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Show NEW ARMY AjiCNNTENTS. J Tk lhra Oranil lMvl.l.jn ijf tha Army of i tha UaOf l Slate Alii.ri.liatt. ' ,T(auisiJTO!L July 8 Secrete Ff hjf t . ''sW MtXiiilcd Stales. ' Tlie'o wife 'the At-Jlfie, At-Jlfie, 1'acilic and Missouri, com-uiaiided com-uiaiided respectively by General Howard, linger, and Jliles. Ity todays oruerJho departments remain re-main inisct, the Iprposl.) being to make. Ill licpartineut coinnianuers report directly to Major (it-rn-ral ."seholield, uoiiiiiianding the army slid lo the i-eero-laiy of war instead of as heretofore reporting re-porting to llimr division con-inatn!ers. Ono of tho features of the order is Ihe assgnment of (jem ral Kant, to tiie command of tho (lep.ittu.eiit of Ihe Columbia, which he carn;-.t.y t'eairetl to ciiiiiinand as it was there h'.s first i military service win rendered ami where he wishes lo retire next year Major-! Ieneral Huh ar I is assigned to the command of the department o! tiie east, wilh iieiitipinrlers al limernoia' isiiind. New Yura heritor. Major-tiencial Miles is as''gueil to li e command of Ihe dpai tinent of the Missouri, which will embrace the states uf Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, liii lint. M .iso I ri, Kansas and Arkansas, and Oklahoma and linliau tei'r.torit-s; iieadiliarlers at Chicago. brigadier (ieneral Urooks is a-slmed to the command of the dep.irtuictil of Platte, headquarters at Oiunha, and the atu of Coiuiailo is added to that department. de-partment. brigadier General Merritt is assigned to tho depatui'n'iit of Dakota, huad-qmuters huad-qmuters al M. Paul. lirig. lien- .Stanley ascigneti the cotu-ci.niiiu-.nd of the department of Texas, lii:adiUar'.eis al Sau Antonio, Texas. Hrig. (ien. linger is assineil to tho command of thi department of California, Califor-nia, headquarters at J.ns Angelts, California. |