The record-union., 1899-04-13
ARMY REORGANIZATION.
THE ORDER MASTERING OUT
GENERAL OFFICERS.
Some Discharged to Enable Them
to Accept Commissions I'm
der the New Act.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-An order
issued by the War Department to-day
musters out the following General Off
GERS:
Major Generals James H. Wilson,
Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Wheeler, John 2
Bates. Samuel B. M Young, A. r.
Chaffee, William Turlow, Leonard
Wood; Brigadier Generals George w.
Davis, Theo. Schwan, Lloyd Wheaton,
Charles King, Frederick D. Grant, Rob-
ert p. Hughes, Samuel Ovenshine,
Irving Hale, Robert H Hall and H. G.
Otis.
The above named officers are mus
tered out to enable them to accept COM
missions as general officers of volun
teers under the Act of March 3 1899.
1t is expected they will soon be reap
pointed as Brigadier Generals under
that Act
The following officers are mustered
out and will resume their former COM
mands: Major Generals James F. Wade,
Thomas M. Andersop and Guy " Hen
ry; Brigadier Generals r. T. Frank, e.
B. Williston, L. H. Carpenter, j. p
Sanger, H C. Hasbrouck, ]. C. Gill
more. o. H. Ernest and H. F. Hum
phrey.
The officers who are to be reappointed
as Brigadier Generals under the Re
organization Act for duty as volunteers
until July, 1901, are to go out imme
diately some of them to-day, and all
on or before the 18th of this month.
They will not be distu1 bed in their
present commands
The others are to he mustered out en-
June 18th, with the exception of Cen
eral Frank, who goes out May 18th,
and General H. G.. Otis, on July I'd
The order to those officers who are
not to- be reappointed directs those who
are general officers to retain their pres
ent commands, and the others of the
line are to return to their regiments
Their positions in the regular army IS
as follows:
General Wade. Brigadier, now Prcsi
dent of the Beef Inquiry Board; Cen
eral Anderson, Brigadier, on his way
home to assume command of the De-
partment of the Columbia; General
Henry, Brigadier, commanding the De-
partment of Porto Rico. Colonel Frank,
Colonel of First Artillery; Colonel Will
son, Colonel of Sixth Artillery; General
Carpenter, Colonel of Fifth Artillery;
Colonel Sanger, Lieutenant Colonel In
spector Generals Department; Cen
eraI Hasbrouck, Lieutenant Colonel of
Fourth Artillery; General Gilmore
Lieutenant Colonel Adjutant Generals s
Department.; General H. G. Otis ap-
pointed from civil life, now returning
to the United States from Manila. Cen
eral Humphrey, Lieutenant Colonel
Quartermaster's Department, en- duty
as Chief Quartermaster of Cuba.
Four volunteer Major Generals are
retained in service These are: General
E. S. Otis, in command of the United
States forces in the Philippines; Law
ton and Macarthur, his chief Generals
in command of divisions, and General
Shafter, who remains in command OF
the Department of California. He will
retire in October as a Brigadier Gem
eral, and may leave the service.
The present stations of those mus
tered out by order to-day who will be
retained as Brigadier Generals under
the law of March ID are: General Will
son, commanding the Department of
Cienfuegos: General Lee, commanding
the Department of Havana; General
Wheeler, now in washington, but prob
ably going to the Philippines; General
Bates, commanding the Department Of
Matanzas; General Young, in command
of the troops being mustered out with
headquarters at Augusta; General
Chaffee, now in Washington, but at
tached to General Brooke's headquar-
ters; General Ludlow, commanding the
city of Havana; General Wood, COM
manding the Department of Santiago;
General Davis, member of the Beef In
quiry Board; General Schwan, Assist
ant Adjutant General: General Fred
Grant, in Porto Rico, but under orders
to go to Manila; Generals Hall, King,
Wheaton, Hughes, Overshine and Hale,
in the Philippines.