The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-08
THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.
ARMY NOTES.


Columbia militia: Harry b. Cilley, first lieu
tenant and adjutant, Sixth Battalion; Ed
ward l.. Dunn, captain, Company D, Fifth
Battalion; William y. Greenwood, second
lieutenant, Company G., Third Battalion;
Richard A. johnson, first lieutenant and
quartermaster, Second Battalion; Frank Muir
ply, first lieutenant, Company G., Fifth Bat
talon; George II. Michaelsen, second lieu
tenant, Company B, Fifth Battalion; A. j.
Robinson, first lieutenant, Company G, Third
Battalion James I. Simpson, first lieutenant
Company B, Fifth Battalion; Edward l..
webster, first lieutenant, Company A, First
Separate Battalion
The general court-martal appointed to meet
at David's Island, New York Harbor, October
'S, 1891, has been dissolved, and a new court
has been appointed to meet there Tuesday
next for the trial OF such prisoners as may be
brought before it. The detail for the board
Is: Captain Ebenezer w. Stone, Twenty-first
Infantry; Captain John Nee. Hyde, assistant
-quartermaster; First Lieutenant William c.
Mcfarland, Sixteenth Infantry; First Lieu
tenant Charles B. Hardin, Eighteenth In
fantry; First Lieutenant William B. Reynolds,
Fourteenth Infantry; First Lieutenant Row
land G. Hill. Twentieth Infantry; Second
Lieutenant Charles 2. Russ, Eleventh In
fantry, and First Lieutenant George r. Cecil,
Thirteenth Infantry, judge advocate.
The following-named officers have been
ordered to report in person to the Army retir-
ing board for examination: Captain Francis
M. Gibson, Seventh Cavalry, and First Lieu
tenant Ernest s. Robins, Third Cavalry
Upon the conclusion of his examination Lieu
tenant Robins will return to the place of re-
ceipt by him of this order.
The War Department has announced the
following appointments of cadets to the Mill
tary Academy: John Elliott Hunt, of Washing
ton. II q of ahon
Rltcb1e Court House, Fourth West Virginia;
Thomas Wannsboro, Albany. Nineteenth New
York; William A. Ostrander, Slinglclands
Nineteenth New Y ork, alternate; G.. Thomas
Summerin, Rayville, Fifth Louisiana, and
Robert d. Earle, carleton, Second Florida.
The following assignments OF officers re-
Gently promoted have been ordered Colonel
William II. Jordan promoted from lieuten-
ant colonel, Nineteenth Infantry, to the
Nineteenth Infantry, vice Smith, retired
Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Wikoff (pro-
moted from major, Fourteenth Infantry, to
the Nineteenth Infantry, vice Jordan, pro-
moted. Major John w. French tpromoted
from captain, Twenty-ffth Infantry, to the
Fourteenth Infantry. vice Wikoff, promoted
captain Charles l.. Hodges (promoted from
first lieutenant, Twenty-ffth Infantry, to the
Twenty-ffth Infantry, Company a, vice
French, promoted. First Lieutenant James
L. Anderson (promoted from second lieuten-
ant, Sixteenth Infantry, to the Twenty-fifth
Infantry, Company G, vice Hodges, pro-
smoted.
The following transfers in the Fourth Ar
tillery have been ordered: First Lieutenant
Walter s. Alexander from Light Battery B
to Battery NJ. First Lieutenant Charles L.
Corthell, from Battery M toBattery B.
Leave Of absence for four months, to take
effect about December 10, 1891, with per-
mission to go beyond sea and to apply for an
extenton OF two months, has been granted
Second Lieutenant Odon GuroYits, Eleventh
Infantry.
Captain Edwards Godfret, Seventh Cavalry,
mas been assigned to temporary duty in the
Adjutant Generals Office to date from October
.26, 1891.
Leave of absence for two months, TO take
effect on or before November S, 1891, has
been granted First Lieutenant William L.
eSibert, Corps of Engineers.
First Lieutenant Stephen Y Seyburn, Tenth
Infantry, will report in person to Colonel
Robert A. Crofton, Fifteenth Infantry, prcsi-
dent OF the examining board at Fort Wayne,
Mich, for examination for promotion.
The order detailing Captain Daniel NJ
Appel, assistant surgeon, as member of the
examining board appointed to meet at Fort
ID. A. Russell, Wyoming, has been revoked,
and Captain Aaron H. Appel, assistant
surgeon, has been detailed as member OF the
board.
Medical Inspector Frank S. Du Bois has
been ordered to the Philadelphia.
Lieutenant George P. Colvocoresses has
been detached from temporary duty in the
Bureau of Navigation and ordered to the
Atlanta.
board of officers has been appointed to
meet at the call of the president thereof at
the War Department, for examination of such
officers as may be ordered before 1t for pro-
motion. The detail for the board is: Lieu
tenant Colonel John B. Parke, Second In
fantry; Major Robert II. White, surgeon:
Major Joseph X. Carson, surgeon Major
> Ohm q. Gilmore, assistant adjutant general;
Captain James Chester, Third Artillery, and
Second Lieutenant Michael j. Lenihan,
Twentieth Infantry, recorder.
The following-named officers will report in
person to the board for examination as to
their fitness for promotion: First Lieutenant
Frank Taylor, Fourteenth Infantry, and First
Lieutenant William Lassiter, Sixteenth In
fantry,
Lieutenant n. H. Miles has been detached
from the Atlanta and ordered to duty at the
Norfolk navy yard as assistant to the equip
ment officer fol the inspection of electrical
material etc.
Medical Inspector T. WolveIton has been
detached from the Philadelphia and ordered
to appear before the retiring board, and then
await orders
Assistant Surgeon N. j. Blackwood has
been detached from the navy yard, League
Island, and Assistant Surgeon G. Dew
Brownell, from the navy yard, League Island
and ordered to the Newark.