The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-24
THE ARMY.
Gen. sherman's Annual Report.

Gen. Sherraan's annual Report.
Washington, Nov. 23.-Gen Sher-
mans annual report to the Secretary of
War says:
BY the assignment of Major Gen.
Schofield to the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
military academy, that institution is
made equal to that of a division COM
mand, and West Point should right
fully constitute a military department,
so that its superintendent, as the COM
manding general of the department,
may exercise all the powers and func-
tions of such commander, especially to
order general courts martial, to approve
or disapprove their findings and to exc
cute all sentences, not especially
| reserved by the articles of war to the
President and Secretary of War. \ \
The aggregate force of the army now
consists of 25,331 men, all as actively
employed as though war existed. BY
the subdivision of territory, every fort
is under the supervision of a general
officer near at hand, with the part OF
the army proportional to the supposed
necessity to maintain order and peace,
whereby settlement of the country
may progressa and civil officers be enabled
to enforce the laws of the United States.
In the military division of the At
lantic there are no hostile Indians, but
the troops have been actively employed
| aiding u. S. marshals in enforcing rev.
enue laws and in protecting the weak
against the prejudices of the strong in
the frequent civil elections. The care
and preservation of public property and
of sea coast forts is the chief duty of
these troops.
The chief military events of the year
have TRANSFERRED in the military division
| of the Missouri. / am not yet in pos
session of Gen. Sheridan's report, but
| will endeavor to give a concise report
| of some of the chief points, as gathered
| from reports and letters.
In the Department of the Gulf the
troops under Gen. Augur have been
shifted from place to place in aid of the
| civil authorities, under the same state
of facts as in the Department of the
| South, and with similar results. On
the Texas frontier, especially the Mex
lean border, haslong existed an unsatis.
factory condition of affairs. From
Gen. Ord's letters and reports there
seems to be an organized. system Of
robbery by small bands Of Mexicans an6
Indians who cross to the Texas side
commit murders, steal horses and cat
tie and cross back with their stoler
property to the other side, where they
are comparatively safe from pursuit
from our troops, who rarely hear Of the
raid until it is too late to intercep,
them. There is now in Texas two reg
iments of cavalry, the Sth and 10th
which will be filed up as rapidly as pos
sible to the maximum standard; also
three regiments of infantry, the 10th
oath and 26th, which are necessarily
very small under the existing laws, still
1 hope, with increased activity, these
troops will suffice to protect the border
from incursions.
In the Department Of the Missouri
the Indians of New Mexico have beer
remarkably good, and the Kiowas
Comanches, Cheyennes and Arapahoes
located on reservations at and neai
Fort Sill, have been EXCEPTIONAL,
quiet the past summer, though requir
ing for reasonable security to thu
Kansas frontier pretty strong garrison
at Forts Sill, Ellicott, Dodge ant
Supply, and small g~arrisons along thu
Arkansas river and the Kansas Paci6'
railway.