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War department orders establish military posts headquarters
Washington dispatches report the War Department requiring all military headquarters to be at military posts. Generals Sheridan McDowell Pope Crook Howard Terry Ord Augur Crook may shift the westward, with the new policy enforcing non allowance for officers quarters.
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Washington
War Department
Sheridan
Chicago
McDowell
Presidio
Pope
Fort Leavenworth
Department of Arizona
Prescott
Gels Hancock
Military ‘Division
the Atlantic
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Howard
Fort Vancouver
Oregon
Terry
Fort Snelling
Ord
San’ Antonio
Texas
Arsenal
Augur
Newport Barracks
Kentucky
Crook
Department of the Platte
Omaha Barracks
Congress
Galveston
San Antonio
Mackenzie
Shafter
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Young
Devils’ River
Bear Mountain
Col. Shafter
San Diego
San Rodigos
Rimonsino
San Rodigo
Valdez
Mexico
Col
Munci
United States
San Francisco
Silver City
Bernard
McGregor
Bear Skin
Richmond