Annual Report (or Report) of the Secretary of War, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 |
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acres allotment amount appropriation Ariz Arsenal article of war Artillery average battery Board building bullet cadets caliber Camp Capt carriage Cavalry Cession of jurisdiction commanding Davids Island depots diameter Discharges diseases duty ending June 30 Engineers Enlisted expenses feet fever Fifth Cavalry fiscal year ending Fort Assinniboine Fort Barrancas Fort Leavenworth Fort Monroe Fort Riley Fort Sheridan Fort Spokane Fort Supply Gunshot injury Harbor Headquarters hospital Improving inch Indian Infantry Island June 30 Kans Leavenworth Lieut lieutenant longitude mean strength ment miles military posts Mont mortar National Cemetery Nebr Noneffectiveness officers Ordnance pipes Post-office Present garrison prison projectile quartermaster Quartermaster's Department quarters R. R. stn railroad recommended repairs Reservation rifle River soldiers station Subsistence telegraph tion Total troops U. S. Army U. S. Military Academy Wash Washington water supply West Point wound of entrance wound of exit
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Page 798 - ... payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns...
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Page 372 - For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars.
Page 765 - SIR : I have the honor to submit this my annual report for the Military Academy for the year ending September 1, 1896.
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