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o U |1« -O- I : rThe ; Pe iwr AMint SrrA xn i N«.‘ ; A if m v,—Tlie c o m-position of tb □ permcuieut military, establishment of the country seems to Uc settled as follow^ : ■General'oliiccr*—Quo Genera], five Lieutenant CoomiH, fifty Mnjoi1 Generals1 and seventy-live Rripntiicr Generals. The regular army-proper will ho.composed of nineteen,regimenla ol ipiautry, nix. regiments ol'cnyulry, aiul five regiments of artillery, all filled up to U:-e inaximurdhuinber.' Fifty thousand colored troops will be retained, Hancock^ corps wilf be increased to a fuli corps :if three divisions of three brigades caeb-^abont ‘ftU,Gl)p men.' The vctcratt’reHcrve cor pa; twenty-live regiments, will he filled up to the maximum.number. Under the proposed, arrangement- tile total strength of theuvmy wilL be nearly as follows ... Regular.infantry ,45.000; regular' cavalry,. i-lM.O0;' jugular artillery, i2’00b? colored troops;.50,000;’' lfhncoclrs Corps, 30,000; ve te ran reserve corpa , *Jf .000; to taV,177,000 men.' ;; ' ‘ ; 1 • ■ =• .1/JLVxas istrrhavG a',new railroad ;,.onc often project.*'A, -I)?;t which ueetlft. militaryr niicesissi fcy to bring it, intp idled. ,The railron.il so bCleti ■proposed to be .built from -Brazos. Santiago Iq Browosv.iiw, it Is now certain, is , to be bnill, so as.to 2nake garrisoning and provisioning lbs posts on Ahc.Rio Grande l'fioro easy, The country ^produces nothing, and liie* truops limst receive all their, supplies JVoin [bis city. rlf each of the powers!J maintains, an: arm or ten to twenty IhVnsaud men an the Rio*0 ramie, our, trade .jwith .that region will for .some tlmo-bo quite, large.—X O'. Jfidayum: . ; . 1
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 04, 1865
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