Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 |
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Adjutant-General ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE ambulance appropriation artillery assistant surgeon August Barracks battalion battery brigade camp Capt Captain Cavalry charge Chickamauga chief surgeon Colonel command commissary depot discharge disease division hospitals duty enlisted equipment Fifth Army Fifth Army Corps fiscal force Fort Monroe furnished H. C. CORBIN harbor headquarters Hospital Corps hospital stewards Infantry instructions Island July June 30 Key West Lieut Major-General mean strength Medical Department medical officers ment military mustering officer National Cemetery Navy organization PLAYA Ponce Port Tampa Porto Rico pounds purchased quartermaster Quartermaster's Department quarters received Regiment of Infantry Regular Army River rooms Santiago de Cuba Secretary Secretary of War sent ship Siboney sick soldiers Spanish steamship storehouse Surgeon-General Tampa tents tion Total transportation troops typhoid fever U. S. Volunteers United States Army United States Volunteers vessels wagons Washington wounded yellow fever
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Stran 132 - ... government become payable to the military occupant, unless he sees fit to substitute for them other rates or modes of contribution to the expenses of the government. The moneys so collected are to be used for the purpose of paying the expenses of government under the military occupation, such as the salaries of the judges and the police, and for the payment of the expenses of the Army.
Stran 263 - That in time of war every officer serving with troops operating against an enemy who shall exercise, under assignment in orders issued by competent authority, a command above that pertaining to his grade, shall be entitled to receive the pay and allowances of the grade appropriate to the command so exercised...
Stran 57 - ... admission, to quietly disarm an army of Spaniards more than equal in numbers to the American troops, and finally by all this to prevent entirely all rapine, pillage, and disorder, and gain entire and complete possession of a city of 300,000 people filled with natives hostile to the European interests, and stirred up by the knowledge that their own people were fighting in the outside trenches, was an act which only the law-abiding, temperate, resolute American soldier, well and skillfully handled...
Stran 383 - That the commanding officer of each garrison, fort, or other place, regiment or corps, detached battalion, or company, or other detachment in the army, shall have power to appoint for such place or command, or in his discretion for each battalion thereof, a summary court to consist of one officer to be. designated by him...
Stran 63 - General, in announcing the establishment of military government, and in entering upon his duty as Military Governor in pursuance of his appointment as such by the government of the United States, desires to assure the people that so long as they preserve the peace and perform their duties toward the representatives of the United States they will not be disturbed in their persons and property, except in so far as may be found necessary for the good of the service of the United States and the benefit...
Stran 132 - While it is held to be the right of the conqueror to levy contributions upon the enemy in their seaports, towns, or provinces which may be in his military possession by conquest, and to apply the proceeds to defray the expenses of the war, this right is to be exercised within such limitations that it may not savor of confiscation.
Stran 62 - The government established among you by the United States is a government of military occupation; and for the present it is ordered that the municipal laws such as affect private rights of persons and property, regulate local institutions, and provide for the punishment of crime, shall be considered as continuing in force, so far as compatible with the purposes of military government, and that they be administered through the ordinary tribunals substantially as before occupation, but by officials...
Stran 302 - Persons employed in hospitals and ambulances, comprising the staff for superintendence, medical service, administration, transport of wounded, as well as chaplains, shall participate in the benefit of neutrality, whilst so employed, and so long as there remain any wounded to bring in or to succor.
Stran 299 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America ; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
Stran 131 - All persons who, by active aid or honest submission, co-operate with the United States in its efforts to give effect to this beneficent purpose, will receive the reward of its support and protection.