Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-16
ROSTER FOR POST
Most Comprehensive List Of Officers Of
Missouri Department.
EIGHT THOUSAND TROOPS IN ALI
BriEadIer General Morton in Com
nand of Post that Embraces
several OF the Bis
states.

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The new roster OF the Department Of the
Missouri has just come from the hands OF
the printer and is one OF the most com
prehensive rosters yet published by the
department.
The Department OF the Missouri embraces
the states OF Iowa, Nebraska. South Da-
kota. wyoming Except that part included
in the Yellowstone National Park, Kansas
and Missouri. Headquarters are In Omaha
and the official staff OF the department Is
as follows:
Brigadier General Charles Morton. United
States army, commanding. Personal staff,
First Lieutenant Irwin l.. Hunsaker, Ninth
calvary, aide-de-camp; Second Lieutenant
Troup Miller, Seventh cavalry, alde-de-
camp. Department staff-Chief Of staff.
Lieutenant Colonel William p. Evans, gem
eral staff corps; adjutant general, Major
Chase w. Kennedy, adjutant generals de-
partment; inspector general, Major Jacob
O.. Galbraith,- Inspector generals depart
ment; Major James b. ErWln, assistant in
spector general; Judge advocate, Captain
Fred E. Buchan, acting Judge advocate;
chief quartermaster. Major Daniel K. Nc
onel Frank e. Eastman, suosist-
ence department, purchasing commits
ssry, Omaha, to report, October l;
chief surgeon. Lieutenant Colonel William
B. Davis, medical department; chief pay
master, Major Herbert NJ. Lord, pay de-
partment washington. D; CT chief engineer
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OF engineers; chief ordnance officer, First
Lieutenant Irwin l.. Hunsaker, Ninth
cavalry, aide-de-camP; chief signal oiiiee5'
signal corps, commanding Fort Omaha,
Neb.; Inspector small arms practice, MAJOR
Chase w. Kennedy, adJutant general
Captain John L. Hines, in charge Of the
quartermaster depot at Omaha, is, during
the temporary absence Of Major d.. Il.
Mccarthy at the military tournament at
st. Joseph. Mo-, acting as chief quarter
master Of the department.
Major Bradner ID. Slaughter OF the pay
department is acting chief paymaster dur
ing the absence of Lieutenant Colonel h.
NJ. Lord in Washington.
other general officers serving in the de-
partment are Brigadier General Frederick
Funston, commandant of the army service
schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and
Brigadler General John b. Kerr. command
ant of the mounted service school at Fort
Riley, Kan.
Troops in the Department
The following troops are now serving IN
the department:
Engineers-Third battalion, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Signal Corps-Companies b, d and H,
Fort Omaha, Neb.
Cavalry-Second, Fort Des Moines, la.
Fourth, headquarters and First and Third
squadrons, Fort Meade, s. D.: Seventh,
Fort Riley, Kan.; Eighth. headquarters
and Troops A, b, c, d. 1, X and L, Fort
Robinson, Neb. Troops e and II, Fort d.
A. Russell, Wyo.; Troop NJ. Fort Washakie,
Wyo.; Ninth, Troop G, Fort L~eavenworth,
KAN; Tenth. Troop NJ, Fort Riley, Kan.
Thirteenth, Third squadron, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Field Artillery-second regiment, head.
quarters, staff, band and Batteries c. Z
| and F, Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo.; Fourth
regiment, Battery E, Fort d. A. Russell
Wyo.; Fifth regiment. Batteries c., D.. +
and F, Fort Leavenworth, Kan; Sixth
| regiment, Fort Riley, Kan.
Infantry-Eleventh. Third battalion. Fori
D. A. Russell, wyo.; Thirteenth, Fort lea.
venworth, Kan; Sixteenth, headquarters
and Second and Third battaiions. Fort
Crook. Neb.; Nineteenth, Third battalion
Fort Mackenzie. Wyo.
There are in all about 5000 troops Of the
regular army in the department, which Il
the largest not only in military strength
but in territorial area of any of the mill
tary departments OF the United States.
There are three brigade posts, Fort Lea
venworth, Fort Riley and Fort d. A. Rus
sell in the department and three regimenta
posts. Forts Meade, Crook, Des Moines and
| Robinson.
At Fort L~eavenworth is the great arm!
service school, which equals West Point II
its educational department for the militar!
service. At Fort Riley is the grea
ounted service school and schools for al
the artisan departments of the service. A
Fort Omaha is the great signal service an,
balloon school, and in brief the Depart
ment of the Missouri is the most importan
of all the military departments of tn,
country.