8
Annual Report of tbe Secretary of Wr,
lion. Eitvln M. Ntanton.
"MA rKPARTMKNT, WASIIIHOTO! ClTT, No
vember 14, 1800. Mr. President: lllabandmont
fine volunteer forooa in service at the time the
jtetx-1 armies grtrrentlered; collecting the arms,
rdnance and military stores scattered over the
vast theatre of war; tho sale and disposition of
Unserviceable material; storing in arsenals,
nngaslnes and depots that which might be
seat settling and adjusting war claims; re
rninnir and nraanir.tne the regular army un
tho recent Vict; the establishment of postsJ1hd ,
arrlsons on the frontier and In the Indian 'l
country, testing the various lmproveiienia of A
treedh-loaUlug smuu arms, ana supplying them
o tho army; practloal experiments to aetermln '
thetfestrnctive power of proJecQes and ttoo
comparative resisting tiualltlfcs i materials
completing seaboard defenses and .providing
kemlth armaip.entg; planning -and carrying
on harbor and river improvements; these, with
the administration or the aws relating to refu
gees, tfrccdmen and auundonod lnntls, have
constituted the chief operations of tho War De
partment during the past year.
Mnslcrfng 0it or Trofl;
The entire number f volunteer troops to be
mustered out ',vbb, on May 1, W, 1,034,004, and
my last auniral report recounted the operation
f disbanding itils force until November 15,
lt(66, when WKJ.ttBS troops had been transported,
mustered out stud pnid. The work was actively
continued after that date, and on January 20,
1W6, M8,72 volwti leers had been mustered out;
February 16, W,4r2; March 10, 007,!So7; May 1,
SK8.7S2; Jun.e 30, 1,010,070; Novembur 1, 1.0i,t21
leaving In. service, 11,043 volunteers, white and
colored, i'lra ngrcgute reduction of the colored
troops d aii-ng llio yenr has beun 75,024, and at
thisdat one regiment of artillery and thirteen
I info jjlry, numbering about 10,000 olliecra and
enlist ni mton, remain In tho service. Coin
Mem jedln May, T8C5, the work of discharging
and returning to their homes 1,034,001 volun
teer should have been completed within three
1100 Slbs but for the necessity of retaining In
Bfir ice part of that force. Past experience
oira'Miiil, should any national emergency re
re lumer forco than is provided by tho
P ooo establishment, armies could be swiftly
rgnnizcil to at leust the lull strength of a wll-
ou ol iuon.
Rednctlon of Expenses,
The reduction of the army has been attended
y a corresponding reduction of material and
Retrenchment of expenditures. The advanced
depots of 'the Quurlermtuiler's Department,
'which has-been established as bases of opera
1ions, have been broken up; the greater part of
the material sold at advantageous rales or con
centrated in Ave principal depots and arsenals;
-and ell unnecessary employees discharged.
From May 1, 1805, to August 2, 1806, over 07.000
horses and mules were sold for $15.'209,07o-51.
About 4400 barracks, hospitals aud other build
ings have been sold during the year for $147,
73'14. The sale of Irregular and damaged cloth
ing in store produced, during the tlscal year, the
sum of S!tOi!,770-45. The fleet of 600 ocean trans
ports in service on July 1, 1805, at a dally ex
pense of $82,400, was reduced before June 30,
18(H), to 63 vessels, costing $3000 per diem, and
nuost of these have since been discharged ocean
transportation being now almost entirely con
tlucted by established commercial lines of
. steamers. Of 'Mi'i vessels wlilcu had been em
ployed in inland transportation, at an expense
- of 3.103,533-28, none were remaining in service'
on June 30, J800; sales of river transports,
steamers and burues during the year are re
ported as amouutluB to i.lj2,8iio-02. The rates
of wagon transportation lu lue inaiaa country
have also been reduced by favorable contracts.'
The military railroads, which were operated
during the war at a total expenditure of $45,
4ffi,7iyl5, and which are oilielally retried to
have reached an cxlout of 2C30l miles, and to
have possessed 433 engines and 0005 curs, have
all been transferred lo companies or boards of
ft!!! IMIU' OlfU J v' u " iiiu uiiiutniv vja jo uu
are reported, and credit sales of $7,444,073.22; upon
the latter there have beeu paid, prinoluul and
Interest, tl.2t 0,085-18; leaving due to tue United
Ktates, on Jane 80, 1800, princtoal and Interest,
id 670,074-05. The military telegraph, which at
tained an extent of 15, 38!) miles of Hues con
structed during the period of hostilities, with a
total expenlliure or 3.219,400 during the war,
and t507,37 during the lust fiscal year, has been
discontinued, the material sold and disposed of,
and the employees discharged, only a few confi
dential operators being still retained for cipher
correspondence with commanders of important
districts. ,
Sale of Government Property.
Such subsistence stores as could not be re
tained for. supplying the reduced army have,
for the most part been sold at satisfactory
wrlces. i i i '
The sale of unserviceable and surplus stores
pertaining to the signal corns has been effected;
most of the officers have been mustered out,
and the employees discharged.
All the temporary ordnance depots established
during the war, with the exception of that at
Hilton Head, where the work is in progress but
not completed, have been discontinued, and
the supplies .have been sent to arsenals for
storage, or when not worth the cost of trans
portation have been sold. The expenditures of
arsenals have been greatly, diminished, aud
tneir operations limited.
General hospitals, hospital transports aud
railroad trains, ambulance corps and a number
f medical purveying depots have been dis
pensed with, and all perishable articles of
medicines and hospital supplies, in excess of
the requirements of a peace establishment,
have been disposed tif by public sale at advan
tageous rates, and the reserve supplies concen
trated -at five depots. The proceeds of old or
surplus medical aud hospital property amount
to $4,04401-59.
But tbe sale and disposition of these large
amounts of unswviceable aud perishable stores
still leave on band an adequate supply of war
material to meet any emergency thut cau pos-.
Hibly arise, 'lhe stock of clothing, equipage,
quartermaster, subsistence, hospital aud ord
inance Btores, arms, ammunition and Held ar
tillery iBBUttioient for the immediate equipment
of large armies. The disbanded troops stand
ready to respond to tha national call, and, with
our vast means ol transportation and rapid
organization developed during the war, they
an be organized, armed, equipped and concen
trated at whatever points military emergency'
may require. While, therefore, the war ex
penses have been reduced to tho footing of a
moderate and econoraloul peace establishment,
the national military strength remains unim
paired and in conditiou lo be promptly put
iortu.
While the reduction of the volunteer force
and the advantageous disposition or concentra
tion of war material were t hus successfully ac
complished without diminishing the military
power of the country, recrultiug and reorgan
ising the regular army favorably progressed.
In consequence of tha difficulty In procurlug
enlistments for tha regular while so many men
were required for the volunteer service, 153 com
panies of the regular army, as then authorized,
-were unorganized on May 31, 1865, but in the
middle of the following July these companies
Jind been completed. Under the act of July 28,
Jwtf, the regular army now comprises 10 regi
ments, or 120 companies, of cavalry. 6 regiments,
or 60 companies, ot artillery, and 45 regiments,
or 450 companies, of Infantry: of which i cavalry
and 4 infantry are composed of colored men,
atnd 4 Infantry regiments of men who were
fwounded in the line of their duty. One regi
ment of white cavalry had been fully recruited
on Bepleinber 15; the other regiment, asslgued
to the 1'aoitto coast, la very nearly completed.
Forty-eight of the bi companies required to con
Tert Into regiments the single battalions of the
vine three-battalion regiments of the former
organization have beu completed aud scut to
their regiments. -
The 4 Veteran Reserve reatments have been
assigned to districts where th men may be
usefully employed in guarding storehouses aud
cemeteries, and on similar duties. The colored
regiments will be recruited, as far as possible,
from the colored volunteers still in service
The law authorizes an assignment of 100 privates
to a company as the maximum, 50 being th
- lnlmum, and the maximum strength of the
,.. ay is thus placed at 75,382. rank and file. The
ent strength of companies is fixed at 61 prl
for cavalry, artillery, and infantry and
vaa mi lvates for light batteries of artillery,
nlkSn' aggregate strength of 54,302. As
he ranks shall be well filled, it isde
iVned to .'ncresse thoreffloioncy of the military
ti.ree bv rak,lnB tne audard of qualifications.
The troooa In service were regularly paid, and
iv. rfrnaiila tt those discharged and mustered
ul nromnt V nk- Daring the fiscal year end.
THE -DAILY EVgyG TELEGRAPH. PI1ILADELPIIU, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 18C&
Millturv Acfldomr. $24R.rVf .. 1 ... m..trxiA ih t v-li Af Tni or. iqaa - . ." '
th
e army and Military Academy. $24,M."
volunteers; and in the disbursement Ai"j
.LJlnra In amoll lllllll ftnil .4 fll mil"
to
lion
difficulties and hasards," the to' amid great
Government, in expenses of f vost Wine
bnt a fractional portion of - -WT character, la
Every efTort has bee- m per cent,
comfort and health o' fciade to promote the
best medical trer' .t thenrmy, and to give the
sick. Well grr -tVtnt to the wounded and
prarance o' apprehensions ef the ap-
early in - Asiatic cholera as an epidemic,
action ' present year, required prompt
m'ii' 1e protection of our troops. A rigid
u .rtVy quarantine Was established on the
yillHrn Atlantic const, and sanitary precau
tions enforced. Tho adoption at these measures
averted to control or eradicate the disease, at
the recruiting depotsand forts where Itappeared,
before it asMimcd its usual alarming epidemic
form; and ofnolal recognition has been given to
the meritorious services of medical officers
vwtaose fidelity, energy and skillful admiulstra
tlon succeeded in averting or diminishing the
horrors of wide spread pestilence. In other
respects Wie general 4ieallh of the troops has
been good. A mong white troops the proportion
of deaths, from all onuses, to cases treated, has
been one to evefy fifty-two. Among colored
troops the proport ion of cases taken sick has
been greater thau with the while troops, and
the mortality rate one death to every twenty
nine eases treated. There were remaining in
KPtieral hospitals, June 80, 180."), and admitted
ourlng the year, 0,4:t8 patients, of whom, on
June SO, lHtifl, only 97 remained under treatment.
The comfort and proper medloal treatment of
the sick and wounded are secured in well
arranged post hospitals, of which there are at
present 187, with a total capacity of 10,881 beds.
Measures have been adopted for the purpose
of providing suitable shelter for the troops now
stationed on tbe plains, and for those which
may be ordered thither, and to prevent Butter
ing during the winter. The army has beeu well
supplied with forage, about one half the quan
tity having beeu sunpllod from the slock re
maining on bnnd at the cessation of hostilities.
The consumption for the year has been 8,300,000
bushels of oats, 5,001,000 bushels of corn, 130,000
tons of hay, 2700 tons of straw.
(Subsistence stores of good quality have been
supplied to the army, and though the larger
pait has been obtained at the principal market
centres of the Northern States, yet the general
return of the citizens, North aud South, to the
productiveness of peace, and the cousequeut
reopening of the customary channels and
sources of trade, have euabled a partial resump
tion of the course of procurlug supplies at the
points where thoy are to bo consumed. Elglity
nine contracts for fresh beef have been made m
tho Southern Htates. at a eeneral average price
of 11.00 ceuts per pound, and lu the interior of
those States other articles to a Bmall extent
have been purchased. The market at New Or
leans is now so well furnished, and has so far
resumed a healthful mercantile condition, as
to render it possible to procure there, at satis
factory prices, most of the subsistence Btores
required in the Department of the Gulf,
On the Paclllo coast, for several years after
Call lorn la was admitted to the Union, all the
supplies! for troops there stationed were re
quired to be shipped from New York, but an
ample and reliable market, comprising the
products of California and Orcgou, aud the
lorelgn countries bordering upon the same
ocean, is now found in Sun Francisco, and most
of the subsistence stores for troops in the Divi
sion of the l'aciilc have been there obtained. In
general tho subsistence supplies purchased
during the year have been procured udoii con
tracts, concluded in pursuance of advertise
ments for sealed proposals, written proposals,
and acceptances.
The Importance of speedily providing the
army with, breech-loading small arms of the
best pattern has been recognized nnd acted
upon. By an order of January 3, 1800, a board
of competent officers was convened tor tne
purpose of examining, testing and reporting on
the various models of original breech-loaders,
and the various plans for the conversion into
imoh.iuiara x tne arms heretofore borne by
our troops.
This Board met on March 10, and continued In
session until June 4, when its report was sub
mitted, and directions have been given the
Ordnance Department for the speedy manu
facture of breech-loading arras. In view of the
great number of small arms on hand, it has
been deemed advisable to convert Springfield
rille-muskets, at a comparative small cost, into
efficient breech-loaders, rather than lo incur the
cost of the entire manufacture of new arms of
that description, at a time, too, when the inven
tion may not have been perfected. This altera
tion of the Springfield musket lias been effected
so successfully as to render it an arm believed
to be better in all respects than the Prussian
needle gun, while its metallic ammunition is
regarded as superior to that of the latter. 1 The
Department Was already on hand breech-loaders
of approved patterns adequate for the supply of
the eavalrv. and mounted and light infantry.
Besides the measures that have been men-"
tloned to provide for the cointori ana promote
the efficiency of the army, stated monthly in
spections have been made in every military
command during the year, with a view to bring
to notice and promptly remedy any irregulari
ties and defects; and numerous special inspec
tions have also been maae mreugnout trie
whole country, for the purpose of correcting
abuses, suggesting Improvements, and effecting
retrenchment in the service. Tho inspection
service has not been changed by the return to
peace; the system developed during the war,
meeting the requirements as nearly as practi
cable, is still continued.
The present organization of military depart
ments and divisions is as follows:
lhe Department of the East, Major-General
George G. Meade to command, to embrace the
New Knaland States. New York. New Jersey.
Pennsylvania and Fort Delaware. Head-quar
ters at l'tiiiaueipina.
Tbe Department of the Lakes,- Brigadier and
Brevet Major-General Joseph Hooker-to com
mand, to embrace tbe Stlaes of Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois aud Wisconsin, Head-quarters
at Detroit.
The Department of Washington, Brigadier
and Brevet Major-General K, It. S. Can by to
command, to embrace the District of Columbia,
Alexandria and Fairfax counties, Virginia, and
the States of Maryland and Delaware, except
Fort Delaware. Head-quarters at Washington.
The Department of the Potomac, Brigadier
and Brevet Major-General John M. Schodeid to
command, to embrace the States of Virginia,
except Alexandria and Fairfax counties, and
West Virginia. Head-quarters at Richmond.
The Department oi the South, Major-General
Daniel K. Sickles to command, to embrace the
States of North and South Carolina, Head
quarters at Charleston.
The Department of Tennessee, Major-General
George 11. Thomas to command, to embrace the
States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, Head-quarters at Louis
ville.
The Department of tbe Gulf, Major-General
Phillip H. Sheridan to command, to embrace
the Slates of Florida, Louisiana aud Texas.
Head-quarters at New Orleans.
The Department of the Arkansas, Brigadier
and Brevet Major-General K. O. O. Ord to com
mand, to embrace the State of Arkansas and
Indian Territory west. Head-quarters at Little
Kock.
The Department of theMlsseurl, Major-General
W infield S. Hancock to command, to em
brace the States of Missouri and Kansas, and
the Territories of Colorado and New M ex loo.
Head-quarters at Fort Leavenworth.
The Department of the Platte, Brigadier and
Brevet Major-General Philip St. George Cooke
to command, to embrace the State of Iowa, the
Territories of Nebraska and Utah, bo much of
Dacota as lies west of the 104th meridian, and
so much of Montana as lies contiguous to the
new road from Fort Laramie to Virginia city,
Montana. Head-quarters at Omaha.
The Department of Daoota, Brigadier and
Brevet Major-General A. H. Terry to command,
to embrace the State of Minnesota and all the
Territories of Dakota and Montana not em
braced in the Department of the Platte. Head
quarters at Fort Suelllng.
The Department of California, Brigadier and
Brevet Major-General Irvln McDowell to com
mand, to embrace the Stales of California and
is'evada, and the Territory of Arizona. Head
quarters at San Francisco.
The Department of the Columbia, Major
General Frederick Steele to command, to em
brace the Slate of Oregon and the Territories of
Washington aud Idaho. Head-quarters at
Portland.
The principal movements of troops have been
in Texas, on the Mexican frontier, and in the
Territories, the details of which are given in the
accompanying report of General Grant, com
manding the armies of the United States, aud
the reports of division and department com
manders, to which reference is made. General
Grant reports that a military force has beeu
kept in all the lately rebellious States for the
purpose of iusurlng the execution of law, and
protecting lire and property against tbe aets of
those who, as yet. wl(l acknowledge no law but
force aclass smallor, In hlsopiulou, than could
have been expected after such a conflict as that
through which we have passed, but sufficiently
formidable to justify the course which has been'
pursued. Military movements have also been
directed with a vew to the protection of eml-
nn th.i in thnmonntaln Territories
against the hostility and opposition of the In
d Bcsl'dea the operations thus recapitulated, of
reduction, concentration, reireuu mis un
reorganisation ol the military establishment,
and payment, complete equipment, and dispo
sition of the army, other matters of nalloual
importance and interest have received the care
ful attention of the War Department.
The permanent defenses of the country nave
been strengthened. Their efficiency has already
been much Increased by substituting cannon of
larger calibre and improved model for lighter
guns, and wrought iron for wooden gun car
riages. This work is still in progress, and will
be continued. Diligent and careful efforts, based
upon thedeslgnsand recommendations of com
petent boards of engineers, have been made to
adapt old works, as well as those in process of
construction, to more powerful armaments.
Construction has been suspended upon some
works, in order lo await the completion of lm
portnntxicriments having In view the exten
sive use of iron shields or armor for the protec
tion of guns and gunners; the results already
attained give the promise of a practloal aud
htnlily beneficial application ol the knowledge
obtained by these trials.
Surveys of the lakes have been continued,
and progress has already boon made in Improv
ing tne harbors and rivers of the country. The
work will be energetically prosecuted under
the liberal appropriations made at tne last ses
sion of Congress.
Active and careful measures have oenl In
stituted for successfully and speedily carrying
into effect the generous provisions of Congress
for the benefit of surviving soldiers of the war
lor the Union. The subject of the payment of
extra bounties to discharged soldiers, and ex
tra pay to discharged officers, has received
assiduous attention. The recent law devolving
upon the War Department, Instead of the
accounting officers of the Treasury, the duties
of exumlnallon and settlement ot claims of this
nature, imposed avast accumulation of labor,
and required the consideration of numerous
acts of Congress and the regulations and prac
tice of several bureaus; upou the proper per
formance of these extraordinary labors depends
the disbursement of nearly eighty millions of
initials among more than a minion or claim
ants. Soon alter the adjournment of Congress
a competent board of officers was organized to
prepare rules and regulations for the payment
of the authorized bounties. DUllgcut applica
tion was given to the work, and the regulations,
having been found to bo in strict accordance
With law, were promptly approved, published
and directed to be carried Into effect.
To the same board the subject of bounties for
colored soldiers was also referred, with a view
to provide any additional checks that might
guard the boanty from fraudulent assignees
and secure It to colored soldiers, and protect
the Treasury against fraud; and when the
report was received, payment of the bounties
was ordered. As to the other class of bounties,
the Paymaster-General regards it impracticable
to make payment uulil all applications shall
have been received, and claims classified aud
registered by States and organizations: but by
this preliminary process the ultimate payment
of all will, it is believed, be greatly expedited.
Attempted otherwise, probably the work would
never be fully accomplished. Of the valuable
Eublio records by which the validity of the
ouiity claims is to be tested, there is in the
archives of the Government but one copy,
already much worn, for eaoh period. An ex
amination for eucli individual case would soou
reduce them to illegible shreds.
Tbe duty of the Government to the soldiers
who have been maimed or have fallen lu its
deleuse has not been neglected. Much care
bus been taken, by precautions and practical
tests, to secure lor the former the most durable,
tiseiul and comfortable artificial limbs. From
J uly 10, 1802, tbe date of tho act of Congress
authorizing artificial limbs to be furnished, to
July 1, 1800, there have been supplied lo disabled
soldiers 3981 legs, 2240 arms, 0 feet, 55 hands, 125
surgical apparatus, and it is supposed that not
more than 1000 limbs remain still tobesupplied,
outiniutod cost of $70,000. In order to
Include uuionuunio ch i.wAi..,,
nature of the injury or operation, no limb or
oilier surgical appliance can be advantageously
adopted, theSurgeon-General has.recom mended
that, if lhe appropriation for this purpose shull
be continued, the money value oi au artificial
limb, in lieu of an order for the apparatus, be
given to the maimed soldier. Forty-one
national military cemeteries have beeu esta
blished, and into these had already been
gathered, on Juno 30, the remains of 104,520
Union soldiers.
The sites lor ten additional cemeteries have
been selected, and the work upon them, ful
some time delayed by the climate and a
threatened epidemic, Is now in course of vigor
ous ' prosecution. Although it may not be
desirable to remove the remains of those now
reposing in other suitable burial grounds, it is
estimated that our national cemeteries will be
required to receive and protect the remains of
249,397 patriotic soldiers whose lives were sacri
ficed in defense of our national existence., The
average cost of the removals and reinterments
already accomplished is reported at 89-75,
uiiiiiiinling in tho aggregate to 81,144.791: audit
is believed that an additional expeudituro of
(1,009,294 will be necessary. It is proposed,
Instead of the wooden headboards heretofore
used, to erect at the graves small monuments
of cast iron, suitably protected by zinc coaling
against rust. Six lists of the dead, contalulug
82,000 names, have beeu published by the Q,uar-termaster-Geueral,
and others will be issued
as rapidly as they can be prepared.
Documents submitted by the chiefs ofbuveaus.
and accompanying this report, contain detailed
information relative to the operations of the
W ar Department, aud the requirements of its
respective branches.
The total esMmale of military appropriations
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1808, is 125,205,
60SK0. The Adjutant General's office has immediate
supervision of recruiting for the regular army,
and disbanding the volunteer force, and charge
also of the records and unfinished business of
the Provost Murshal-Geuerars bureau, which,
lu uccor!iince with act of July '28, 1800, was uis
continued on August 28. Arrangements have
bet n made for the prompt sett lement of the un
determined questions formerly pertaining to
that bureau, aud for the removal to Washington
of the records of its offices in the various States.
The estimated appropriation required for the
purposes of the Atljutant-6cneral's office is
i300,000.
The officers of the Inspector-General's Depart
ment are now those of tbe regular establish
ment, und they are all engaged in their legiti
mate duties ot stated and special inspections.
No appropriation is required for this service.
In lhe Bureau of Military Justice, during the
past year, 8148 records of courts-martial and
military commissions have been received, re
viewed and riled; 4008 special reports made as
to the regularity of Judicial proceedings, the
pardon of military offenders, the remission or
commutation of sentences, and upon the mis
cellaneous subjects and questions referred for
lhe opinion of the bureau; including also letters
of instruction upon military law and practice
to Judge advocates and reviewing officers. Tho
number of records of military courts received at
this bureau reached a minimum soon after the
adoption of the recent Army act, aud since that
time has Increased with the military force. The
other business of the office, as an advisory
branch of the War Department, will also it is
believed, continue to be augmented until the
peace establishment shall be completely organ
ized and the new army fully recruited; and the
lact that, in a large number of Important cases
commanders of departments aud armies are not
authorized to execute seuteuces in time of peace,
and that such cases can no louger be summarily
disposed of without a reference to the Execu
tive, will also require from the bureau a very
considerable number of reports which hereto
fore have not been called for. Its aggregate
business will. It Is thought, not be reduood la
proportion tq the reduction of the mllltarv
force. '
In the Quartermaster's Department the re.
turns and accounts of officers responsible for
clothing and equipage during the year have
been examined and transmitted to the Trea
sury for final settlement. The erection of the
fire-proof warehouse at Philadelphia, for which
Congress made an appropriation on July 28 will
be commenced so soou as the proposals now In
vited by publio advertisement shall have been
received and compared; and authority is de
sired for the purchase or a site and erection of a
similar structure at Jeff'ersonvllle, Indiana.
During tbe fiscal year ocean transportation has
been furnished for 131,581 men; inland transpor
tation for 1,010,300 persons, 138,389 animals, 10,370
wheeled vehicles, and 420,000 tons of stores of all
kinds; and the greater part of the bills for trans
portation during the war have been settled and
paid. Claims, principally under the aotof July
4, 1804, have been filed during the year to the
amount of over 811,000,000, upon which about
11,000,000 have been paid. ' No further appropri
ations are required for the regular service of the
quartermaster's Department, as it is believed
that the balances now available, and the sums
received and to be received, will suffice for the
next fiscal year. For contingencies the sum of
1100.000 is requested.
The Subsistence Department l engaged, under
the Joint resolution of July 25, 18(W, In paying
npon certificates given by the fUirnmlssarv-
tleneral of Prisoners, commutat'.m of rations to
those United States soldiery no were held as
prisoners of war. Tobacco u now furnished to
the enlisted men of the army, under proper
regulations. The settlement of accounts of
officers who have performed duty with the
Subsistence Department has rapidly progressed.
Claims under tho act of July 4, 1(M, whloti have
been Hied in the Subsistence Office, amount in
the aggregate to fl.758,031-04, on which 185 318-10
have been allowed. Claims amounting lo 81,021-123-70,
await final examination and decision.
The total amount of money drawn from the
Treasury and disbursed by the Subsistence De
partment during the past fiscal year, was
17,518,872-54, including payment of claims under
the act or July 4. 1801. The amount disbursed
during the fiscal years of the war was:
From July I, issi, to June mi, im2 $4A,7!)9.S2114
From July 1, lwu, to June no, ltui.1 6U M7,.w.!-78
From July 1, luta, to June 80, IH.il
From July 1, 1RH4, to J una M, pwia 144,7M,!I9 4t
From July 1, im, to Juue 00, 186 7.6l,H7i 54
Total amoDDt....M .l69,3us.H4-37
No appropriation Is required for the next
fiscal year.
Arrangements will soon be consummated by
the Medical Department for the permanent se
curity of its valuable mortuary records, In
cluding 10,000 folio volumes of hospital regis
ters, 47,000 burial records, 10,000 hospital muster
and pay rolls, alphabetical registers of the dead,
containing 250,000 names of white and 20,000 of
colored soldiers, and the pathological collection
constituting the Army Medical Museum. Dur
ing the year official evidence, obtainable from
no other source, of cause of death, or of dis
charge for disability, has been furnished m
49,212 cases, and 210,027 discharges npon certifi
cates of disability have been examined and
classified. The total number of surgical cases
classified and recorged Is, of wouuds, 133,952,
aud of operations, 28,438.
The preparation for publication of the medical
and surgical history of the war has been prose
cuted with energy, much of the manuscript aud
several of the Illustrations for the first volume
being completed. The army medical museum
continues to increase in value and usefulness,
and the greater security and additional accom
modations of the building to which It will be
shortly removed, admit of the addition of a
great number of interesting and Instructive
specimens not hitherto available for want of
space. A small appropriation will be reqaired
to continue tho work of classification and pre
servation of this national collection. The
number of casualties from tho commence
ment of the war to the present time, in the
regular and volunteer medical statr, is ascer
tained to be 330, Inchidlng 29 killed in battle, 12
by accident, 10 died of wounds, 4 died iultebel
prisons, 7 died of yellow fever, 8 died ot cholera,
270 died of other diseases. During the war 3j
medical officers were wouuded in battle.
The distribution of troops in small bodies
over so large an extent of country necessitates
the employment of acting assistant surgeous
temporarily, but the number or these has beeu
reduced from 1997 on July 1. 1805, to 204 on July
1, 1806, and will be still further diminished
when existing vacancies in the grade of assist
ant surgeous, created by the act of Congress of
J uly 28, 1800. are filled; a corresponding decrease
in the number of hospital stewards for general
service has also been effected, and In every
branch of the department reduction and re
trenchment nave been rigidly enforced. An
aggregate expenditure of 8207,391-92 wasiucurred
by the medical department lu furnishing offi
cers and supplies to the bureau of refugees,
freed men and abandoned lands, which had un
der its control during the fiscal your ending July
1, 1800,noapproprlation applicable to the purpose;
aud though, under a decision of the Treasury
Department, reimbursement was not made
lrom subsequent appropriations tor tne trued--men's
Bureau, no embarrassment arose aud no
legislation is required. The funds at tho dis
posal ot the medical aud hospital department
during the year eudlug June 30, 1800, were us
follows: - . , ,
Balunce of appropriations remaining Id the -
Treasury July 1, 18C5 $1,11I,181-21
An.oom uf Trvwurv draft 1541, oil war
warrubl 3-Iuo, issued Mity n, itwo, t rvor
ot Assistant Mil rg ton j. li. iiriuluu, lost in -
the mail and subsequently reluiided. ; .10,000-00
Proctitis 01 sales ol old or auiplus uiuUiout
and liouplial properly 4,044,20150
Amouut relunuta on uccouut ot supplies
f urnished tor the use ol prlionura of war... 2.1,103 u4
Amount refunded by Hie Hutilxtenei lie
pHHuieiil, beintc apportionment ol amount
pulti lor board and curs of sick soldiers in
private hospitals 121,tiO'51
Amount received lor board ot oilicers in
hospitals H,2:)y!M
Amount recovered on account ot stores and
furniture lost or Utunaged lu transporta
tion 4,3071.!
Iteluuiied from appropriation lorcareoldus-
lltulo discharged soldiers, being lor board
ot discharged soldiers wliile huvins artifi
cial limbs lilted G,U'5"2I
Hccelveu lrom all other sources l.mij-ul
Total .'. t5,3l,00i'24
Of this amount there was disbursed during
the same period
For medical aud hospital supplies (a great
part ol this sum xpeiKleil lu payment or
utibl of previous yeur) I73.7"1,81
For pay ol private physicians U20,510j
For pay ot nurses und oilier nospitul em
ployees.'. 300,910'06
For purchase ot artificial hmos fur tltiuOleU
soldiers 198,999-00
For board of sick soldiers lu private hos
pitals - M,761-7o
For expenses ol hospitals lor otlicers 2J,1jS ol
l or expenses of purveylug depots, labora
tories, repairs, &c 312,243-18
For miscellaneous expenses of tha medical
department 82.3 1539
Total disbursements during the fiscal
year f2,837.801-77
Balance id Treasuiy June au, IwhI 'A64,47-14
ltuiuuded of amount advanced by disburs
ing officers during the previous yenr 1.805-33
XS,3S.0iM-24
The estimated appropriation required for tne
Medical Department for the next fiscal year is
$90,000. i
The Pay Department remains without ma
terial change. In consequence of additional
labors imposed upon this branch of the War
Department by recent Congressional enactment,
aud in order to promptly pay the large issue of
Treasury certificates, it was necessary 10 retaiu
temporarily a number of additional paymas
ters. The financial summary exhibits:
A balance on baud at the begluulug ol the
fiscal year (120,106,999-32
Beceived from Treasury aud other source
during the year... 163,426,228 97
Total e2sa,&i3,228 2a
Accounted lor as follows:
Disbursement to army and
miliary Academy (10,4.11,004-42
I)lsbuiseuienla to volunleers...24K,U43,J13'uti
Unissued retiutsllllous in Trea-
Bury.-.. lOJfiO.OOO-oo
In bauds ol paymasters J une'JU u,4U3.yio-ol
?83,S3.,),228-29
The total disbursements of each class during
the fiscal year is as follows:
To troops on muster out ST. 1205.272,324-00
To troops in service 3ti,ro,iiiU'00
To rrlerrcd claims 7,6U2,7ili uo
To payment or Treasury cerlhicales 16,lbU,247'vu
259,374,81"e
The estimated appropriations of the pay de
partment amount to &l7,728,5G0-00 for the pay of
the army for the next fiscal year.
The Corps of Engineers, at the close of the
fiscal year consisted of ninety-five officers, tiie
battalion of engineer troops, and the Military
Academy. Thirteen officers were orj detached
duly, serving in command of military depart
ments, on special service connected with the
levees of the Mississippi river, on the Light
house Board, with the Department of the Interior
upon duties relating to the l'aciilc Railroad, on
military surveys and staff's of the geueral-ln-chief
and commanding general of the military
division of the Gulf; the remainder were dili
gently engaged in the duties of their profession,
olllcersof desirable experlouceand practice hav
ing direct supervision of tho more Important
works. The engineer troops were distributed
between the Military Academy and the two
depots of engineer supplies located at Willett'B
Point. New York, and at Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri, ... , .
The condition of the battalion with regard to
discipline aud instruction is reported as satis
factory. At the two engineer depots, much
valuable war material has been collected lrom
Doinu where it had remained after the close or
active operations In the field, and it is proposed,
to keen on hand a complete outfit on a mode-.
rSteafe of such engineer, bridge and siege
equlige as wodbe mostllUly to come into
mUlfion tosupplyunforeseendemandsln the
field. The chief of engineer nesta a modi
liealion oriheactof June 28, It. In respect to
the wanner uf procuring labor and material for
Improvements of harbors and rivers. The esti
mated appropriation required by the engineer
bureau lor the next fiscal year Is 15,140,000.
The ordnance .department -now limits the
operations at arsenals to the construction of
wrought-iron sea-coast carriages, and suoh ord
nance supplies as areneeded for immediate nsej
preservation of the ordnance stores left on hand
at the close of the war : breaking up unservice
able ammunition, and completing unfinished
buildings, f'ire-proof workshops have bean
completed WlrvlJet, j'rakford. and, Alle
ghany arsenals; three magazines, with ft ca
pacity for storing 15,000 barrels of gunpowdor.
have been built at St. Donls arseaal, and one of
the same capacity at each of the arsenals at
Washington City and itenlcla. A board of offi
cers Is engaged In examining suitable sites lor
depositories of gunpowdor, provided for by an
appropriation of the last section of Congress;
and the erection of such magazines as will fur
nish secure and suitable storage for all our pow
der, ammunition, and nitre will be commenced
early next spring. The arsenals at the South
which were seised by the rebels, having been
retaken, are reoccupled, excepting the North
Carolina arsenal, which was destroyed, the
Harper's Ferry armory, the work-hope of which
were burned, and which has been used as an
ordnance depot, the arsenal In Florida, which
has been transferred temporarily to the freed
mcn's bnreau, and the arsenal in Arkansas,
which is occupied by troops of the line.
The Chief of Ordnance is of opinion that It Is
not advisable to rebuild the North Carolina
arsenal, or to re-establish the armory at Har
per's Ferry, and the sale of both Is recom
mended. All the small arms and some of the
other supplies which were collected at Baton
Kouge, San Antonio, Augusta, Charleston, and
Mount Vernon arsenals have been removed,
and the only supplies which have been sent to
them were such as were required for Immediate
issue to troops. The commission appointed
under the act of April 10, 1864, to examine aud
report the value of property on Kock Island
taken by the United States, by authority of
that act, has entered upon its duties. As soon
as good titles to the property shall have been
acquired, the construction of the armory and
arsenal, as required by law, will be hastened as
fast as the acnrourlatlotis will admit. It Is Im
portant that this establishment should be built
upas rapidly as possible, and a considerable
sum has been estimated for that purpose during
the next fiscal year. It is believed that all of
li is necessary ana can do judiciously ana ad
vantageously expended. The operations at the
national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts,
during the past year have been confined to clean
ing ana repairing, arms usea auring tne war,
auu to making ine requisite preparations for
converting the Springfield muskets iuto breech
loaders. lhe power and endurance of the 8-lncli and
12-inch cast Iron rifle cannon have been sub
jected to practical tests, and the experiments
will be continued. The ordnance returns for
three consecutive yours, including a period of
active service anu oruinary repairs, snow an
average duration of five years lor cavalry car
bines, of four years for cavalry pistols, sabres
ana accoutrements, oi seven years ior lniuntry
muskets, and of six years for infantry accoutre
ments. From January 1, 1861, to June 30, 1866,
the ordnance department provided 7892 cannon;
11.787 artillery carriages: 4.022.130 small arms:
2,362,546 complete sets of accoutrements for
luinntry ana cavniry compie sets cavalry
horse equipments; 28,164 sets of horse artillery
harness: 1.022,170,474 cartridges ror small arms:
1,220,555,435 percussion cars; 2,802,177 rounds of
nxeaammunition; h,wi,wxs cannon primers ana
ruses; 1,875,94 pounds or artillery projectiles;
20,440,054 pounds of gunpowder; 6,395.12 pounds
of nitre, and 90.416,295 pounds of lead. In addi
tion to these, there were Immense quantities of
parts provided ror repairing and making good
articles damaged, lost, or destroyed in the
service.
Tbe fiscal resources of the Ordnance Bureau
for the year amounted to :!5,:i01,002-Vl, and the
.i i i . . oil! r-i ,77r.u u.. ii i .... i ... i ... . ..
Jl 8,749,3t-5-18, of which 8 1 8,0 13,80 1 28 were un
drawn balances In the Treasury, and $705,580-9
were to the credit of disbursing officers lu the
Government depositories on Juno 30, 1866. Tne
estimated -appropriation required by the
Ordnance office., including only such objects as
require early attention, is $1. 503.242.
lu the office of the Commissary-General of
rrisnuersa reduced force nas been encased in
receiving nnd completing the records relating
to prisoners of war. in furnishing information
required by the various bureaus aud lu the
investigation of claims for commutation of
rations to I'nttcu states soldiers wtinu ncia as
urlsoaers of war.
The clerical force at the office of tho Signal
Corps is employed In arrnngiug and putting In
tltil abln form luewwgciiiiul rouurUwhtvli unxnocl
through or emanated from the corps during the
war. The expenditures for the signal service
during tbe yeur ending September 30, 1800, were
Muu; tne total amount appropriated and still
available for signal service, September 30, 1800,
was ?252,505-97. No appropriation was requested
of lust congress, and none will be required for
me next nscai year.
At tbe lust examination of the corns of cadets
at the Military Academy, numbered two hun
dred and twenty-eight members, aud forty
cadets of the graduating class completed the
course of studies and were commissioned lieu
tenants in the army. Under the provisions of
the aets of Congress, approved, respectively,
July 13 and 28, 1800, the Military Acadomy was
separated lrom the Corps of Knglneers, which,
together with certain professors ami cadets, bud
heretofore constituted the institution, and the
officers of which had exercised exclusive super
vision and control over it. Brevet Major-Uune-ral
Edmund Schriver, luspector-Oeoral, has
been assigned as Inspector, and Colonel T. (i.
Pitcher, of the Forty-forth Infantry, appointed
Superintendent.
The report of the Board of Visitors for 1S07
bears ample testimony to the usefulness and
excellent condition of the academy, and recom
ii. ends the Increase of the number of cadets to
400. With the present number of cadets but one
graduate can be supplied to eaoh regiment every
second year, after the ordinary demands of the
staff corps are met. During the past session of
Congress important measures were adopted re
specting the academy, raising the standard of
qualifications for admission, aud requiring tbat
appointments be herealter made one year in
advance of the date of admission. Pbe inspec
tor, from personal observation, reports the au
thorities ol the institution as most assiduous in
their efforts to advance tbe Interests of the aca
demy and lis cadets. Its administration is
characterized try economy, and habits of fru
gality are Inculcated. Kxcellcnt discipline is
maintained and Judiciously enforced. Tne es
timated appropriation ior the .Military Aca
demy is t243,807.
In the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Dauds, the Commissioner reports
that there is no material change of organization,
but business Is facilitated and vexed questions
settled by the law of 1806. The Jurisdiction of
assistant commissioners coincides generally
with department and district commands, but is
distinct in Maryland and the District of Colum
bia. Under the new law Maryland and Ken
tucky are embraced, and these States seem to
require aid from the Bureau in promoting
the interests of Justice and education. In the
Northern cities employment offices, of little
expense to the Government, and not a source
oi revenue, nave oeen esiauusueti, witn a view
to obtain work and homes for dependent freed
E
eonle. and to relieve crowded localities. The
muortam-eof self-support has been urged, bv
firopermtans, upou tno laboring classes. Wages
lave been determined, not by orders of Bureau
officers, but by circumstances ordinarily affect
lug the price of labor lu diff erent localities. The
education of freedmen aud refugees has beeu
carried on vigorously, uuder tho immediate
patronage of benevolent societies.
A Superintendent of Education, dovotlug his
whole time to his work, is stationed at the
bureau bead-quarters In each State, and all
bureau officers co-operate with him. It is es
timated that 150,000 freedmen aud their children
are now attending school in the Southern
States. Schools for refugee white children are
also established. Their formation is every
where encouraged by tho bureau. There has
been but little uniformity of action in diffe
rent States In respect to the administration or
Justice. Assistaut commissioners have been
lustiucted to transfer military Jurisdiction as
rapidly as possible to State Judicial tribunals.
Tliis has been done completely in some Status,
while in Virginia, Louisiana and Texas bureau
courts are still In existence.
A claim division, instituted in March last,
and aided by officers and agents throughout the
States, has sought to prevent frauds upon co
lored soldiers lu their efforts to collect unpaid
claims. 195 claims wore paid through the office
of the commissioner; i723 rejected at his office;
1532 are in process of adjustment. The aggre-
fata amouut collected aud paid is 110.53909.
Jetalled reports are given of the operatlous of
the bureau in each Slate aud the District of
Columbia. - Transportation is reported as fur
nished to 6352 destitute freed people and 387
ref ugees. 13,412,273 rations were Issued batween
June 1, 1865, and September 1, 1806. The average
number per month, to refugees and freedmen,
was 894,509; the average number per day, 20,819.
The issue to whites Increased until June 30,
I860, vheu Issues to freedmeu and refugees were
about equal. From Juue 30, 1800, until Septem
1. the number supported of both classes has
diminished. Itlgld scrutiny has been exercised
to prevent issues to any but the absolutely des
titute, and parts of the ration not actually
needed were cut off. Officers were directed to
hold each plantation, couuty, parish, and town
responsible lor the care of its own poor, but to
very little purpose, for, with few exceptions,
the State authorities have failed to contribute
to the relief of the class of persons supported by
LL Wovwrnment. Owing to the Jul' are of croi
the rrqulrenlw.ts of circular 10, of August XI4
conld not be rigidly enforced.
Upon the application of Stale officials, special
issues are being made to certain Stales lor the
support of their pauper population. Itatloiia
are sold to teachers and agents of benevolent
societies, nnder the same rules that apply to
sucn purchases made by commissioned ofiioers.
Bureau hospitals receive the usual freedmen'
ration. The amount of land now in possession
of the Bureau Is 272,231 acres, to be increased by
228 tracts in Tennessee, of which the number of
cres nas not been reported. The aggiegaKi
number of parcels of town property, not In
cluded In the above, which have been In pos
session of the Bureau, la 8724, of which 2605 hav
been restored, leaving a balance of 1119 parcel
of town property, r
" oaisuce on nana ot the treedmen fund
Tll huTni,.a rii-i.i .i-TV."' I" ,i"",t Ii,.MT
ln balance of appropriation
I..... M1.0.W, " I
...... (,86,26-M
Thetwtlmated Smonnt dnA i,k.
7.1M,81-4a
slHlenc department In f?97 00000
The transportation reported un- '
f'ftldV 26,0U)-fl4
Tlie trampoilulloa eetiiualed
n,i am - - - .
2U,UUU-VU
.Estimated amount due medlca4
.department - - .- lOO.OOiVOO
Estimated amount due quarter-
iciuinaici uepttrimeUl 290.0001)0
643,0WtM.
Total balance for all purposes of expend!-' "
J.1,re;""""".""; :: ,stii.s5-M
Tina IVitnin MinnAr llmol .1...
funds necessary for the next fiscal year as Iol
Salaries ol assistant commissioners, sub-as-
niBiMiiis miu nKeuip...aMM...aMM M. 1147 IMVS-
DRisnenoi cierks a-4.nofl
i-iniiuiirij a l l.i I'liuhllig
GnurlAK a nri fnal
- ano'ote ,
L ikuri .
Htilxistence stores ,
Aiecncai department
'I'ru tin nt irt uili.n
l,0l,tNI
6nu,om
sou.iKie
26.0M
School superintendent's...
jjiiuuinKs ior sciioois anil asylum (Inclutllug ;
Telegraphing aud postugo ls.ooo
Total .Tr....M.sa,iiuj ,
In compliance with roodiit enactments of .
Congress, commissioners to assess the value of
K ! n V , inll(.tnfl Inln Iia ITnlia.i U .. i .
- - . - ...... . u,w uiii.cii obtiitrn m Illy
during the war have been appointed for Mis-- '
Knt,fl llarvlnml I.' ....... 1... .. . . . 1 ' I' . .
r.'u.., ....,,.,.,.,, jvui,Li,.ivjr auu ai-ii neNsee, Due t
their reports have not yet been received.
Incouclusion.lt alves me pleasure to again '
express my obligations to the chiefs of bureaus- i'
and their subordinates, who, in reduoing the
WarDerartmeut toapeacocslablistimenl.have
evinced the same diiUcence. ability and fidelity
to the interests of the Government that dlstln-- '
guished them during tho labors, anxiety aud
vicissitudes of I ho war, nnd contributed si
much to its successful termination. ft 4 Jm '
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War.
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Cheenat Bliest,
On Tuesday Vorotnir, -
4th roslsnt, at 11 o'clock, very mlub' private eot
lecuou ot enitrsvlnuR, drawings, pictures, curomes.
etc., careinlly selected by Jsraes II. Simpson, j..gq
durm msnj years. Including specimens ot the old and
mot' em schools, vis .1 'I urner, Ciaude, the iintlseera.
Huntingdon, Mtsnlle si d nexrly all tbe members ef
the Koval Aeat)eoy of London, Qieeuiborouvli, etc
etc Open lor examination on Monday aiiemoou. 112 1 It
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On Wednesday and Thurs- ay Mornings, ,
5th tntiOto InMants, at II o'clock, an eiegani assort
ment ot Dent quality patent electro end pa-el ware,
ivory table and pocket cutlery, direct lrom tbe ett
.tobiuent ot Jowph Dentin Sons, Sheffield England
con.lsune of so.u-llned tea lets ; csrd reoulver. w tfV
vxwa; kettles ana stands, with and itho.it i.n. .
frult-stsnds. tee p.tcb.r. Wine eeti 4. 6 aa.oo?uls '
cut glass dinner aid bretk'ast c,tor., t ru" nltia"
U. pot snds cle.et Jugs, dish covers, V 4rSnes ciki
ba-tets, round and ovat tr.. 10 to lochw, tot
"dm 110$"' m 1Wcker,' kni,e !p"b
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Parl bnndle tab'e knives In cae o-'t and 12i dtnscrt
knlve. to matcht lvory and plated handle W-carvers
lu morocco csaes, etc etc
M ALSO, r r mmm -
Ilnner and dessert spoons and forks ; sotio anil auTe"
ladies; gravj spoom, In p ain, King's and beaded pat-
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. On 1 hurtdsy ant! Krtdsy Evenings next. ' -1
6th nd 7th Instant, sU o'elock.et cotfs Art Gal.
lerv, o 1C20 Cbesnnt stieet. about itl.0 ftasmoderaoR
paintings, by tome of our most talented American .
Cptn lor exsmlnatloB on Tuesday. HI 6
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' On Tuesday Morning, ,
. December 4. at 10 o'clock, at No .124 Glrerd street,
bv catalogue, the entire Fnrnllure Including suit ele
gant carved rosewood drswtna-room lurnlturet band
some walnut climber and dining-room inruituret
t hlckerins 7 octave piano for e; tine French plate
man-el, pier, and oval mirrors in rich vi t iramnst
elegant hrocate le window curtains 1 fine mantel clock
and orramei ttt handnone chandeliers- lorve and ele
gant French China dinner service! roh r cut slasa
ware; bandvome medallion velvet and Euirliaii firna
e's csipetsi bair matlreases etc
lhe entire lurnitnie was made to order by Moor
Campion, and Is In ezce lent order."
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tween 10 and a o'clock. 121 Jt
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On Wednesdav,"s "'
Deeemf cr 8, cetrnie rclng at 10 0'c'ock comprlsTng
large and f enerol ante rm.e tit of seasonable goods ret -pre
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