"HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, "General James F. Rusling reported for duty at Nashville, Tenn., in November, 1863, and continued with me until April, 1865. During all this time, and especially during the siege of Nashville and Hood's campaign, he proved himself an active and efficient officer. "GEORGE H. THOMAS, Major General United States Army." "HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, "General Rusling's reputation in the West was always good, and the indorsement of such a person as General George H. Thomas is sufficient for me to add my name. "W. T. SHERMAN, Lieutenant General United States Army." Extracts from reports of General Donaldson, senior and supervising quartermaster, Department of the Cumberland, 1864-5. "I cannot conclude this report without calling your attention to the following-named officers on duty at this depot, to whom I feel largely indebted for the efficiency and success attending my operations: to Captain James F. Rusling, assistant quartermaster volunteers, on duty in my office as Chief Assistant Quartermaster, for faithfulness and energy, and for unwearied attention to the multifarious business necessarily centering here; thus leaving my own mind free for the more general operations of the department."-War Records, Vol. LII, Part 1, supplement, page 623. "Captain James F. Rusling, assistant quartermaster volunteers, was my Chief Assistant Quartermaster from December 1, 1863, to April 29, 1865, when he received his appointment as Inspector Quartermaster Department. During the Atlanta campaign and afterward he was of great assistance to me in the work of supplying the army; and I witnessed his well-earned promotion with pleasure.”—War Records, Vol. LII, Part 1, supplement, page 688. Extracts from report of Secretary of War, etc., 1866-7: "The officers who have been on inspection duty have accomplished a great amount of work during the year, pointing out the places and mode of effecting great economies. Inspections by Brevet Brigadier General James F. Rusling have been particularly extensive, thorough, and useful. His various inspections in the States included in the Military Division of the Tennessee (1865-6) resulted in great reductions of material and personnel, and in great consequent economies. General Rusling is now engaged upon a minute inspection of the Posts on the route to San Francisco, and in those of the Military Division of the Pacific, and his reports give clear and precise information of the operations, necessities, and defects of the service in those remote districts, which is especially valuable.”—Page 62, Senate edition. Again: "General Rusling has faithfully performed his arduous duties. His appointment, as Inspector, was fitly made. In his tour to the Pacific coast, he is giving a full, faithful, and valuable report of his operations, which will be of great value to the Department. He has fairly earned the brevet of Brigadier General United States Volunteers lately conferred upon him by the War Department."-Page 338. "The actual reductions in the expenses of the government, resulting from inspections made by officers of this department, cannot be closely estimated. Brevet Brigadier General James F. Rusling, however, has embodied in his annual report a tabular statement, showing that at the depots and posts inspected by him, from about June 30, 1865, to July 31, 1866, the current expenses prior to his inspections aggregated $1,508,160.42 per month-the number of employees being twenty-one thousand five hundred and sixty-three; that he made recommendations involving a reduction of the expenditures to $512,806, and the employees to nine thousand and nine; that these reductions were for the most part carried out, involving a saving to the department of nearly one million dollars per month."-Page 340. See page 165. In our recent war with Spain our casualties from May 1, 1898, to February 28, 1899, were only as follows: Killed, 329; died of wounds, 125; died of disease, 5,277; total, 5,731. 395 INDEX A A soldier's life is always gay," 167 Abbott, Capt. Joseph, 284 Accounts with U. S., 280, 284 Alabama, 305, 336 Allen, Gen. Robert, a great Quartermaster, Alexandria, 32, 33, 44, 55, 70, 191, 197-199, Ambulances, 166 American Republic indivisible on line of American Revolution, 80 American Senate, 20 Among strangers beware, 314 An army a city on legs, 165; like a snake, Anacostia, 224 Annandale, 32 Anderson, Gen., 151 the White House, Va., 191; on James River, Antæus, 70 Antietam, 18; a drawn battle, 34, 41, 44, 55, Antwerp, Siege of, 153 Appomattox, 18; Lee's surrender there, 132; 153. 157 Appendix, 355 Army, what it is, 165, 166 Army Corps, Organization by, 57 Army nurses, 190, 191 Army record of author, 4 Andersonville, horrors of, 150, 162 Army roads, 214, 216, 217, 221, 249, 250, 255, Army of the Cumberland, 80, 181 Army of the Potomac, 17, 24, 30, 36, 43, 44, Assassination of Lincoln, 17, 347 Asylum at Washington, Hooker there, 63 Atlanta, 84, 142, 144, 154, 170, 183, 186 at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, 82, 83, Brandy Station, 78 Breckinridge, J. C., as Vice President, 20 Bridgeport, 59 Brigade Bakeries, 57 Brigade Quartermaster, 203, 220 Bristoe, 30, 54; Generals Hill and Warren Brooks, Noah, on Lincoln, 359 Baggage-destroying order of McClellan at Buchanan, James, as President, 8, 18, 20 Buckley, Rev. J. M., 355, 356; commenda- tion of author, 355, 359 Budd's Ferry, 206 Buell, Gen. D. C., 223 Buena Vista, 164 Buford, Gen. John, at Gettysburg, 68 Bull Run, 24, 44; Hooker and Kearny at, 54. 74, 150, 228 Burnside, Gen. A. E., 41; ordered to relieve Busy at Nashville, 316, 322, 338 Butler, Gen. B. F., 79 "By the Eternal," 319 "By the Left Flank, Forward!" 144, 153 Cæsar, 120, 145, 163 C Cairo, 17, 176, 177, 180, 181, 353 Cameron, Hon. S., 18 Campaigning and soldiering, 159; WY |