San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-20

Clude the two companies at Fort
Leavenworth.
Twelfth Regiment - Headquar
tiers and companies + and II
from Fort Leavenworth and com
panies B, G and d from Fort
Sully to Fort Niobrara.
Fourteenth Regiment-Company
H from Fort Leavenworth to Van.
couver.
Seventeenth Regiment - From
Fort D. A Russell to Department
of the east ; headquarters and com.
panies A, G, d, f and G by Octo.
Der l to Columbus barracks, O..
the lieutenant colonel, major and
remaining three companies to the
same station.
Nineteenth Regiment-Company
C, from Fort Maciknac to Fort
Bradick, Mich.
Twentieth Regiment-From the
Department of Dakota to Fort
Leavenworth, Indian company
will remain at Fort Assinaboine.
In connection with the foregoing
the following posts will be aban-
d oned under usual orders, to be
promulgated hereafter: Fort Mar
cy, n. NJ, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort
Machinery, Wyo., Fort SuIly, SD ,
Fort Supply, Ok, Fort Mackinac,
Mich, Fort Ontario, n. Y, New
port barracks, KY, Mount Vernon
barracks, Ala.
Accompanying the new order the
War department made public the
following statement: The order for
the discontinuance of three recruit
ing posts, Davids Island, Column
bia Barracks and Jefferson Bar
racks, contained in the announce
ment that the troops to occupy
these stations would soon be desig-
mated. The orders now issued by
the War department., and which
for some time have been under con-
sideration by Secretary Lamont
and General Schofield, provide gar
Tisons for the old recruiting depots
and also contemplate a consider
able concentration of the troops.
Several of the smaller stations east
of the Mississippi, as well as few
in the western country, are given
up as no longer necessary.
The regiments that are brought
east, in whole or in part, are the
Third and Sixth cavalry, the Thir-
tenth and Seventeenth infantry,
and the whole Twentieth infantry
takes station at Fort Leavenworth.
The Tenth infantry, that has
heretofore been scattered between
five posts from the Pacific coast
to the Mississippi valley, will now
come together at Sill and Reno,
while the whole Fifth regiment,
formerly occupying the five
stations, will now be assembled at
Fort Mcpherson, Ga.
AS soon as the changes are made
in the quarters at Jefferson Bar
racks and Columbus Barracks, the
two troops Of cavalry now ordered
to the former will be joined by four
other troops, and the remainder of
the Seventeenth infantry will be
sent to Columbus Barracks, max
ing the latter a regimental post.
Davids Island, which will be Occu-
pied by the artillery as a modern
fertilization that has been con.
structed there to command the
south entrance to New York harbor,
Is now receiving it's armament and
requires an artillery garrison. Fort
Columbus, on Governors Island,
will hereafter be an infantry post,
to be ultimately increased to a full
regiment.
The total number of companies
now serving east OF the Mississippi
is 100. In future it will be ll9,
occupying thirty-one Posts. The
gain to the East of course comes
from the West, but the number of
Posts remaining west of the Missis-
sippi is forty-ninG and those are
garrisoned by 245 companies, with
out counting the Indian companies,
of which there are seven. 1t will
therefore be seen not more than
twO-thirds Of the regulur army
still remain in the West. Congress
has ordered the building of two
new Posts, one in Montana and
one in Arkansas. When these are
completed other points will be
given up and the troops still furth.
er concentrated.
General Towards command will
be Increased by nineteen compan-
les, the Department of the Platte
loses seven, Colorado four and Da.
kota eight.