| Show army acers ordered to IMY duty tho the following assignments to lo duy du y iw have 0 been or dertil ly by the secretary of ar major bajor david dai d Ir hunter unter now at st L louis s to return to fort leavenworth Lea renworth c on n being relieved from his frodent resent duties major L J beale now at san A antonio n texas to proceed via iia washington D L C to st louis to assume th the e duties of ins his department at that point major james longstreet Longa Long treet to take post temporarily at fort leavenworth major C graham topographical ica I 1 E engineers n sneers is assigned to duty in in tile the J department apartment of texas to report to the commandant of that department with ith as little delay as possible instead of proceeding to the headquarters of the department of oregon as directed by special order no of october 8 1858 brevet second li lieutenant aut IV II 11 echo JG chols s topographical engineers Engin cers will report rep or t for duty duly to the commandant of tl the ae department of texas on or before bedfor e t the he of pr ox SECEr SECRETARY TAny floyds REPLY TO MILITARY COMMITTEE the newspaper press or of the country ba has s ca circulated the report by authority that secretary floyd I 1 iod in in his reply to the military committee of the house of es stated that no addition to the present force of the army would be necessary to carry out the recommendations lations ions of the president relative e to 10 a military occupation of chihuahua and sonora governor floyd said nothing of the kind though the singular phraseology used by hurt him was well calculated to leave such an all impression lie ile said ini in his reply that there would be no addi ion ion to the present necessity for an increase increase of the army 11 what that present necessity is la ho he does not tell us swell sw ell the present army to the magnitude lie he would desire and lie he might well say there would be no add addition to this increase necessary |
