Department

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Army rolls, War of 1812, Recruiting,
Deserters.

Volunteer Service Branch-Volunteer
Service Division, Enrollment, Bounty
and Claims, Colored troops.
Enlisted Volunteer Pension Branch-
Volunteer rolls and records Division,
Discontinued Commands, Prisoners of
War, Misc. and copying, Pension records.

At the close of the Civil War and for several years thereafter the military records of soldiers taking part in the Rebellion and its suppression were kept in the Office of The Adjutant General, whereas the medical records were kept in the office of the Surgeon General. The work of arranging these papers for the purpose of record and pensions was so great that with the limited personnel available, the two offices were many thousands of cases behind. There was, therefore, established a separate division of the War Department to be known as the record and pension office of the War Department and from July 8 to July 16th, 1889, the military and medical records of disbanded organizations were turned over to it. With the records went one division of the Surgeon General's Office, 13 divisions of the Adjutant General's office and a small contingent of clerks from the office of the Pay Master General of the Army.

During the year 1890 there were two integral changes in the office, the one an improvement from within, the other an increase from without. On January

system of letters sent and received books, substituting therefor a card system which obtained until the commencement of the World War. General Order No. 11 of that year directed that all condemned colors, standards and guidons be sent to The Adjutant General for preservation and safe keeping. The following year because it was found that the card used in the system established in 1890 was too large, the blank containing the data was made smaller.

In 1892 the Division of Military Information in the Office of The Adjutant General was reorganized and given the following specific duties:

a. Collection and classification of military information of own and foreign countries.

b. Preparation of instructions for the guidance of officers serving or traveling abroad or acting as Military Attaches. A digest of their reports.

c. Issuance of maps and monographs. d. Correspondence with State authorities and militia officers on questions effecting the organizat on and armament of the militia of the States and Territories.

e. Preparation of instructions to officers detailed by the Secretary of War to visit the several encampments of State troops.

f. The study and preparation of plans for the mobilization and transportation of militia and volunteers and their disbandment, and for concentration of the military forces of the United States at the various strategic points on or near the frontiers.

g. In charge of the Museum of Military Relics.

A card index was made containing names of civilian employees found a 14,481 Confederate pay rolls, and fe names of 43,835 persons mentioned in letters received by the Confederate War Department were carded. At the same time the office was indexing letters and letter books of the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General, and Quartermaster General.

In 1894 the majors in the Department were reduced to four. The Adjutant General made a transfer of personnel and material to the Record and Pension Office. In this change were included the Confederate archives Division and Subdivision, such records of the Returns Division and the appointment, commission and personnel branch that pertained wholly or in part to the volunteer forces of any war, and all special orders, general orders, or copies thereof, records, files. books, manuscripts, orders, returns of correspondence pertaining to the same subject. In return there was transferred to The Adjutant General from the Record and Pension Office, the military records of discontinued commands, armies, divisions, departments, and posts pertaining exclusively to the Regular Army. Coincident with this transfer, the Adjutant General completed a chronological list of battles in which troops of the permanent establishment had participated, from the organization of the Army together with statistics of losses and the names of all officers killed or wounded in action. [To be Continued]

2. Each recruiter should be familiar with the location of the camps in the orps area, the time of holding the same nd be able to explain the different ourses given at the various camps.

3. By getting hold of some one young man in the town who is a good representative boy and get him interested and then endeavor to get his parents interested in sending him and visit him at the camp.

I can best explain this by reciting a sample experience of mine last year when I covered western Missouri and western Kansas giving talks on these camps. At some of the small towns in western Kansas the high schools had closed and the only way to talk to the boys was to get a few together and endeavor to get one representative boy interested and he would advertise it for the town. When there was no one to assemble a bunch of boys the corner drug store was always a good place to start as there was always a bunch of war veterans around to inquire what a man in uniform was doing there. As soon as they would learn the object of the visit invariably some one would mention the name of a boy who ought to go to camp. "Tom Smith ought to go to camp; he isn't going to work this summer." Then determine which one of the boys mentioned is of good standing and would have a following of other boys and go to work on him and when he is interested go and talk to the parents and make a point of their visiting the camp and seeing what it is.

Now many a recruiter in these smaller towns ought to be able to do something along this line and interest just one boy. This is just what each Reserve Officer is asked to do each year. One interested boy in a small town is worth all the rest of the advertising put together.

Twelfth Infantry Battalion at the Sesqui-centennial

Aside from the honor attached to representing the Army at the Philadelphia Sesqicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia, the Third Battalion of the 12th Infantry made a practical test of modern transportation methods in leaving their home at Fort Washington, Maryland, under the convoy of 63 trucks guided by the 23rd Maintenance Company of Camp Meade, Maryland.

Army Radio Station for Chandalar, Alaska

Chandalar, one of the most northern settlements in America, well north of the Arctic Circle, will have a permanent tie binding it with the rest of the world when the Signal Corps completes its task of constructing a radio branch of the Washington—Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System there. Work will be rushed while the weather is favorable, and the Signal Corps will furnish another monument to its pioneering activities.

THE PASSING OF JENNY

By

LIEUTENANT DANIEL ROCHFORD, ORC.

Gentle Jenny, hear my sigh.

I'm told, my dear, you're gonna die And pass away.

They've gone beyond your wires and wings,

They build them now with better things, You've had your day.

Oh, Jenny Darling, hear my moan, Remember all the hours we've flown And all that sky.

With you I learned to loop and spin, With you I've kept the old hand inGee, I could cry!

No more your faithful motor's roar Will bid me come with you and soar To higher ceiling.

No more the thrill o'er wood and hill To roll and twist and, bolder still, Turn up in wheeling.

Spare parts for ferries, Fords and ,phones,

They've hawked for gelt your tired bones

To junking buyers.

They've ruled it so and brought you low -Too fat, too crude, too old, too slow For modern flyers.

L'ENVOI

Oh let them boast new wings and struts!

They're upstart planes, just pompous sluts,

And never will have Jenny's guts,
Or easy disposition!

Though builders scheme and fret and frame,

No plane they make can cloud her fame Or take her place in the flying game From now until perdition.

* This poem, originally published in the Boston Transcript, the author states, was inspired by an article which appeared in the May 15, 1926, issue of the Recruiting News, entitled "The 'Jenny' Ship Discarded."

Recent Survey Reveals Truth of Recruiting Slogan

(Continued From Page Three) and nothing interfere with their instruction.

That the response of the men to the opportunities offered by the government is whole-hearted and enthusiastic is found in the fact that, while attendance at the schools might be made compulsory, it has never had to be made so, because always there are more men desirous of availing themselves of the privilege than facilities will care for.

That the schools are worth while, is evidenced by the large number of men who each year leave the service to accept well paying positions as a result of their army training.

"The United States Army Builds Men."

Foster Spirit of Independence In an article appearing in a recent issue of the Army Ordnance in which he discussed the Citizens Military Training Camps in their relation to our military policy, Major General Charles P. Summerall, commanding the Second Corps Area, declared that the fear expressed in some quarters that these camps will tend to develop a militaristic spirit is entirely without foundation.

In part the General said:

"This principle (upon which the camps are based) is one that has always been followed by peace-loving self-governing peoples who have had success in maintaining independence. * *It is an outward expression of an independent spirit.

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"I believe," continued the General, "that the finest thing about these C.M. T. Camps is their spirit of American democracy-a democracy of youth."

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Amatol Arsenal Becomes a Race Track The old Amatol Arsenal, near Atlantic City, New Jersey, the scene of gigantic munition activities, during the War has recently been converted into a race track.

San Francisco Marksmen To Use Presidio Range

San Francisco civilian rifle and pistol clubs are drawing up schedules for firing on the new range at the Presidio, the use of which has been granted to the local organizations by Colonel Frank C. Bolles. James F. McCue, representing the National Rifle Association of America, has thanked the Army for its oourtesy in extending the use of the range, reputed to be the best on the Pacific Coast, to civilian marksmen.

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N 1895 the assistant Adjutant Generals on the Staff of Department Commanders, became known as Department Adjutants. The distribution of the publications of the several bureaus and offices of the Department was turned over to the Chief Signal Officer, who was in supervisory charge of the War Department Library. The military prison was temporarily discontinued and turned over to the Department of Justice to be used by them while their own penitentiary was being built.

With the coming of the War with Spain in 1898, the Department was increased by one colonel and one major, but it was provided that when the volunteers should be mustered out and the Regular Army returned to peace strength no new appointments in the Department would be made until these two officers were absorbed. The Staff of the Commanding Officer of an Army Corps was allowed one lieutenant colonel, Adjutant General's Deparment and one captain, Adjutant General's Department, a division, 1 major Adjutant General's Department, and a brigade 1 captain Adjutant General's Department. The mustering in of the large volunteer Army in April and May, and the mustering out of 100,000 men, five months later, presented an unexampled condition of affairs under which the office had to labor. Of the officers of the Department at the beginning of the war, six were appointed general officers of volunteers and two others served with troops in the field.

At the close of the war in the following year, it was provided that The Adjutant General's and Inspector General's Department should consist of the number of officers now in those Departments respectively, and that vacancies in the grade of major occurring in either Department should thereafter be filled from captains in the line of the Army, and further provided that all such captains who evinced marked aptitude in command of troops should be reported by their commanding officer to the War Department and entitled to compete for any such vacancy under such system of examination as the President should prescribe. The Department at that time had 14 officers.

In 1901 the numbers of the Department were raised to 28, but no more permanent appointments were to be made after the original vacancies created by the increase should have been filled. Officers detailed were to serve for a period of four years, at the expiration of which time they were returned to duty with the line; and officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel were not eligible for selection to any

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Staff Department until they should have served two years with troops. The system of appointing the chief of any staff corps or department was prescribed. The President with the advice and consent of the Senate might appoint to such a position any officer of the Army not below the grade of lieutenant colonel who should hold that office for four years, provided that if there remained in the service, officers holding permanent appointments in any staff corps or department, the chief of such must be selected from among them.

Under the direction of The Adjutant General, in 1902, the Map Section of the Military Information Division began the preparation of maps and problems for the use of examining boards for officers.

In 1903, a General Staff corps, as we know it today, was first established. The whole year was one of adjustments in the various duties. On January 21, a militia division was established in The Adjutant General's Office and the laws, reports and files in the Military Informa

The "Lonesome Palm," Old Panama

tion Division were turned over to i August 15, it, along with the re files, property and persons employed, a transferred to the office of the Chi Staff. In order to clarify the dutie The Adjutant General's Department s the formation of a Genearl Staff: General Order of August 14th defe that The Adjutant General be the Burm of Orders and Records of the Army and that under the Secretary of Wz he be charged with the management c recruiting service, with the comment tion of instructions to officers detailed: visit encampments of militia, with ding, arranging and preserving their ports, and with the preparation of fr annual returns of the militia required by law to be submitted to Congress. The then Adjutant General was detailed t the General Staff and became princip assistant to its Chief.

IN ORDER to simplify the business methods and expedite the work i the War Department, the following d sion of duties was made between the Adjutant General's Office and the Re cord and Pension Office: the Adjutant General to retain and have charge of all current business relating to organiz tions or personnel so long as they should remain in service, and the Record and Pension Office to have charge of all business of a historical nature relating to either regulars or volunteers. The Re turns Division and Rolls Division a organized on June 30, including the re cords and clerks, were to be transferred from the Adjutant General's Office to the Record and Pension Office.

In 1904, for the first time since its creation in 1813, The Adjutant General's Department, as such went out of exist ence. By Act of April 23, the officers of The Adjutant General's Department except The Adjutant General, and the officers of the Record and Pension Office, were consolidated into a separate branch known as the Military Secretary's De partment, while The Adjutant General's Office and the Record and Pension Office were consolidated into a Military Secre tary's Bureau. Brigadier General Ains worth who had been head of the Record and Pension Office became the Military Secretary with the rank of Major Gen eral. Previous to the consolidation, all records of the Mail and Record Division, except cards of recent dates, had been turned over to the Record and Pension Office.

In 1905, work was started towards delivering Union and Confederate flags that were in the custody of the War De [Continued on Page Fourteen]