SECOND REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Major Harvey A. Allen, to be Lieutenant Colonel, July 2, 1877, vice French, promoted to the Fourth Artillery.

Captain James McMillan, of the Third Artillery, to be Major, July 2, 1877, vice Allen, promoted.

THIRD REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

First Lieutenant John L. Tiernon, to be Captain, July 2, 1877, vice McMillan, promoted to the Second Artillery. (Battery “B.") Second Lieutenant Charles Sellmer, to be First Lieutenant, July 2, 1877, vice Tiernon, promoted. (Battery "B.")

FOURTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Lieutenant Colonel William H. French, of the Second Artillery. to be Colonel, July 2, 1877, vice Roberts, retired from active service. Second Lieutenant George H. Paddock, to be First Lieutenant. April 19, 1877, vice Knapp, deceased. (Battery "G.")

FIFTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Second Lieutenant William P. Duvall, to be First Lieutenant, April 9, 1877, vice Denison, resigned. (Battery "M.")

EIGHTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

First Lieutenant Egbert B. Savage, to be Captain, May 30, 1877. vice Ogilby, deceased. (Company "E.")

Second Lieutenant William H. McMinn, to be First Lieutenant. May 17, 1877, vice Whitney, appointed Regimental Quartermaster. (Company "K.")

Second Lieutenant Charles M. Baily, to be First Lieutenant, May 30, 1877, vice Savage, promoted. (Company "F.")

NINTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Second Lieutenant William H. Miller, to be First Lieutenant. July 1, 1877, vice Griffith, resigned. (Company "A.")

TENTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Second Lieutenant Alured Larke, to be First Lieutenant, April 25, 1877, vice Jewett, resigned. (Company "F.")

TWELFTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Second Lieutenant Harry L. Haskell, to be First Lieutenant, June 30, 1877, vice Fleming, dismissed. (Company "F.”)

First Lieutenant Cass Durham, to be Captain, June 30, 1877, vice Ogden, dismissed. (Company "B.")

Second Lieutenant Frank H. Barnhart, to be First Lieutenant, June 30, 1877, vice Durham, promoted. (Company “E.")

TWENTIETH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Second Lieutenant William H. Low, jr., to be First Lieutenant, April 7, 1877, vice Morris, deceased. (Company "E.")

TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

First Lieutenant William H. Boyle, to be Captain, April 23, 1877, vice Smith, deceased. (Company "G.")

Second Lieutenant Robert H. Fletcher, to be First Lieutenant, April 23, 1877, vice Boyle, promoted. (Company "C.")

Second Lieutenant Daniel Cornman, to be First Lieutenant, June 17, 1877, vice Theller, killed in action with Indians.

"G.")

TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

(Company

Second Lieutenant Orlando L. Wieting, to be First Lieutenant, April 25, 1877, vice Taylor, dismissed. (Company "H.")

TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Second Lieutenant Morris C. Wessells, to be First Lieutenant, May 15, 1877, vice Custer, appointed Regimental Quartermaster. (Company "F.")

II...APPOINTMENTS.

TENTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Thomas J. Clay, of Kentucky, to be Second Lieutenant, April 25, 1877, vice Jouett, transferred to the Tenth Cavalry.

(Company

"B.")

TWENTIETH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Erastus W. Maxwell, of Massachusetts, to be Second Lieutenant, June 13, 1877, vice Low, promoted. (Company "C.")

TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Sergeant Theodore Mosher, jr., of the Signal Service, to be Second Lieutenant, April 19, 1877, vice Davies, promoted. (Com

TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

William A. Nichols, of Kansas, to be Second Lieutenant, May 7, 1877, vice Pardee, promoted. (Company "H.")

Stephen O'Connor, late First Lieutenant, to be Second Lieutenant, June 9, 1877, vice Wieting, promoted. (Company "K.")

RE-APPOINTMENT.

Under an act of Congress approved March 3, 1877.

Thomas J. Spencer, of Michigan, late First Lieutenant, Tenth Cavalry, to be First Lieutenant, Tenth Cavalry, May 3, 1877, with his former rank and relative grade in the Army, from June 1, 1867, and without pay or allowances for the time he was out of the military service.

III...TRANSFERS.

Major Henry R. Mizner, from the Twelfth Infantry to the Eighth Infantry, May 14, 1877.

Major Thomas S. Dunn, from the Eighth Infantry to the Twelfth Infantry, May 14, 1877.

IV... RETIRED.

For incapacity resulting from long and faithful service, from wounds or injury received, from disease contracted, or from exposure in the line of duty, in conformity with sections 16 and 17, act of August 3, 1861. [Section 1251, Revised Statutes.] Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, Third Cavalry, June 25, 1877.

By direction of the President, in conformity with section 12, act of July 17, 1862. [Section 1244, Revised Statutes.] Colonel Joseph Roberts, Fourth Artillery, July 2, 1877.

First Lieutenant David S. Denison, Fifth Artillery, April 9, 1877. First Lieutenant George R. Griffith, Ninth Infantry, July 1, 1877. First Lieutenant Charles E. Jewett, Tenth Infantry, April 25, 1877.

Second Lieutenant Elbert Wheeler, First Artillery, June 12, 1877. Second Lieutenant James H. Whitten, Fifth Infantry, May 31,

1877.

Second Lieutenant Edward R. Ames, Sixth Infantry, April 20, 1877.

DIED. (11.)

Colonel Charles McCormick, Surgeon, at New York City, April 28, 1877.

Major James R. Mears, U. S. Army, (retired,) at Madison, Wisconsin, April 26, 1877.

Major Daniel Chase, U. S. Army, (retired,) at Toledo, Ohio, June 24, 1877.

Captain Frederick D. Ogilby, Eighth Infantry, at Camp Apache, Arizona Territory, May 30, 1877.

Captain Harry M. Smith, Twenty-first Infantry, at Fort Lapwai, Idaho Territory, April 23, 1877.

First Lieutenant William C. C. Andrews, Assistant Surgeon, drowned, April 19, 1877, in Young's Bay, near Astoria, Oregon. First Lieutenant Joshua L. Knapp, Fourth Artillery, drowned, April 19, 1877, in Young's Bay, near Astoria, Oregon.

First Lieutenant Bishop Aldrich, Eighth Infantry, at Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory, May 16, 1877.

First Lieutenant Louis M. Morris, Twentieth Infantry, at Lower Brule Agency, Dakota Territory, April 7, 1877.

First Lieutenant Edward R. Theller, Twenty-first Infantry, killed, June 17, 1877, in action with Indians, near the mouth of White Bird Creek, Idaho Territory.

Second Lieutenant Henry B. Chamberlain, Tenth Infantry, at Fairfield, Connecticut, June 20, 1877.

Captain Edward H. Leib, Fifth Cavalry, May 9, 1877.

Captain Morgan L. Ogden, Eighteenth Infantry, June 30, 1877. First Lieutenant William W. Fleming, Twelfth Infantry, June 30, 1877.

First Lieutenant George McM. Taylor, Twenty-third Infantry, April 25, 1877.

Second Lieutenant Edward L. Keyes, Fifth Cavalry, April 28, 1877. Second Lieutenant Satterlee C. Plummer, Fourth Infantry, July 1, 1877.

Second Lieutenant Samuel K. Thompson, Twenty-fifth Infantry,

Second Lieutenant William C. Roundy, Eighth Infantry, May 2, 1877.

VI... Officers have been arranged in the foregoing order to the companies and batteries to which they have succeeded in the natural course of promotion or appointment, or to which they have been assigned by competent authority.

VII...Acceptance or non-acceptance of appointment, and, in case of acceptance, the birth-place of the officer appointed, his age and residence when appointed, and his full name, correctly written, will, in all cases, be promptly reported to the Adjutant General.

VIII...In case of the death of an officer, it is hereby made the duty of his immediate commanding officer to report the fact at once. direct to this office, stating the cause, date, and place.

When an officer away from his command dies in hospital or under treatment, the medical officer in charge will forward the report as above required; if not under treatment by an Army medical officer, the report will be made by any officer having cognizance of the fact. BY COMMAND OF GENERAL SHERMAN:

OFFICIAL:

THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant General.

Assistant Adjutant General.