The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1899-11-10
ADJUTANT CORBIN
MAKES REPORT
Dives Some interesting Figures Re-
gardlng Ills Department.
RECOMMENDED
Work Of Recruiting and Muster
ing Out Troops Is Detailed.

The annual report Of the adiutant
general of tho army, Brigadier Gen
eral Corbin, to the secretary Of war
was made public Wednesday. Aside
from the strictly technical recital Of all
the details Of a busy year in military
life, the report gives much information
of an interesting general character,
and submits numerous recommends
tions for the betterment Of the service.
General Corbin sums up the mill
tary forces now in the service of the
United States as regular army, O., $50;
volunteers, 34,574; total, SO, 100. The
regular establishment consists Of ten
regiments Of cavalry, seven Of Rrtil-
lery and twenty-five Of infantry. The
volunteer establishment consists Of
one regiment of cavalry, twenty-four
of infantry and Porto Rico battalion.
The distribution Of these troops up
to Oct. lst, last, was as follows:
In the United States, "A, 900; Porto
Rico, 1868; Cuba, II, 1877; Philip
pines, 32,315; en- route to the Philip
pines, 1909; Alaska, 400; Hawaiian
islands, 466.
General Corbin adds the following
to this summary:
cit is expected that by December
1st, next, all the infantry regiments,
United States volunteers, shown above
as in the United States, will have
sailed for the Philippine islands.
These, with the troops now there, will
give total strength of 2,117 officers
and SO, COS enlisted men.
The service of many troops after
their enlistments had expired causes
General Corbin to say in his report:
"The patriotism Of the regulars and
volunteers, who enlisted only for the
war with Spain, by willingly and &C
lively serving after the expiration of
their terms of service, calls for evil
dence of appreciation, and it is recon-
mended that each officer and man Of
the several volunteer organizations
who continued in the service in the
Philippine islands after the End Of
March, 1899, until honorably dischrg-
ed, be awarded a suitably inscribed
medal.
General Corbin pays a tribute to the
officers of the new colored regiments,
drawn from the non-commissioned
officers of the colored regiments in
the regular army, or from those who
saw service in the war with Spain,
and says it is believed the best equip
ped men Of the colored citi2enry have
been commissioned. During the year
there have been 62,175 enlistments
and re-enlistments, of which 30, 024
were native born and 9,151 foreign
born. In point of color Sc, 1874 were
white, 5000 colored and 20 Indians.
The following recommendation ia
made for extra pay for officers serving
in our new possessions:
"The pay OF all officers below the
grade OF brigadier general should be
increased at least 93t per cent while
on duty In Cuba or our new posses
sions. Most Of these gentlemen have
families that they are unable TO have
with them, and are, therefore, com
PEELED to maintain two establishments
Also, that provision be made that al
officers below the grade OF major gen
eral who retire by reason OF age Oh
wounds received in action shall do 81
on the next grade above the rank hello
by them in the regular army on thu
date of their retirement.