The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
Text of the War Departments New
Order.

order.
Washington, March 1.-THE text of the
war department order establishing the
new department of the Gulf and making
other changes is as follows
General Orders No. Z, Headquarters of
the Army Adjutant Generals onice,
Washington, March Il. 1S9S-The following
orders have been received from the war
department and are for the information
and guidance of all concerned:
"War Department, Washington, March
H. 1S9S.-By the direction of the President
the following changes are made In the
territorial limits, designation and head
quarters OF geographical departments;
"a. The department of the East will en-
brace the New England states, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
District Of Columbia. West Virginia, Vlr-
ginia and North Carolina, with headquar-
ters at Governors Island, N. Y.
20. A department is hereby established
to be known as the department of the
Lakes to consist of the states of Tennes-
see, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois. IN
diana. Ohio and Kentucky, with head
quarters at Chicago, III.
"3. The department of Dakota will en-
brace the states of Minnesota, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Montana ana so
much of Wyoming and Idaho as is en-
braced In the Yellowstone National Park
with headquarters at ST. Paul, MINI.
"a. The department of the Columbia
will embrace the states OF Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Except so much of the
latter as is embraced in the Yellowstone
National parltl and the tarriforv NJ AIaa-
ka, with headquarters at Vancouver bar
racks, Washington.
IS. The department of California will
embrace the states of California and Nc
vada, with headquarters at San Francisco
Cal.
'6. The department Of the Colorado will
embrace the states of Wyoming Except
so much thereof as is embraced in the yell
lowstone National Park). Colorado and
Utah and the territories of Arizona and
Now Mexico. with headquarters at Den
yer, Col.
~. The department OF the Platte will
embrace the states of Iowa, Nebraska
Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, the In
dian territory and the territory of Okla
hama, with headquarters at Omaha.
"S. A department is hereby established
to be known as the department OF the
Gulf, to consist of the states of South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-.
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas with head,
quarters at Atlanta, Ga.
'@rhe departments of the Missouri and
Texas are hereby abolished.
The records of the department OF the
Missouri win be transferred to the depart
ment of the lakes, and those of the de-
partment of Texas to the department OF
the Gulf.
Maj. Gen. John II. Brooke Is assigned
to the command of the department of the
lakes, and Brig. Gen. William Graham TO
the command of the department of the
Gulf The officers of the several staff de-
partments now on duty in the departments
Of the Missouri and Of Texas are assigned
TO like duties in the departments of the
lakes and of the Gulf respectively.
THE travel required under these orders
is necessary for the public service.
"R. A. Alger. Secretary of War"
"By command OF Maj.-Gen Miles.
III. G. Corbin, adjutant general"
Gen. Graham telegraphed the war de-
partment that he would go to Atlanta on
Monday next to establish his headquarters
there.
Senator Bacon OF Georgia was at the
war department to-day and expressed his
qualification that Georgia had been made
The center OF the new department with
headquarters at Atlanta. This step, Mr..
Bacon said. was due entirely to military
considerations and no personal or political
motives had figured in the Transaction
Heretofore there has been only one mili-
tary center along the Atlantic, namely
New York, but the present condition of af-
fairs made il apparent from a military
standpoint that IL was desirable to have
another center on the South Atlantic. AS
a result the interior military center, here
tofore known as department OF Texas had
been moved eastward and centered at At
lanta.