Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the fifth instant, requesting him to "cause to be laid before it, a statement of the effective force, now comprising the military establishment of the United States; also, a statement of the different posts and garrisons, at, and within, which troops are stationed, and the actual number of officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, at each post and garrison respectively; also, to designate in such statement the number of artillerists, and the number of calibre of ordnance at each of the said posts and garrisons."
Subtitle: January 12, 1819. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49883; Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) -- 15th Congress, 2nd session, no. 58
Publisher: Printed by E. De Krafft.
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Statistics; Ordnance and ordnance stores; Military bases; Military departments and divisions; United States. Army
Notes: At head of title, in square brackets: 58.

Report signed on p. 5: J.C. Calhoun.

Includes reports of Daniel Parker, adjutant and inspector general, and of Decius Wadsworth, colonel of ordnance.

Shaw & Shoemaker 49883

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.