Show ARMY ASSIGNMENTS I Changes Made Ifeosssary By Recent Details of Generals Washington April lGThe following i assignments to command of posts have been made to fill vacancies caused by the detals of generals of various brigades 1 bri-gades of the army mobilized in the south Colonel J M Bacon of the Eighth I cavalry row at Fort Meade will take charge of the department of the Dakota I Da-kota and the lakes 1 in the absence of I Generals Brooke and Wade Colonel E V Sumner Seventh cavalry now at Frt Grant Arts will command tlu departments of the Missouri and of th Colorado in the absence of Genera Coppingir and General Otis Brigadie General H C Merriam now In command com-mand of the department of the Columbia Colum-bia at Vancouver barracks will alf take command of the department o California in the absence of Genera Shatter Captain JohnA Johnson oj the Eighth cavalry now at Fort Meade S D has been ordered to do duty in the adjutant general offices I |