II. By direction of the Secretary of War, General Orders, No. 98, War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, July 15, 1898, is revoked, in deference to an opinion of the Attorney-General rendered July 18, 1899, construing section 6 of the act "Providing for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the United States in time of war," etc., approved April 22, 1898, as authorizing a State military organization, accepted by the United States in a body as a volunteer organization under said act, to be maintained while in the United States service as a part of the Volunteer Army, as originally accepted in said service. By command of Major-General Miles: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant-General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 162. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, I. The following order has been received from the War Department: "WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 18, 1899. "By direction of the President, Maj. Gen. E. S. Otis, commanding Department of the Pacific and Eighth Army Corps, is authorized to recruit and organize two regiments of infantry volunteers and one regiment of cavalry volunteers, to be designated the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Regiments of Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and the Eleventh Regiment of Cavalry, U. S. Volunteers. I. The following orders have been received from the War Department: "WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, September 9, 1899. "By direction of the President, two additional regiments of volunteers will be organized under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1899, the enlisted men to be colored, with rendezvous at the following-named points: 66 Forty-eighth, Col. William P. Duvall (captain, First Artillery), at Fort Thomas, Ky.; "Forty-ninth, Col. William H. Beck (captain, Tenth Cavalry), at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. "Each regiment so organized will, for the purpose of discipline and supply, be subject to the orders of the commanding general of the department in which the rendezvous is located, except that the ordnance and quartermaster's supplies will be provided under the direction of the Chief of Ordnance and Quartermaster-General, and the regimental commander will report by telegraph to the adjutant-general of the department on his arrival at the regimental rendezvous. "ELIHU ROOT, Secretary of War." II. The regulations governing the recruiting and organization of these regiments will be the same as those published in General Orders, No. 122, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant-General's Office, July 5, 1899, and General Orders, No. 150, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant-General's Office, August 17, 1899. By command of Major-General Miles: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant-General. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 173. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, September 30, 1899. I. By direction of the Secretary of War, hereafter all volunteer officers not paid on the muster-out rolls of their regiments, and all volunteer staff officers, will send their final accounts to the Paymaster-General of the Army for settlement, and they will only be paid by the officer designated by him for that purpose. # By command of Major-General Miles: H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant-General. ILLUSTRATIONS. Sternberg hospital, Camp Geo. H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Ga. Water buffalo, Phillipine Islands. ALASKA. White Pass and Yukon express, Alaska, near the summit. Pack train, American dogs, Lake Bennett, Alaska. Party of scouts en route to Jack Wade Creek, Alaska. Officers' quarters, post of Fort Egbert, Alaska, near Eagle City. Barracks at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Storehouses at Fort Egbert, Alaska, corrugated iron buildings. Steamer Cudahy, Eagle City, Alaska, fastest boat on Yukon River. View of Eagle City, Alaska. View of White Horse Rapids, Alaska. View of the cataract of Miles Canyon, Alaska. View of the crater in Miles Canyon, Alaska. View of St. Michael, Alaska. View of Unalaska looking out into Bering Sea, June, 1898. 78 |