Show NEW MILITARY departments secretary of war creates those of the gulf and the baxes washington march 12 the war de parl ment today promulgated its order creating crea the departments of the gulf and of the lakes and abolishing the depart menta of the missouri and of texas the department of the east will embody the elates on the atlantic coast including north carolina the department of the lakes will include illinois indiana ohio kentucky and with headquarters at chicago uhe department of abo gulf will comprise south carolina georgia florida 1 louisiana and Texa headquarters at atlanta GenDro oko will command abo depart ment of the lakes and cadier general th department of the gulf the department dep artmont is makini effort to execute the changes in the great departments announced in the order tp which reference was made yea abo important chance by the order sas the creation of the new de par tiMit of the gull by the tion ot the old department of terse with the portion of the department part ment of the east the other changes made were in the direction of rectifying the of the central western departments eo as to make them more accessible in all portions from their respective central headquarters for this reason the slate of ohio for many years attached to the department of the east has been thrown into the department of the which now takes the name of the department of the lakes the change in name is for purely reasons the western elates included in the department of the dakotas have been transferred to abe department of the platte while to maintain the present proportions of this department the northern tiona have been thrown into the department of the dakota no changes have been nade ia the department of the columbia the department of california or the department of colorado heretofore there had been only one military center along the atlantic namely that of new york but the present conditions of affairs made it apparent from a military standpoint that it was de to have another military center in atlanta the bame conr mander brigadier general graham will be in command of the department of texas telegraphed the war department part ment today that he would go to atlanta next monday and establish headquarters there |