The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-07-21
ARM v AND NAVY.

Major WIN. IL. Gibson mas Deen loIin-
ally relieved as chief paymaster OF the De
partment of the Missouri.
Hospital Steward Charles Remington
has been sent to the Insane Asylum here
from Fort Lowell, Arizona
First Lieutenant Herbert f. Tutherly,
First Cavalry has joined his troop
(Carrs) in the field in Kansas.
Captain Eli L. Higgins Second Cavalry,
has been granted one month leave from
Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory.
General Samuel b. M. Young, Major
Third Cavalry, is commanding the battal-
ion of his regiment which il ut Crisheld,
Kan.
Lieutenant NJ. f. Steele, Eighth Cav
airy, has been relieved flom duty with
Troop ID of his regiment, and ordered to
his own troop.
Lieutenant III. F. Birmingham, assistant
surgeon, has been relieved from duty in
the Department of the Missouri, under
orders from the War Department.
Major Henry Carroll, First Cavalry,
who was recently promoted from the
Ninth, has been visiting Colonel Guy V.
Henry and other friends in Omaha.
Major George ii. Burton, Inspector
General, has been ordered to Fort Selden,
N. NJ, and Fort Sill, Indian Territory, to
make certain special Investigations.
Private Herman c. Funk, general serv-
ice, has been promoted to corporal and as
signed to duty in the lnspector-GeneraTs
Office Department of the Columbia.
First Lieutenant Oscar +. Long, Fifth
Infantry, has been formally announced to
the Department of the Missouri as aide
de-camp to General Nelson A. Miles.
First Lieutenant Eben L. Swift, jr., adj
jutant Fifth Cavalry, has relieved Lieuten-
ant A. NJ. Palmer, Twenty fourth Infantry,
as recruiting officer at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Major William f. Drum, Fourteenth
Infantry, acting Inspector-General of the
Department of Arizona, has been attached
to Company +, First Infantry, for target
practice.
Lieutenants G. l.. Edie and c. S. Black,
assistant surgeons, and Hospital Steward
j. A. Murray are on duty in the field in
Kansas with the cavalry troops sent from
Texas recently.
Colonel Jacob +. Kent, Major Fourth
Infantry, recently promoted from the
Third infantry, has reported to General
Howard by letter and is assigned to station
at Fort Omaha.
Captain Daniel w. Benham, Seventh
Infantry, is president, and First Lieuten-
ant Charles A. Worden, Seventh Infantry,
iudge-adyocate, of a court to convene July
20 at Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
Colonel William p. Carlisle, Fourth In
fantry, is president, and First Lieutenant
Butler ID. Price, adiutant Fourth Infantry,
judge-advocate, of court-martial con-
vened Monday at Fort Omaha, Neb.
Lieutenant w. NJ. Dickinson, Fourth
Cavalry, relinqushed the leave granted
him on completing the course at the Fort
Leavenworth Army School, and at once
joined his troop in the field at Crisfield,
Kansas.
First Lieutenant VIM, V. Richards,
regimental quartermaster, Sixteenth In
fantr,, has been promoted to captain, and
is ordered to close his q,lartermastcr ac-
counts and join Company q, at San An
tonic, Texas.
Captain John w. Martin, with his
Troop, ii, Fourth Cavalry, has been or
dered to Guadalupe Canon, Arizona, to
take temporary station. Acting Assistant
Surgeon Frederick Bass il ordered to duty
with the command.
Lieutenant-C Colonel William A. Rucker,
deputy paymaster-general, has been an
nourced as chief paymaster of the Depart
ment of the Missouri. lie is the brother
of General D. H. Rucker and uncle of
Mrs. Philip II. Sheridan.
Lieutenant Peter Campbell, Eighteenth
Infantry, has been appointed acting quar-
termaster of the troops in the field at
Crislield, Kan, and Lieutenant S. A.
Wolf Fourth Infantry, is appointed act
ing commissary of the same command.
Captain W. NJ, Waterbury, Thirteenth
Infantry, is president, and First Lieutenant
Emerson Griffith, Thirteenth Infantry,
judge-advocate, off court martial convened
Monday at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
All the members are from the same regi-
ment
The following officers have been detailed
to take part in the competition next month
for places on the rife team of the Depart
mcnt of the Platte: First Lieutenant
James b. Jackson, Seventh Infantry;
and Lieutenants Edward IT, Browne,
Enurth Infantry Ieroh ~ Tory and El