The Washington critic., 1885-07-09
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Notes of Interest to tho Service From
All Along the Lines.

Major Frank r. Bennett, Second Cav
airy has been granted two months leave.
General Alfred II. Terry has been de-
tailed as president of the retiring board at
Fort Smelling.
Iieutenant.C Commander Bradford has
been detached from the Trenton and
placed on sick leave.
General Rufus Saxton, colonel and as
sistant quartermastcr-genera has leave
for two months from Louisville.
Colonel George b. Sanford, Major First
Cavalry, arrived at Fort Leavenworth
Monday for duty at the Army School.
Mrs. VIM. p Rogers, wife of Captain
Rogers, Seventeenth Infantry, is visiting
i'm st. Paul from Fort Abraham Lincoln,
Dakota.
General James s. Brisbin, recently pro-
NOTED TO lieutenant.colonel, Ninth Infan-
try, arrived at Omaha last Sunday with
his family.
General William W. Burns, assistant
comnissary general, has been detailed on
the New York retiring board, in place of
General W. ID. Whipple, who is on leave.
Captain John f.. Greer, Ordnance Corps,
and acting engineer officer of the Depart
ment of the Missouri, has gone to Colorado
to re-survey the reservation at the Canton
ment on the Uncompahgre.
Major William H. Powell, Captain
Fourth Infantry, is president, and First
Lieutenant Charles w. Mason, Fourth In.
fantry Judge advocate of court-martial
convened July at Fort Omaha.
Major George b. Russell, captain Ninth
Infantry, left Fort Leavenworth last Fri
day with his family for Fort ID. A. Rus
sell, Wyoming to join his company, from
which he has been absent since May, 1867.
Major Thomas II. Handbury, Corps of
n,
cral Scholield's staff, has been granted one
months leave from July ~, with per-
mission to apply for one months ex-
tension.
The force now available against the
Cheyenncs, should they turn loose. is
fourteen troops ofcavalry averaging sixty
five men each, and six companies of in
fantry averaging forty men each, total
of ,l5O effective men.
Lieutenant John Steiford, Eighth In
iantry, has been granted two months
leave by Major-GSeneral Pope, with per-
mission to apply for one month extension.
This enables him to make an extended
bridal trip in the East.
Sergeants Arthur G. Smith, Troop +,
Third Cavalry, and John Il. Spalding,
Company c, Seventeenth Infantry, have
been appointed past quartermaster SER
geants, and assigned respectively to duty
at Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala, and
Fort Totten, Dakota.
Captain Evan Miles, Twenty-first Infan-
try, has been detailed to command the
rifle range camp at Fort Omaha during
the Department rifle competition this
month, and First Lieutenant Montgomery
ID. Parker, Ninth Cavalry, is ordered as
quartermaster and ordnance officer of the
range camp.
The commissioned staff of the
Twenty-second Infantry is as follows
Sergeant-Maior, Thomas Bushby; Quar-
termaster-Sergeant, Oswald Windfuhr;
Chief Musician, Emil Reichardt and
Principal Musicians John Luchsinger and
John Fabian. A handsomely printed
roster of all the on-commissoned officer;
of the regiment has been received at this
office.
Fort Leavenworth notes tell that Lieu
tenant John II. Morrison Twentieth In
fantry, left there last Thursday to spenc
his two months in New York before join
ing his company in Montana; First Lieu
| tenant Alexis r. Paxton, Fifteenth In
| fantry, left Thursday with his mother fo
his home at Lynchburg, Va, and FRS
Lieutenant Henry l.. Ripley, Twenty
| fourth Infantry, left at the same time t.
| spend his delay at his home in Boston.