The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-15
NEW MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
Text of the Order Making Change Of
Headquarters to the South.

Text of the Order Making Change of
Headquarters TO tho South.
Washington. ID. c., March 12.-The
text of the War Department order eetab-
fishing the new department of the Gulf
and making other changes is us follows:
General Order No. {.
Headquarters Of the Army.
Adjutant Generals Office,
Washington. ID. c., March II, 1898.
The following orders have been re-
ccived from the War Department and
are published for the information and
guidance of all concerncd:
War Department.
Washington. u. c. March II, 1898.
BY direction of the President. the fol
lowing changes are made in tho terrific
rial limits. designation. and ~headquar-
tcrs Of geographical departments:
i. The Department of the East will
embrace the New England States. New
York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. DcIr-
ware, Maryland. District of Columh;a.
West Virginia, Virginia. and North
Carolina. with headquarters at Cover
nor's Island. \. y.
,. y department is hereby established
to be known as the Department of the
Lakes, to consist of the States of Wis
c%onsin, Michigan. Illinois. Indiana, Ohio,
kentucky and Tennessee. with head
quarters at Chicago. Ills.
). The Department of Dakota will en-
brace the States of Minnesota. North
Dakota. South Dakota, Montana. and
so much of Wyoming and Idaho as is
embraced in the yellow Stone National
Park. With headquarters at st. Paul.
Mimi.
+. The Department Of the Columbia
will embrace the States Of Washington.
Oregon, Idaho teNccpt 50 much off the
latter as is embraced in the yellow
Stone National Park and the Territory
Of Alaska. with headquarters ut Van
couver Barracks. Washington.
;. The Department of California will
embrace the Statos Of California and
Nevada. with headquarters at San
Frarri=c0. Cal.
Il. llp Department of the Colorado
will embrace the States of Wyoming
tcXcept so muoh thereof as is embraced
in the Yellow Stone National Park)
Colorado and Utah, and the Territories
of Arizona and New Mexico. with head
quarters 1T Denver. Colo.
I. The Department of the Platte viii
embrace the States OF Iowa. Nebraska,
Missouri. Kansas and Arkansas. the
Indian Territory and the Territory of
Oklahoma. with headquarters at Omaha,
Ncb.
s. \ department is hereby established
TO be known as the Department Of the
Gulf. to consist of the States of South
Carolina. Georgia. Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas, with
headquarters at ATLANTA, ia.
The Departments Of the Missouri and
Texas are hereby abolished.
The records of the Department of the
Missouri will be transferred to the De
partment Of the Lakes, and those Of the
Department Of Texas to the Department
of the Gulf.
Major General John X. Brooke is as
signed to the command Of the Depart
ment Of the Gulf. The officers of the
several staff departments now on duty
in the Department of the Missouri and
Of Texas are assigned to like duties i'll
the Departments Of the Lakes and Of
the Gulf. respectively.
The travel required under these orders
is necessary for the public service.
(Signed) X. \. .AIGEIt,
Secretary of War.
by command Of Major General Miles:
III. {. CORBI\.
Adjutant General.
General Graham tclcgraphed the War
Department to-day that he would 90 to
Atlanta on Monday next to establish his
headquarters there.
Senator Bacon. of Georgia. WAS at the
Wan Department to-day and expressed
his qualification that Georgia had been
made the center Of the new department,
with ~headouarters at Atlanta. This
step. Mr.. Bacon said. was due entirely
to military considerations and no per
sonal or political motives had figured
in the transaction. Heretofore there
had been only one military center along
the Atlantic. namely. that ut New York.
but the present condition of affairs made
it apparent from Il military standpoint
that it was desirable 10 have another
center on the South Atlantic. AS a re-
suit the interior military center, here
toforn known as the Department of Tn1-