WINFIELD SCOTT, Major General, General-in-Chief— Head Quarters, Washington City. INSPECTORS GENERAL OF THE ARMY. Fourth Infantry. Col. J. H. Vose, *Col. G. M. Brooke, Sixth Infantry. *Col. Z. Taylor, Seventh Infantry. *Col. M. Arbuckle, Lieut. Col. W. Whistler, Eighth Infantry. *Col. W. J. Worth, Lieut. Colonel by brevet. 2. MILITIA FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES. Abstract of the United States Militia, from the Army Register for 1844. Plattsburg Barracks, Fort Wolcott, Fort Trumbull, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York Sacket's Harbor, Newport, New London, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Fort Independence, Massachusetts, Boston, Col. J. H. Vose, Lt. Col. Wilson, 1st infantry. Maj. J.Plympton, 2d infantry. 2d infantry. Capt. G A. Waite, 2d infantry. 1st artillery. Capt. Merchant, 2d artillery. Lt. Col. Payne, 4th artillery. Fort Washingt'n, Not garrisoned. Carlisle Barracks, do. Carlisle, Hancock Barracks, Maine, Houlton, Fort Sullivan, do. Eastport, Fort Preble, do. Portland, Fort Constitution, N. Hampshire, Portsmouth, Fort McHenry, Fort Severn, do. Annapolis, Fort Washington, do. Fort Monroe, Fort Johnston, N. Carolina, Fort Caswell, do. Fort Macon, do. Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, Virginia, 4. RANK, GRADE, AND PAY OF THE ARMY. Rank and classification of Officers. Major General, $200 15 Aid-de-Camp, in addition to pay &c., of Lieut., 24 90 104 12 90 Inspector General-Colonel, Quartermaster General-Brig. General, Assistant Quartermaster General-Colonel, Deputy Quartermaster General-Lt. Colonel, 75 Quartermaster-Major, Assistant Quartermaster-Captain, Commissary Gen. of Subsistence-Colonel, Assist. Com. Gen. of Subsistence-Lt. Col., Paymaster, Surgeon General, $2,500 per annum. Surgeons of less than ten years' service, Assistant Surgeons of ten years' service, Assist. Surg'ns, of less than five years service, 33 33 Officers of the Corps of Engineers-Corps of Top. Engineers,-Ordnance Department. 90 75 2211T 2221HT 2221TT 4 Adjutant, in addition to pay, &c., of Lieut., 10 5. MILITARY GEOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENTS. The order districting the United States into nine military departments is rescinded, and the country is hereby divided into two military geographical divisions, the boundaries of which will be the same as those established at the reduction of the army in 1821, with the exception of the present 4th and 9th military departments, which will not be included in either division. Western Division. The country west of a line drawn from Fond du Lac, Lake Superior, to Cape Sable, Florida, and embracing the part of Wisconsin Territory west of said line, Iowa Territory, the States of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, West Florida, and the Indian country West of the Mississippi river Eastern Division. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. 4th Military Department. The States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, and that part of Wisconsin Territory not included in the Western Division. 9th Military Department.-East and Middle Florida. Until otherwise directed, the present arrangement of Military Departments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, [See Almanac for 1844, page 129,] will be continued, and the senior officer in each will report to and receive instructions from the commanders of divisions. Brevet Major General Gaines is assigned to the command of the Western, and Brigadier General Wool to the command of the Eastern division, and will, for the present, establish their head quarters, respectively, at New Orleans, La., and Troy, N. Y. The head quarters of departments will remain as now established, except the head quarters of the 5th department, which will be at Fort Columbus, N. Y. The regular force, as now authorized by law, consists of 716 commissioned officers, 17 storekeepers, 40 sergeants, 250 enlisted men for the ordnance service, and 7,590 non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates; making an aggregate of 6,613 men. West Point Academy. A statement transmitted to Congress shows, that the number of cadets admitted into the institution since its establishment, is Of which have graduated, Resigned before graduation, Resigned, 1,206 Disbanded, or dismissed, 6 Died in service, 323 Now in service, 2,942 33 11 147 542 Of those now in service, there are 4 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 13 majors, 173 captains, 170 first lieutenants, 131 second lieutenants, 70 brevet second lieutenants, 5 paymasters, and 1 military storekeeper. The amount appropriated for the institution, since its establishment, for buildings, library, apparatus, &c., is, For salaries, pay, subsistence, &c, $711,399 88 3,291,501 27 $4,002,901 15 |