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Show Condition of the National Guard in the Various States. According to the latest 'war department depart-ment records, the condition of the National Na-tional Guard is as follows:: Alabama Medical department, good ; field artillery, poor; infantry, fair and good. Arizona Medical department, good ; infantry, fair and good. Arkansas First Infantry Companies B, D, F and E, poor ; others good or Of the 36 brigades, on paper, making mak-ing up these divisions only 28 have their headquarters organized. Due to the troops of many of the brigades and most of the divisions being from different states, and the war department depart-ment having no regular officers to spare, there is no one available for these staffs. For the 127 regiments of Infantry and cavalry there should be 635 machine ma-chine guns. At last reports a few weeks ago there were but 172 In the possession of the various regiments. very good. Second Infantry Companies Compa-nies C and K, poor; others good or fair. California Medical department, good; cavalry, fair; field artillery, very good; coast artillery, good and fair; Infantry, fair or poor by company. Colorado Medical department, good ; corps of engineers, fair; cavalry, good ; field artillery, poor; Infantry, good and poor by compaules. Connecticut Medical department, very good ; cavalry, good and excellent excel-lent ; field artillery, very good ; coast artillery, good and very good by companies; com-panies; infantry, excellent and very good. District of Columbia Medical department, de-partment, excellent; signal corps, fair; Infantry, fair, good and excellent by compaules. Georgia Medical department, fair; infantry, fair and poor by companies; cavalry, good; field artillery, very good ; coast artillery, good and poor by compaules. Idaho Infantry very good and good. Illinois Medical department, very good; engineer corps, fair; cavalry, excellent ex-cellent and very good; field artillery, very good and good; Infantry, very good and fair by companies; Seventh and Eighth infantry, Chicago, excellent and very good. Indiana Medical department, fair; field artillery, fair; Infantry, good and very good by companies. Iowa Medical department, fair; field artillery, good ; Infantry, fair and very good by companies. Kansas Medical department, very good; Held artillery, fair; Infantry, very good and good by companies. Kentucky Medical department, fair; infantry, fair and good to excellent ex-cellent by companies. Louisiana Medical department, very good; cavalry, good; field artillery, artil-lery, fair; infantry, good, fair and poor by companies. Maine Medical department, fair; coast artillery corps, fair and good ; Infantry, In-fantry, good. Maryland Medical department, very good ; infantry, very good and fair by companies. Massachusetts Medical department, excellent; cavalry, very good; field artillery, ar-tillery, excellent ; coast artillery, good and very good ; Infantry, good and very good by companies. Michigan Medical department, poor; engineers' corps, fair; signal corps, good ; cavalry, good ; field artillery, artil-lery, poor; infantry, good and very good. Minnesota Medical department, fair; field artillery, very good; infantry, in-fantry, good and very good by companies. com-panies. Mississippi Medical department, poor; infantry, fair and poor by companies. Missouri Medical department, good ; cavalry, very good ; artillery, excellent; excel-lent; Infantry, very good and fair by companies. Montana Medical department very good ; infantry, excellent and good. Nebraska Medical department, very good ; infantry, excellent, good and fair by companies. New Hampshire Medical department, depart-ment, fair; cavalry, fair; field artillery, artil-lery, good; coast artillery, poor; Infantry, In-fantry, excellent and very good. New Jersey Medical uepartment, very good ; cavalry, good ; artillery, very good ; infantry, fair to ;;ood. New Mexico Medical department, good; artillery, excellent; infantry, very good and good. |