The sun., 1902-09-27
The New Army Register.


pears this month instead of in Janu-
ary, is the largest ever issued by
our War Department. II is noteworthy
for other reasons than its size and its
hardness. for it marks the end of an
old and the beginning Of new, army.
For wears our army was limited in num-
hers to -. .O00 men; even the increase that
followed the outbreak of the Philippine
war affected its size comparatively lit
tie. for the additional men were chiefly
volunteers The act Of February, 1901,
made q real addition to the Regular
army, however, and the Register records
that increase II is hardly possible that
future Army Registers will be smaller
than the new volume,
There are one Lieutenant General,
six Maior-Generals and fifteen Briga-
dier-Generals Of the line in the Register,
an important change from the three
Major-G Generals, the senior Of whom
had the rank of Lieutenant General,
| and the six Brigaders Of last years
| Register Instead Of ten cavalry regi-
ments, there are fifteen; in place of
! seven regiments of artillery with ninety
| eight batteries, We have an Artillery
Corps consisting Of thirty batteries Of
field artillery and l26 companies Of coast
| or fortress artillery; the twenty-five regi-
ments Of infantry are now thirty, and tho
single battalion of engineers is multiplied
by three. On July | our army consisted
of 75o3l officers and men Of these
| 1000 were in the cavalry. 1898 in the
artillery and 3?,05o in the infantry,
while the engineers numbered ,t42 and
| the medical department 432i. there
were Si5 signal men and ~ officers and
| men Of the Ordnance Department. The
retired list consisted Of 500 officers and
1875 men. The Porto Rico Regiment
and the Philippine Scouts are not in
cluded in these figures.
The change. since the last Register
was issued, early in 1901, are not con.
fined to the increases in the various
arms of the service, Famous officers
have passed from the active to the re-
tired list or have died officers who won
their spurs in the Rebellion or on Indian
battlefelds. ELwELL :. Otis. HENRY
| c. MERRIAM, MICHAEL '. SHERIDAN,
GEORGE VI. STERNBERG. HENRY NJ.
ROBERT, Prof. NICHE, Col. FRENCH, are
some of those whose retirement or death
is noted in the new volume.
The comparatively short service Of
some of the general officers named in
this years Register is a proof Of the pas
sage of time. Of the twenty-five named,
four saw no service in the Civil War;
one has been less than five years in SER
vice altogether. In fact, throughout
the volume the column wherein is noted
the service of officers in the Volunteers is
filled not with Civil War records, but
with those Of the Spanish and Philip
pine wars The young men are COM
ing TO the top in the army, Twenty-siS
acknowledgements, all with long records
of faithful service, were retired between
January, 1901, and July Of this year.
Eleven officers, the highest in rank a
Captain, we're killed in action or died Of
wounds, and 100 died of disease or acci-
dents, while were dismissed, One
officer, missing since January, 1900
who undoubtedly met his death at the
hands of the Filipinos, has been dropped
from the rolls
An interesting addition to the Regis
ters detail is the name of the college
high school or academy from which az
officer has been graduated. This detail
may be carried TO an extreme, AZ IN III,
case Of an officer who graduated
from business college; but i, shows