduced in
both houses repeating in whole or part the pro-
hibitOry enactment of March g. 1863; and no
doubt, some measure OF relief will be vouchsafed
60 those dsconsolate STAFF officers whose promo.
tOn has been long deferred. Meantime the
stat corps is being depleted at rate
that fills the respective chiefs with alarm. The de-
partments most affected are the Medical Depart
ment, sixty-hve vacancies; the Ordnance, twenty
five vacancies: the Quartermaster GENERALS,
eleven vacancies, and the Pay Department,
eighteen vacancies. In the case Of the medlcos
the difficulty is temporarily surmounted by the
employment OF contract physicians, or acting as
Bstant surgeons they termed, at rates OF
pay varying from 800 to $50 per month. Ord
nance, quartermaster and commissary duties are
performed by line officers specially detailed, but in
the Pay Department this is not practicable.
Uncle Sans nephews must be paid by regular pay.
masters or not at ALL
PROMOTIONS.
The past year was comparatively good one for
promotions. Including those that will follow
when certain officers whose seniority entities
them to advancement to fill existing vacancies
Shall have been ''carried up" the promotions in
esse and In posse number upwards of l0O as fol-
lows:
10 the rank OF DrlgadIer general one; colonel
four; lieutenant colonel, seven major, ten; cap
tain, thirtyone, and the balance first neutenants.
The officers already promoted, above the rank
or captain, am Lieutenant Colonies Crook, to
brlgadier general vice Cooke retired, and Henry
ID. Wallen to colonel Second infantry vice Craw-
ford retired. Majors E. A. Carr, Fifth cavalry and
John P. Hatch, Fourth cavalry succeeded to the
lieutenant colonelces of their respective reg-
ments. Colonel Carr was originally carried by
.oi
80 the Filth, but they exchanged as to remain
with their old regiments.) Captains H. c. Bank
head, Eighth cavalry and James Biddle, First cav
airy, were promoted majors Of the Fourth and
Sixth cavalry respectively, vice Hatch promoted
and Norris retired. The vacancy vice Carr pro- |
NOTED was filled by the reappolntment OF Major |
Gordon as noted below. Major Bankhead was
twenty years in the Filth infantry and would still
have been a captan-at this date he would have |
stood No. on the list of infantry captains-had he /
not been transferred to the Eighth cavalry on the
consolidation OF regiments in 1870. As 1t is, he has
served longer than any OF the twenty.eight cav /
airy majors who rank him.
Major J. D. Wilkins, 5th infantry, took the lieu
tenant c0onecy OF MS regiment, vice Wallen, pro-
noted and Major Richard ]. Dodge succeeded
General Crook as Lieutenant colonel OF the 23d. |
In the place OF WILKINS and Dodge, promoted,
Captains Thomas L. Dunn and Henry L. Chapman
were made majors OF the sth and Sd infantry, re-
The promotions consequent upon the retirement
or Colonies CulIum, Engineer corps, Granger 2lst
been announced. The senior officers In the line OF
Lieutenant Colonies T. B. Tower, Engineers;
Ated sully 18th infantry and Joseph H. Potter,
Majors O. A. Gilmore. Engineers; william H.
Lewis, 7th Infantry, and John s. Mason, 10Th in
Captains Jared A. Smith, Engineers: Guido Iges,
Hath infantry and n W. Osborne, 18th infantry
REAPPoINTMENTs
The following officers nave been reappointed
during the year.
Major George A. Gordon, 4th cavalry. honorably
into a min
9th cavalry
Captain George B. Hoge, 18th infantry wholly
retired August 3d. 1871; reappointed captain 18th
infantry; again examined by retiring board and
pronounced not incapacitated for active service;
Captain William Nj. Kilgour, 41st infantry, wholly
retired December 16 1867; reappolnted captain
oath infantry, and since retired under sections I6
and IL. act August 3, 1861.
Captain Louis II. Sanger, 17th infantry, dis
missed July "a, 1922 reapp0inted captain 18th in
lantry. with his former rank.
Gustave II. Radetzk. Lieutenant Ninth cavalry
dismissed october II, 1872: reappolnted January 8,
1873; dismissed November 10, 1873.
George W. Smith, Captain 18th infantry resigned
December 81, 1862 appointed secohd lieutenant
v f <. Goddard, Lieutenant 9Th cavalry, re-
signed January IL, 1873, appointed second leuten-
Augustus G. Tassln, Captain 18th infantry, dis
charged December l, 1870, appointed second lieu
tenant 18th infantry.
Charles II. Lester, captain sth cavalry. resigned
aS69, appointed second lieutenant 24tn Infantry
W. o. Cory, Lieutenant oath infantry, honorably
mustered out January l, 1871, appointed second
ioIu Nlnldnbr}. IA Oil 10 tno
House 10 restore this officer to the rank he held
when mustered out II passed, IL will place him
No. on the list OF first lieutenants in his regl-
ment as soon as vacancy occurs.)
Alexander II. NJ. Taylor, Lieute 18th Infantry
discharged December !, 1870; since hospital
steward; appointed second lieutenant 10Th in
1antry.
TRANSFERS.
Captain L. 7. Morris rom 81 infantry to Sth cav
airy; Captain Charles Hobart from sth cavalry to
3D. infantry; Lieutenant J. +. smailwood from "a
cavalry to 9th infantry slnce resigned) Lieuten-
ant JOnn II. Coate from 9Th infantry to "a cavalry
Lieutenant Charles A. Vernon from attn cavalry to
18th Infantry; Lieutenant II. s. Crews rom 10th in
fantry 10 Attn cavalry; Lieutenant Harry q. John
son from the I'd to the 1st infantry.
CASUALTIES.
Including Withdrawals from active service there
havp 10 caQu altt 'xtz. 81 ra1t