The Washington critic., 1885-07-27
ARMY AND NAVY.


Second Cavalry, is acting inspector OF
rifle practice of the Department of the
Columbia.
Major-General Pope, commanding the
Division OF the Pacific, is exercising
command of the Department OF the
Columbia until the arrival OF General
Glbbon.
Captain Jacob II. Smith, Nineteenth
Infantry, is president, and First Lleu-
tenant Charles B. Hall, adiutant, Nine
teenth Infantry, Judge e-advocate OF a
court convened last week at Fort Clark,
Texas,
Lieutenant. Colonel David II. Glen
denim, Third Cavalry, and First Lieu.
tenant Frank Ii. Hardie, quartermaster,
Third Cavalry, are respectively presi-
dent and judge-advocate of court mar
tial which convened last Friday at Fort
Davis, Texas.
Colonel John p. Hatch, Second Cav
airy; Major John w. Williams. SUR
geon; First Lieutenant Daniel G. Pear
son, quartermaster, Second Cavalry,
and Lieutenant Frederick ID. Holton,
Second Cavalry, convened at Fort
Walla Walla, Washington Territory,
last Monday as board to examine and
report upon the sources of the water
supply OF that post.
General Stanley announces In cir
cular that rs desortons occurred dur
ing the quarter ending June 80. from
the troops In the Department of Texas.
OF these Fl were from the Third Cav
airy, Is from the Eighth Cavalry, "
from the Sixteenth Infantry and II
from the Nineteenth Infantry. None
were in the bands OF the several regi-
ments, or troops G, Ii and l., Third
Cavalry; troops B, 9, and Il, Eighth
Cavalry; light battery f, Third Artill-
cry; companies Il, D, E, + and G, Six.
teenth Infantry, and companies A, b,
T., G and ii, Nineteenth Infantry. The
greatest number occurring in one com.
mand was in troop ID, Third Cavalry
Captain Albert ID. King) at Fort Davis,
commanded by First Lieutenant George
A. Dodd.
Majors Bennett a. Clements, john
son V. ID. Middleton and Passmore
Middleton, surgeons, have been de-
tailed at Fort Leavenwortb, to examine
Private John Moser, General Service,
for hospital steward.
Chaplain Henry V. Plummer, Ninth
Cavalry, has been relieved from duty
at Fort Riley, Kansas, and ordered to
report to General Howard at Omaha.
Major Charles c.. Rasou, Twenty
fourth Infantry, is president, and First
Lieutenant Morris C. Vessels, Twenty
fourth Infantry, Judge e-advocate, OF n
court to convene tomorrow at Fort
Elliott, Texas.
The line Of troops stationed at the
wells and springs along the Arizona
border are all from the Fourth Cavalry
and the Indian scouts, as follows
Troop A, Captain Allen Smith, Silver
Creek; b, Captain Henry w. Lawtop,
Long Mountain f; d, Captain Charles
A. p. Hatfield, Copper Canon f,
Captain Henry Sweeny, Mud Springs
G, Captain William A. Thompson
Skeleton Canon; II, Captain John w.
Martin, Guadalupe Canon ; /, Captain
Abram Il. Wood, camp in Bisbee
Canon, and X, Captain James II. Dorst,
at San Bernardino. Lieutenant w. w.
II. Fisher, assistant surgeon, is with
the troops at Silver Creek and San Bar
nardino and Acting Assistant Surgeon
Charles Anderson at Skeleton Canon.
Captain William G.. Wedemeyer, Six
teenth Infantry, was in Chicago last
Friday from his home at Watertown,
Wis, where he Is on leave until Octo.
Der.
The Wachusitt, which Is now at Pan
anna, has been ordered to the Mare
Island Navy-Yard to be put out OF
commission.
Lieutenant George w. Kingsbury
Twelfth Infantry, who has recently
been at Clifton Springs, N. Y, on leave
has gone to the Minnesota Lakes.
First Lieutenant Medorem Crawford
jr., Second Artillery, arrived at Atlanta
last Thursday from Fort Barrancas
Fla, to secure quarters for batteries b
and Ii for summer camp there.
Miss Nellie Robinson, the little
daughter of Lieutenant william w
Robinson, regimental quartermastel
Seventh Cavalry, has returned to Fort
Meade, Dakota, from Wisconsin, and
has with her for the summer her tive
cousins.
First Lieutenant Charles Nj. O'COn.
nor, Eighth Cavalry, who is OH leave
from Fort Brown, Texas, has beer
granted six days extension OF leave.
General Charles McDougall, lieuten.
ant colonel, retired, died Saturday al
Berryville, near Harpcr's Ferry, where
he had gone recently from Fort Mon,
roc. He was born in Ohio in 1907, but
was raised in Indiana, from which State
he entered the service in July, 1882, as
an assistant surgeon, becoming major
and surgeon in July, 1898, while on
duty in Florida. He served through
the Florida, Seminole and Mexican
wars and during the Rebellion, and
was brevetted colonel in 1864, and brig.
adier-general in 1865. He was made
lieutenant colonel and medical purveyol
in July, 1865, and retired in 1869 fol
age, since which time he has resided In
Georgetown and this city. One Of his
daughters was married to the late Major
John Adams, and another is the wife OF
Major Lawrence S. Babbitt of the Ord
nance Corps. His only son is Captain
Thomas M. McDougall, Seventh Cav.
airy, who is now with his troop at Fort
Yates, Dakota. He was brother OF
the late Rear Admiral McDougall, us
Navy. The remains will be brought
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