Chief has two aides-de camp, who assist him in his correspondence, and in the recording of it, and who also perform the duties of assistant adjutant's general. There are no clerks attached to the head quarters of the army; the correspondence and duties being of a delicate and confidential nature, in a great degree, it is entrusted only to those who, by previous education and experience, can properly appreciate and understand its object. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. Colonel R. Jones, Adjutant General. Lieutenant Lorenzo Thomas, 4th Infantry. James L. Addison, clerk $1 1000 00 800 00 This office is the repository of the records which refer to the personnel of the army, in war, as well as in time of peace, and of the military history of every officer and soldier, from the earliest period of the government, so far as these may have been preserved. It is here where all military appointments and commissions are made out and registered, where the names of all enlisted soldiers are entered, and their size, roll, and enlistments, recorded and filed, &c. It is in this office where the monthly returns of the troops, and muster rolls of companies, required by the 13th and 19th articles of war, are received and preserved; where the original proceedings of general courts martial are deposited and entered, where the inventory of the effects of deceased officers and soldiers are forwarded and recorded. [90th and 94th articles of war.] The Adjutant General of the army is charged with the registery of all commissioned officers, and with the distribution of their commissions ; with the record of all appointments in the army; promotions, resignations, deaths, c. All orders which emanate from general head quarters of the army, and all regulations and general orders from the War Office, are communicated to the troops by the Adjutant General. In this office the annual returns of the militia of the several States and Territories are deposited for safe keeping, as well as arms, munitions, and accoutrements, pertaining to the same, required by law to be made to the President of the United States The general returns of the militia of the United States, required for the use of Congress, pursuant to the act of March 2, 1803, are consolidated in this office. Here all appointinents and commissions of the officers of the militia of the District of Columbia, are registered and distributed. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles Gratiot, Corps of Engineers, Chief Engineer. Lieutenant R. E. Lee, of the Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant G. W. Cullum, of the Corps of Engineers, Benjamin Fowler, clerk..... J. C. Wilson, clerk...... Willis Fawcett, clerk. .............. } Assistants. $1150 00 800 00 The Chief of the Corps of Engineers is stationed at the seat of goveru ment, and directs and regulates the duties of the corps of engineers, and those also of such of the topographical engineers as may be attached to the Engineer Department; and also is the Inspector of the Military Academy, and is charged with its correspondence. The duties of the Engineer Department comprise—reconnoitering and surveying for military purposes and for internal improvements, the selertion of sites, the formation of plans and estimates, the construction, repair, and inspection of fortifications, and the disbursements of the sums appropriated for the fulfilment of those objects severally, comprising those of the Military Academy. Also, the superintendence of the execution of the acts of Congress in relation to internal improvements by roads, canals, the navigati n of rivers, and the repairs and improvements connected with the harbors of the United States, or the entrance into the same, which may be authorized by acts of Congress, with the execution of which the War Department may be charged. The function of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they do not assume, nor are they sub ject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate pro fession, except by special authority, through the War Department-and when so arranged to other duties, either on detachment or otherwise, they have precedeuce according to their commissions, which, at all times, entitle them to every mark of military respect. TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU. Brevet Lt. Col. John J. Abert, Topographical Engineers, Superintendent. .......... ..$800 00 This bureau has charge of all topographical operations and surveys for military purposes, and for purposes of internal improvements, and of all maps, drawing, and documents, in relation to those duties. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT. George Bomford, Colonel of Ordnance. William H. Bell, Captain of Ordnance. William Riddall, clerk.. ............................ A. G. Glynn, clerk.... George Welsh, clerk............................ ................... ..... ................ $1150 00 .1000 00 800 00 John Robb, superintendent, Springfield, $100 per. month, and 4 rations James R. Butler, storekeeper, Pittsburg....... Dauiel S. Gaillard, storekeeper, Watervleit, N. Y.... Pay, &c. of captain of infantry. Marcus C Buck, storekeeper, Washington City.. ........... Pay, &c. of cap tain of infantry. The Ordnance Department which had been abolished and merged in the Artillery, by the act of 2d March, 1821, was re-organized under the act of 5th April, 1832, entitled, "an act to provide for the organization of the Orduance Department Under this law it consists of one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, two majors, and ten captains, and as many enlisted men as the public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. It is the duty of the Colonel of the Ordnance Department to direct the inspection and proving of all pieces of ordnance, cannon balls, shot, shells small arms, side arms and equipments, procured for the use of the army of the United States; and to direct the construction of all cannon and carriages, and every unplement and apparatus for ordnance, and all ammunition wagons, travelling forges, and artificers' wagons; the inspection and proving of powder, and the preparation of all kinds of ammunition and orduance stores. It is also his duty to furnish estimates, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to make contracts and purchases for procuring the necessary supplies of arms, equipments, ordnauce and ordnance stores The general denomination of ordnance and ordnance stores comprebends all cannon, howitzers, mortars, cannon balls, and shells, for the land service, all gun carriages, caissons, travelling forges and pontoons, with all their equipments, and all other apparatus and machines required for the service and manœuvres of artillery in garrison, sieges, or in the field, together with the materials for their construction and repair. Also, all small arms, side arms and accoutrements for the artillery, cavalry, infantry and riflemen; all ammunition for cannon and small arms; and all stores of expenditures for the service of the artillery; materials, utensils and stores for laboratories; all intrenching and miner's tools, for the attack or defence of places; armorer's tools for the repair of arms; and artificers' tools of every description, required for the construction or repair of gun carriages and artillery equipments. The ordinary articles of camp equipage, such as axes, spades, shovels, mattocks, &c., are not included. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. General Thomas S. Jesup, Quartermaster General. Major Thomas F. Hunt, 5th infantry, Assistant Quartermaster. $1150 00 The Quartermaster General is stationed at the City of Washington, and, under the direction of the Secretary of War, is charged with the military and administrative details of his department. He has a complete administrative control of all the officers belonging to his department, as well as of those appointed to act therein, or make disbursements on account thereof. Officers of regiments and corps, are also subject to a like control, by the Quartermaster General, in regard to every thing re lating to barracks and quarters, and to the accountabilities for supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, as well as for those of the Purchasing Department. The objects of this department are, to insure an efficient system of supply, and to give facility and effect to the movements and operations of the army. It is the duty of the department to provide quarters and transportation for the army, and transportation for all military stores, provisions, camp and garrison equipage, and artillery; to direct the survey, and superintend the opening and repairing of roads, and the constructing and repairing of bridges, which may be necessary to the movements of any part of the army, or as communications between the posts on the frontiers, and between those posts and the interior. To provide good and sufficient store houses for all military supplies, and for all provisions deposited by the Commissary's Department, or under contract between individuals and the government. To purchase all fuel, forage, straw, and stationary, required for the army; and have them transported to the posts or places where they may be wanted, and issued to those entitled to them, according to the regulations. To purchase all horses, oxen, mules, and harness; and all wagons, carts, and boats, and other vessels, with their proper equipments, for the transportation of the army, and for garrison purposes; to have the custody of the same, and be responsible that they be not used for private purposes, but be employed or used exclusively in the public service. To purchase dragoon and artillery horses; also, when specially directed by the Secretary of War, to purchase the saddles, bridles, and other necessary equipments required for the service; and cause them to be delivered to the officers of those corps who shall be authorized to receive them. To provide materials, and direct and superintend the constructing and [repairing of quarters, barracks, hospitals, store houses, stables, and other necessary and authorized buildings for the accommodation of the army, and the security of public property. To provide materials for the constructing of block houses, and other necessary defences at the posts occupied by the troops on the interior frontiers, and in the Indian country. To select, under the orders of the generals or other commanding officers, sites for encampment, and to assign to the different corps the ground they are to occupy. To have the general direction of all foraging and working parties, when the army or detachments of it are in the field; and to have the direction of all artificers employed at posts, except those of the Ordnance Department, and of all soldiers drawn from their companies and employed upon constant labor more than ten days. To direct the movement and be responsible for the prompt and safe transmission of all supplies required for the service of any part of the army in the field; and either send them direct to the army, or place them in such convenient depôts, as the General-in-chief, the Quartermaster General, or the General commanding the troops in the field, may direct. To receive in bulk, from the Purchasing, Medical, Subsistence, and Ordnance departments, all medicines and hospital stores, provisions, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, arms, ammunition, and ordnance, and transport them to the places of destination, and distribute them according to the direction respectively given to them, and, when necessary, to employ conductors to accompany them. ; It shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General to make himself acquainted with the frontiers, both maratime and interior; and with all the principal avenues leading to the contiguous Indian and foreign territories; with the military resources of the country, and the means and facilities of transportation, particularly of the districts on the frontiers with the most elevated points for concentrating troops and collecting supplies, whether in relation to offensive or defensive operations; with the relative expense of concentrating at particular positions, and the advantages of those positions; and he shall be prepared at all times, to give detailed information on those subjects, when required to do so, either by the Secretary of War, or the General-in-chief. He shall, under the orders, or with the approbation, of the Secretary of War, or the General-in-chief, designate the routes of communication between different posts and armies; the course of military roads, and the sites for permanent and temporary depôts of provisions and military stores. He shall assign the officers of his department to such stations as he may think proper, having reference to their peculiar qualifications; and the officers so assigned shall not be removed from their stations, nor be subject to detail, nor be employed upon any other duties than those which properly appertain to their departments, but with his assent, or by the order of the Secretary of War, or the General-in-chief-except that the generals commanding departments may require them to sit as members of general courts martial, at or in the vicinity of their respective stations; or should circumstances render it necessary for the troops at any post, or on any frontier, suddenly to take the field, the general or other officer commanding the department, or on the frontier, shall have the authority to require any quartermaster or assistant within his command, to accompany them. He shall visit the stations of the several officers of his department for the purposes of inspection and supervision; or he may, from time to time, assign that duty to such officers of the department as he may select; and generals and others in command of departments, corps, and posts, will afford every necessary facility to enable them to make the inspections directed. He shall decide upon all claims arising under the regulations of his department, subject to the revision of the Secretary of War, or the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, as the case may require. He shall prepare all estimates of the funds and supplies required for the service of his department; and he shall prepare and submit, for the sanction of the Secretary of War, plans for barracks, quarters, and other improvements, and cause the plans, when approved, to be carried into effect, as far as the means provided by Congress shall enable him. He will report from time to time, to the Secretary of War, and at least once a quarter, the proceedings of his department; and he shall at all times be prepared to give information to him, or the General in-chief, on all matters confided to his administration, when required to do so by either. |