Second Brigade-Brigadier General L. W. Colby, Anniston, Alabama. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, the following assignment of staff officers to the 1st, 2d, and 4th Army Corps are announced: FIRST CORPS. Assistant Adjutant General, Lieutenant Colonel George R. Cecil; Inspector General, Lieutenant Colonel Frank D. Baldwin; Chief Quartermaster, Lieutenant Colonel James M. Marshall; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Lieutenant Colonel John J. Clague; Judge Advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Lucien F. Burpee; Chief Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Kress; Chief Signal Officer, Lieutenant Colonel George O. Squier; Chief Engineer Officer, Lieutenant Colonel John Biddle; Chief Surgeon, Major John M. G. Woodbury; Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Augustus P. Gardner. First Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Louis V. Caziarc; Inspector General, Major John G. Ballance; Chief Quartermaster, Major David Hemphill; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major James O. Varnedoe; Engineer Officer, Major Wm. A. Shunk; Chief Surgeon, Major James H. Hyssell; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major John B. Rodman. Second Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Hugh L. Scott; Chief Quartermaster, Major Thomas Cruse; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major Philip Mothersill; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major William J. Nicholson; Chief Surgeon, Major Jefferson D. Griffith; Engineer Officer, Major James A. Irons. SECOND CORPS. Assistant Adjutant General, Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. McClernand; Inspector General, Lieutenant Colonel Winfield S. Edgerly; Chief Quartermaster, Lieutenant Colonel Guy Howard; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Lieutenant Colonel James N. Allison; Chief Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Wm. P. Duvall; Judge Advocate, Major Stephen W. Groesbeck; Chief Signal Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Ives; Chief Engineer Officer, Lieutenant Colonel George McC. Derby ; Chief Surgeon, Lieutenant Colonel Alfred C. Girard; Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Carl Reichmann. First Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Frederick S. Strong; Inspector General, Major Philip Reade; Chief Quartermaster, Major J. Estcourt Sawyer; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major Walter K. Wright; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major John L. Chamberlain; Chief Surgeon, Major Junius L. Powell; Engineer Officer, Major William D. Jenkins. Second Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Alfred C. Sharpe; Inspector General, Major Robert A. Brown; Chief Quartermaster, Major Eugene F. Ladd; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major James C. Mullikin; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major Benjamin Alvord; Chief Surgeon, Major John L. Phillips; Engineer Officer, Major George H. Sands. Third Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Hunter Liggett; Inspector General, Major Thomas M. Woodruff; Chief Quartermaster, Major Leon S. Roudiez; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major Joseph H. Heat wole; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major Eli D. Hoyle; Chief Surgeon, Major Edwin F. Gardner; Engineer Officer, Major Eugene W. Van C. Lucas. FOURTH CORPS. Assistant Adjutant General, Major William W. McCammon ; Inspector General, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Miley; Chief Quartermaster, Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Penney; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Grierson; Judge Advocate, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hull; Chief Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant Colonel John T. Thomp son; Chief Signal Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Richard P. Strong; Chief Engineer Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Hiram M. Chittenden; Chief Surgeon, Major Henry S. Turrill; Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Harvey C. Carbaugh. First Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Louis A. Craig; Chief Quartermaster, Major Edgar B. Robertson; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major Rufus M. Townsend; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major Clarence P. Townsley; Chief Surgeon, Major W. F. Carter; Engineer Officer, Major Wm. D. Beach. Second Division. Assistant Adjutant General, Major Edward Davis; Inspector General, Major Earl D. Thomas; Chief Quartermaster, Major Otto H. Falk; Chief Commissary of Subsistence, Major Samuel W. Hay; Chief Ordnance Officer, Major Godfrey H. Macdonald; Chief Surgeon, Major Robert J. Gibson; Engineer Officer, Major Charles L. Woodbury. Those officers who are not already on duty with the corps or divisions to which assigned in this order will proceed to join them without delay. The travel enjoined is necessary for the public service. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES: H. C. CORBIN, GENERAL ORDERS, No. 167. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, October 13, 1898. The following order of the Secretary of War is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Leaves of absence granted to officers of the Army serving at stations beyond the limits of the United States, for the purpose of returning to this country, will be regarded as taking effect on the dates they reach the United States, respectively, and as terminating on the respective dates of their departure therefrom in returning to their commands. The dates of arrival in and departure from the United States will, in every case, be reported to the Adjutant General of the Army. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 168. H. C. CORBIN, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, October 15, 1898. By direction of the Secretary of War, disbursing officers of the Subsistence Department are prohibited from paying commutation of rations at twenty-five cents per day on those furloughs (granted previous to orders for muster out) the periods of which cover days embraced in the thirty or sixty day periods of furloughs authorized by General Orders, No. 130, August 29, 1898, and paragraph III, General Orders, No. 148, September 19, 1898, from this office. The commutation of rations due on all such previously granted furloughs will be paid by paymasters upon final discharge or muster out upon presentation of the furloughs by those to whom granted, care being taken not to allow double payments for the days (between the dates of such furloughs and the dates of discharge or muster out) which are covered by both furloughs; but paymasters will make no payments of commutation of rations on account of such previously granted furloughs unless the furloughs themselves are produced. When payment is made, note thereof will be indelibly stamped by the paymaster on the furlough paper and the same filed with the muster-out roll or final statement. Amounts so paid will be refunded by the Subsistence Department on settlement of paymasters' accounts. Furloughs of the above character not presented to paymasters for payment as above provided for, but which may be presented to them or to subsistence officers after muster out of companies to which the men belonged, will be forwarded to the Commissary General of Subsistence for settlement and payment. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL MILES: GENERAL ORDERS, No. 169. H. C. CORBIN, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, October 17, 1898. I. By direction of the Secretary of War, General Orders, No. 124, August 20, 1898, and General Orders, No. 150, September 21, 1898, from this office, are so far amended as to require that officers and enlisted men held in service for physical examination after the organizations to which they belonged have been mustered out of service shall be discharged after such examination has been completed as of the date of their muster out on detachment muster-out rolls, unless otherwise ordered. II. By direction of the Secretary of War, all officers detailed for duty in connection with the muster out of troops in States will be paid commutation of quarters at established rates from the dates on which they assumed such duties in the States to which they have been ordered, and for the time actually absent from their stations performing such duties. III. By direction of the Secretary of War, civilian clerks employed by mustering officers, under the orders of the War Department, will be directed by them to make such journeys in the performance of their duties as may be necessary, and |
