The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-23
AT GEN. MILEs,s OFFICE.
Many Visitors and a Press of Work..
Officers of Volunteers.


WASHINGTON, April %. General
Miles's office In the War Department was
filled with visitors nearly the whole morn
ing. Other branches and bureaus of the de-
partment displayed like amount of earn
estness and business-like appearance
throughout the day. The desk of Adjutant
General Corbin, through whose Office all
the movements of the army are directed.
was piled high with kilograms from COM
manding officers in the field and with letters
bearing on army matters which required
prompt answers. General Corbin has COM
municated with the military authorities at
Chattanooga, with a view to ascertaining
how many infantry regiments were stopped
at that place on their way to the South.
1t is not believed that the efforts to stop
them were successful in more than half
dozen cases. General Corbin declines to
say why these regiments have been detained
nor how long they remain at Chickamauga,
to which place they will go from Chatta-
nooga. In military campaigns he says, af-
1alrs are in such condition that it is not
possible to tell what changes the day may
bring forth 1t is supposed, however, that
the ofncials desire to combine the cavalry
and other branches of the service for tenn
porary practice at the battlefield. 1t is
known also that the officials of the War
Department regard Chickamauga as an
ideal place for the concentration of the vol
gnteer army after its equipment in the
What determination has been reached in
the matter, however, has not been dis
closed. Applications for positions of all
suit of the raising of the volunteer army
are being filed at the War Department, and
many senator's and representatives already
called to speak a good word in behalf ct
the applicants
1t is said that no final decision has yet
been reached by the War Department on
the question whether the first and second
classes of the cadets at West Point shall
be graduated in advance of the time ordi-
be surprising, however, that the determine
ton be reached to advance the graduation
OF the first class to a very early date, in
stead of waiting until June ].
General Miles has prepared table show
ing the exact number of officers ;hat will
be comprised within the proposed volunteer
organization. The volunteer army bill will
lows:
Four major generals.
Nine brigadier generals.
-Four assistant adJutant generals, ranking,
respectively. as colonel, lieutenant colonel.
One chief engineer with the rank of
colonel.
Two inspector generals with the rank Of
colonel and lieutenant colonel respectively.
Two chief quartermasters with the rank
of colonel and lieutenant colonel, respec-
lively
One assistant eIartermaster with the
rank of captain.
Two CIlleL COLlInlsSdrleS, Win the rank OF
colonel and lieutenant colonel, respectively.
One assistant comrnissary, with the rank
of captain.
One judge advocate with the rank of gem
eral. 10
Two chief surgeons with the rank OF
colonel and lieutenant colonel
Aids-de-camp authorized by law for the
regular establishment.
These officers are contemplated for
volunteer army organization comprising one
army corps commanded by a major general:
three divisions, each commanded by a
major general; three brigades for each di-
vision, each commanded by a brigadIer gen.
eral, making nine in all; three regiments
to brigade, making in all twenty-seven
regiments, having the usual regimental
complement of officers.