The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-13
GENERALS ARE MUSTERED OUT
SOME WILL BE. REAPPoINTED
UNDER REORGANIZATION.
Generals Wheeler and Fred Grant to
= Be Sent to the Philippines-Dis-
position of the Others.


Washington, April 12-An order issued
by the war department today musters out
the following general officers: Major
Generals James H. Wilson, Fitzhugh Lee,
Joseph Wheeler, John P. Bates, Samuel
B. NJ. Young, Adna r. Chaffee, William
Ludlow, Leonard Wood: Brigadier Gener-
ais George w. Davis, Theodore Schwan,
Lloyd Wheaton, Charles King Frederick
D. Grant, Robert p. Hughes, Samuel
Hail.
The above named officers are mustered
out TO enable them to accept commissions
as general officers eff volunteers under
they will soon be reappointed as brigadier
generals under that act.
The following officers are mustered out
and viii resume their former commands
Major Generals James K. Wade. Thomas
M Anderson, Guy V. Henry; Brigadier
Generals Royal T. Frank, Edward Is.
Winston, Louis H. Carpenter, Joseph p.
Sanger, Henry c. Hasbrouck, John G.
Gilmore, Oswald II. Ernest, Harrison q.
Otis, Charles f. Humphrey.
The officers who are to be re-appointed
izatlon act, Tor duty as volunteers until
July, 1901 are to go out Immediately,
some OF them today. and all on or before
the nth of this month. They will not be
disturbed in their present commands.
The others are to be mustered out June
u, with the exception of General Frank
who goes out MAY -, and General Otis
on July 2. The order TO those officers who
are not to be reappOinted directs those
who are general officers to retain their
present 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 president
of the beef inquiry board; General An
derson, brigadier; on his way home to
assume command OF the department of
the Columbia; General Henry, brigadier,
commanding the department of Porto
Rico; Colonel Frank, colonel First artil-
lei'y; Colonel WlllltSon colonel Sixth ar
tillery; General Carpenter, .colonel Fifth
artillery; Colonel Sanger, lieutenant colo
mel, inspector generals department: Cen
eral HaSbrouck lieutenant colonel Fourth
artillery; General Gilmore, lieutenant
colonel, adlutant generals department;
General Ernst, lieutenant colonel engi-
neer corps; General IL. q. Otis. appointed
from civil life, now returning to the
United States from Manila; General Hum
phrey, lieutenant colonel, quartermaster' s
department, on duty as chief quartermas-
ter of Cuba.
Four volunteer major generals are re-
tanned in service. These are General Otis
in command of the United States forces
in the Philippines: Lawtbn and MacAr-
thur, his chief generals in command of
divisions, and General Shafter who re-
mains in command of the department of
California. He viii retire in October as a
br1gadier general and may leave the
service.
The present stations of those mustered
out by order today, who will be retained
as brigadier generals under the law of
March ,, are:
General Wilson, commanding the de-
partment of Cienfuegos: General Lee
commanding the department of Havana;
General Wheeler, now in Washington. but
probably going to the Philippines; Cen
e1al Bates, commanding the department
OF Matanzas; General Young, in command
of the troops being mustered out, with
headquarters at Augusta, Ga; General
Chanee. now in Washington but attached
to General Brookes headquarters; Cen
eral Ludlow, commanding the city of Ha-
vana; General Wood, commanding the
department of Santiago; General Davis.
member beef inquiry board; General
Schwan, assistant adjutant general. Cen
eral Fred Grant, in Porto Rico but un
der orders to go to Manila; Generals Hall.
Wheaton, King. Hughes, Overshine and
Hale, in the Philippines