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(1903), pp. 191-225; Pickett, History of Ala- bama (Owen's ed., 1900), pp. 712-718; Hamil- ton, Mobile of the five flags (1913), pp. 345- 358; Miller, Alabama (1901), pp. 233-271; Du- Bose, Alabama history (1915), pp. 177-188; and Sketches of Alabama history (1904), pp. 136- 144; Herbert, "How we redeemed Alabama," in Century Magazine, Apr. 1913, vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 854-862; Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, circa 1868-1870; James Shaw, "Reconstruction in Alabama," in Aurora Daily Beacon-News, Aurora, Ill., July 31, 1915; Times and Mes- senger, Selma, editorial, Oct. 29, 1868; Mont- gomery Daily Mail, June 4 and 5, 1868; L. E. Parsons, speech at Talladega Convention, in Alabama Reporter, Talladega, Apr. 14, 1869; Samuel F. Rice, "The living issues of the day," letters to the Montgomery Mail, July 7, 10, and 14, 1869 (n. p., n. d., pp. 12) ; Lewis E. Parsons, Valedictory address to the legislature, Dec. 13, 1865 (n. p., n, d., pp. 16.).
RED BAY. Postoffice and station on the Illinois Central Railroad, in the western part of Franklin County, ahout 25 miles west of Russellville. Population: 1890, Red Bay Precinct 5-602; 1900, Red Bay Pre- cinet 5-654; 1910, Red Bay Precinct 5- 1,271; 1912, the village-472. Among the earliest settlers were E. W. Wattip and the Rogers and Smith families. It was first known as Vincents' Cross Roads, but rail- road builders about 1903 changed its name in honor of the bay flower so abundant along Big Bear Creek.
REFERENCE .- Manuscript data in the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
RED CROSS, THE AMERICAN, IN ALA- BAMA. See American Red Cross in Alabama.
RED MEN, IMPROVED ORDER OF. A patriotic, and fraternal order. With "Free- dom" as its foundation, "Friendship" its keystone and "Charity" its crowning glory, the Improved Order of Red Men rightfully boasts that it is the oldest patriotic and beneficial fraternity of purely American origin. It traces its lineage to the "Sons of Liberty" of 1763 whose members disguised as North American Indians participated in the famous "Tea Party" in Boston Harbor in 1773, were present at the signing of the Dec- laration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and participated in many victorious hattles during the war of the Revolution. During the war of 1812 "The Society of Red Men" was formed at Fort Mifflin, Delaware, in 1813, being the direct successors of the "Sons of Liberty," the "Tammany Society" and the order of Cincinnatus. In the beginning "Freedom" alone was the motto, followed by the addition of "Friendship" during the war of 1812 and finally completed with "Charity" at the organization of the present order at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1835.
During the war between the states, mem- bers of the order fought under the flag and for the side they thought was right hut it is a memorable fact that in 1865 when peace had been declared and though feeling still
ran high between the sections, at the Great Council of the United States, held in Balti- more, representatives from the Southern States were received with open arms around the council fire and smoked the calumet in perfect accord with the brothers of the north
Today in the nation the membership is intensely American. The "Stars and Stripes" are displayed at the kindling of every council fire of every tribe and if the call came they would not hesitate to "carry the Flag and keep Step to the Music of the Union."
The order, however, is essentially peace loving dedicated to the uplifting of its mem- bers, fostering the brotherhood of man, min- istering to the unfortunate, drying the widow's tears and caring for orphan, sincerely believing "Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind," praying for the accomplish- ment of better things for humanity and a truer Christian civilization and hoping for the dawning of the day when "the sword shall he heaten into plough-shares and the spear into pruning hooks."
The first tribe of the order, Winnebago Tribe No. 1, organized in Alabama was in- stituted in Athens, in 1869 under authority from the Great Council of the United States. It surrendered its charter in 1878. The second tribe, Powhattan Tribe No. 2, was in- stituted in the same year at Selma and sur- rendered its charter in 1882. The third tribe, Cherokee Tribe No. 3, was instituted at Fort Hampton in 1871 and surrendered its charter in 1878.
The Great Council of Alabama was insti- tuted on November 19th, 1888, at Birming- ham, Great Incohonee of the Great Council of the United States, Thomas J. Francis of New Jersey, being the officiating chief. The following Tribes holding charter under the Great Council of Georgia since 1886 formed the first Great Council :- Tallapoosa No. 17, Chinnabee No. 15, Powhattan, No. 20, Te- cumseh No. 21, Red Jacket No. 14, Big Wills No. 22, Kiowa No. 25, Oceola No. 24, and Chickasaw League No. 2. The first Great Chiefs elected were:
B. F. Roberts, great sachem, Montgomery.
D. N. Bishop, great senior sagamore.
H. Bousefeld, great junior sagamore.
A. W. Sightler, great chief of records.
James H. Cook, great keeper of waumpum. W. H. Soloman, great prophet.
The Great Sachem appointed the following great chiefs:
H. M. Austin, great sanap.
A. Olmstead, great mishinewa.
A. Adler, Great Guard of the Wigwam.
T. W. Vinson, great guard of the forest.
The second Great Council session was held in Montgomery on May 7, 1889.
Herewith is given the Past Great Sachems of the order, the year elected, the membership at the close of their terms and their Hunt- ing Grounds (residence).
Member-
Year ship Name and
Elected Dec. 31st Hunting Grounds
1888 494 B. F. Roberts, Montgomery
(z) W. H. Solomon, Pratt City
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1189
Member-
Year
ship
Name and
Elected Dec. 31st
Hunting Grounds
1889
503
A. Steinhart, Greenville
*1890
415
(x) H. W. Graham, Anniston
1891
814
(x) T. W. Vinson, Phoenix City
1892
981
(x) F. E. Wilkins, Montgomery (w) H. M. Austin, Birmingham
1893
631
(x) Thos. H. Watts, P. G. I., Montgomery
1894
536
(x) T. W. Moorefield, Birming- ham
1895
427
(p) James Scholes, Coalburg M. D. Friedman, Birmingham
1896
500
R. Y. Porter, Greenville
1897
668
(0) J. T. Freeman, Phoenix
1898
818
Wm. Smilee Smith, Montgom- ery
(s) S. J. Beggs, Woodlawn
1899
733
D. B. Ray, Tallassee
George T. Marsh, Huntsville
1901
1350
(x) W. H. Tice, Montgomery
1902
1497
(x) W. A. Haynes, Grady
(x w) T. B. Hazleton, Gadsden
1903
2929
(x) C. C. Heard, Langdale J. W. Pierson, Avondale
1904
3803
1905
4501
(p) E. D. Corker, Eufaula
1906
4510
John F. Jones, Montgomery
1507
5143
R. E. L. Neil, Selma
1908
4578
Jacob Burger, Birmingham
1909
4942
Mac Featherstone, Greenville
1910
4100
(x) J. T. Letcher, Montgomery
1911
4126
S. H. Saul, Montgomery
1912
4179
F. S. Andrews, Birmingham
1913
4180
John W. Watts, Birmingham
1914
4007
E. C. Harris, Ragland
1915
4001
B. K. McMorris, Montgomery
MEMBER OF GREAT COUNCIL OF UNITED STATES.
J. E. Maddox, Montgomery.
(z) First Great Prophet. (x) Dead. (0) Advanced from G. S. S. (p) Out of the order. (s) G. K. of W. for five years. (w) G. C. of R. for five years.
The Improved Order of Red Men is original in the care of the orphans of deceased mem- bers. Believing in "Not a single Orphan Home but a Home for Every Orphan" the unfortunate little ones are cared for with as- sistance given the mother, enabling her to rear her children at home, bestowing upon them a mother's love and affection and giving them the benefit of a mother's tender solici- tude. In the event of the death of both parents, the child is put in the care of the "next of kin" and its support guaranteed.
At the Great Council Session held in De- catur in 1914 a committee was appointed to bring to the attention of the Legislature of Alabama the action of then twenty-five states of the Union that had adopted a "Mother's Compensation Law," patterned after the plan of the Order of Red Men and having been brought about greatly through the influence of members of the order. This committee was composed of R. E. L. Neil, J. T. Letcher and S. H. Saul, Past Great Sachems of the order in Alabama. A bill
was prepared, an address issued and pre- sented to the legislature, where although it received favorable consideration and was re- ported back from the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, it was never taken from the Calendar and died with the ending of the session. At the last Great Council the committee was continued, Wil- liam Smilee Smith and John F. Jones being substituted for Past Great Sachems Letcher and Saul, the former being deceased, the latter having moved from the Reservation.
A complete list of the tribes is as follows:
1 Tuscaloosa-Tuscaloosa Dormant
2 Catoma-Montgomery .Active
3 Tishomingo-Kellerman Active
4 Warsaw-Mount Olive Dormant
5 Red Jacket-Phenix . Active
6 Pawnee Brookwood Active
7 Tallapoosa-Montgomery Active
8 Noccalula-Alabama City . Active
9 Waxahatchee-Clanton . Active
10 Weoka-Robinson Springs . Dormant
11 Catoma-Fresco Dormant
12 Modoc-Greenville . Active
13 Chewalla-Littleton Dormant
14 Sioux-Anniston .Dormant
15 Coosa-Montgomery Dormant
16 Panola-Sumter Dormant
17 Choctaw-Woodlawn . Active
18 Wehadkee-Roanoke . Active
19 Opelika-Opelika Dormant
20 Buck Branch-Posey .Active
21 Tecumseh-Birmingham Active
22 Seloca-Seloca Active
23 Chickasaw-Helena . Active
24 Topeka-Maben Active
25 Mahawk-Selma Active
26 Sylacauga-Sylacauga Dormant
27 Powhattan-Albertville . Active
28 Tuscahoma-Mobile Dormant
29 Wyandotte Riverview Dormant
30 Tuckabatchee-Tallassee . Active
31 Oneida-Cullman Active
32 Creek-Gurnee Active
33 Talucah-Decatur Active
35 Mohican-Brewton . Active
36 Black Creek-Pratt City . Active
37 Autauga-Prattville Active
38 Nebe-West Blocton . Active
39 Eufaula-Eufaula . Dormant
40 Osannippa-Langdale . Active
41 Manhattan-Sheffield Dormant
42 Sunny Eye-Lewisburg Dormant
43 Welonee Searles Dormant
44 Olustee-LaPine . Dormant
45 Black Water-Cordova Dormant
46 Owassa-Montgomery Dormant
47 Pappoose-Avondale . Active
48 Omersee-Mountaln Creek Active
49 Uchee-Girard Active
50 Cherokee Coalburg . Dormant
51 Shibonee-Adger Dormant
52 Wauhuma-Piper Active
53 Broken Arrow-Coal City Active
54 Little Warrior-Sayre Dormant
55 Catechee-Enterprise Dormant
56 Camp Branch-Wylam Dormant
57 Kilsequah-Daleville . Dormant
58 Choccomaw-Mobile Dormant
59 Tuscahoma-Mobile Active
(s) M. M. Marsh, Mobile
1900
806
(ox) B. F. Alday, Montgomery
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60 Wauneta-Lucile . Active
61 Umatilla-Bessemer Dormant
130 Conny-O-Tubbee-Coalmont .Dormant
131 Black Hawk-Lehigh . Active
132 Wahoo-Maplesville Dormant
133 Bighee-Reform Dormant
134 Pocahontas-Oakman Dormant
135 Muscogee-Cane Creek . Dormant
136 Piute-Ragland Dormant
137 Butahatchee-Townley Dormant
138 Paducah-Falco . Dormant
139 Oconee-Abernant . Active
140 Black Warrior-Jasper Dormant
141 Omaha-Berlin Dormant
'142 Wahnisha-Docena . Active
143 Pintlala-Friendship Church . . Dormant
144 Warrior- Union Grove Dormant
145 Seminole-Lockhart Dormant
146 Sitting Bull-Garnsey . . Active
147 Chippewa-Thorsby . Dormant
148 Iroquois-Aldrich . Dormant
149 Hiawatha-Alexander City. . Dormant
150 Omega-Wylam . Active
151 Litafachi- Beltona . Dormant
152 Natchee-Jacksonville Dormant
153 Talladega-Talladega . Active
154 Costee-Gadsden . Dormant
155 Atchialgi-Sipsey . Active
156 Assahani-Olney . Dormant
157 Fusialgi-Sycamore Dormant
158 Yahalgi-Quinton . Active
159 Osonee- Marvel Active
160 Abikah-Nyota Mines Active
Pocahontas-The woman's auxiliary of the Red Men.
REFERENCES .- Letters from W. B. Macfarran, Great Chief of Records, Great Council of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men, Chicago, in Department of Archives and History.
99 Luxapalia- Fayette .Dormant
100 Alabama-Cardiff . Active
101 Seminole- Berry . Dormant
102 Nevajah-Bessemer Dormant
103-Sawana-Sandusky Active
104 Siluria-Siluria . Active
105 Potomac-Birmingham .Dormant
106 Mantachee-Carbon Hill Dormant
107 Bobo Shela-Ensley Dormant
108 Red Wing-Gadsden Dormant
109 Detroit-Jonesboro Dormant
110 Mulga-Mulga Dormant
111 Tuscumbia-Tuscumbia Dormant
. Dormant
113 Bull Mountain-Vina . Dormant
114 Big Wills-Dolomite
. Dormant
115 Orizaba-Empire .Dormant
116 Cahaba-Coalmont . Dormant
117 Chattahoochee-Shawnut Dormant
118 Wattensaw-Watson
. Active
119 Nauvoo-Nauvoo Dormant
120 Wesobulga-Baileyton
. Active
121 Tulsa-Virginia City. .Active
122 Weogufka-Weogufka .Dormant 123 Winnebago-Barney . Dormant 124 Okmulgee-Lanett . Active
125 Conecuh-Spring Hill . Dormant
126 Chickasawhogue-Prichard . Active
127 Tallahatchee-Childersburg .. Dormant
128 Chickamauga-New Castle Active
129 Cahaba-Margaret Dormant
62 Cubahatchee-Union Springs. . Dormant
{ 3 Red Hatchet-Republic . Active
64 Wouhoma-Birmingham . Dormant
65 Tippecanoe-Montgomery . Dormant
66 Fixico-Schley . Dormant
67 Swift Creek-Billingsley . Dormant
68 Calebee-East Tallassee . Active
69 Grey Eagle-Adamsville RFD No. 1
Dormant
70 Monte Sano-Huntsville . Active
71 Tuskena-Tuskegee . Dormant
72 Muscogee-Girard .Dormant
73 Soft Wind-Dora . Dormant
74 Etowah-Attalla . Dormant
75 Altoona-Altoona Active
76 Ivanhoe-Brookside
77 Suwanee-Birmingham
Dormant
Dormant
Dormant
80 Deer Foot-Crudup
Dormant
81 Tullahoma-Village Springs Active
82 Hichilwa-Dothan
83 Coosa-Anniston
Dormant
85 Mortar Creek-Deatsville
86 Chehoo-Birmingham
87 Patsaliga-Luverne Dormant
88 Wetumpka-Wetumpka
. Active
. Dormant
91 Kermulgee-Short Creek Active
92 Choctawhatchee-Ozark Dormant
93 Red Eagle-Fort Deposit Dormant
94 Tawlequa-Geneva
. Dormant
95 Archicola-Andalusia
. Dormant
96 Chinnahee-Hartford
. Dormant
97 Little Elk-Kimberly
98 Red Feather-Garnsey .Dormant
. Active
. Active
Active
89 Seloma-Bradford
90 Geronimo-Jemison
Dormant Active
84 Osceola-Lipscombs
Dormant
78 Big Canoe-Lahusage
79 Shawnee-Pell City
. . Active
RED ORE. See Iron and Steel.
REFORM. Post office and station on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, and the northern terminus of the Alabama, Tennessee & North- ern Railroad, in the northern part of Pickens County, 10 miles north of Carrollton, and 30 miles northwest of Tuscaloosa. Population: 1870-495; 1880-687; 1900-198; 1910- 550. It was incorporated under the general laws, March 2, 1898, and adopted the munici- pal code of 1907 in June, 1910. The corpo- rate limits are one mile square. The town owns no municipal buildings except the jail; it has a privately owned electric light sys- tem, and has waterworks and sewerage sys- tems under construction. There are paved sidewalks in the business district, and in one- third of the residence section. Its bonded indebtedness is $6,000, school honds, matur- ing in 20 years, and drawing interest at 6 per cent. The State Bank of Reform is the only bank. Its industries are an ice plant, sawmill, a cotton ginnery, a cotton ware- house, 6 lumber mills, a blacksmith and ma- chine shop, a wagon factory, and a wood- working plant. It is the location of the Pickens County High School, whose huilding was paid for by the town and deeded to the State. It has a public park and playground
112 Iroquois-Russellville
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of 3 acres. Reform is the railroad shipping point for a large part of the timber and farm products of that section of Pickens County.
REFERENCES .- Northern Alabama (1888), p. 213; Polk's Alabama gazetteer. 1888-9, p. 671; Smith, Pickens County (1856), p. 172; Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1915.
REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. See Industrial School, Alabama; Juvenile Courts.
REGENTS OF THE WHITE SHIELD. An order whose purpose was to unite the patriotic white men of America, without re- gard to section or sectarian influences, into a national order with the purpose of perpet- uating the cardinal principles of the Amer- ican government - as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, and set forth in the Constitution of the United States. The ruling spirit of the order was to the effect that this country is a white man's country, and should be ruled and governed exclusively by white men. Other purposes were the in- culcation of a sprit of fraternalism between men of the different sections of the Union; the promotion of patriotism and and philan- thropy; the extension of protection to the women of the country against the assaults of negroes as well as to protect the business interests, the person and liberty of the mem- bers and the white men in general against the negrophile, carpet bagger and scallawags, and all enemies of the United States govern- ment and flag.
The order was founded by Dr. Orion T. Dozier of Birmingham, in 1896. The charter membership consisted of six ex-Gonfederate and six ex-Federal soldiers, and the first conclave was established in Birmingham when the founder was made supreme regent com- mander of the order. His successor, several years later, was Major William N. Hunter, an ex-Federal soldier. The order grew rap- idly and spread into adjoining states, its membership made up mostly of high spirited young southerners who, in the main, entered the U. S. Army in the Spanish-American War. At the close of that war the era of good feeling between the sections had firmly set in and with it a confidence among the people of the South that the white men of Amer- ica would regulate and promote such laws as would maintain white supremacy in the United States, and hence no further effort was made to promote the growth of the order, which soon languished and died.
REFERENCES .- Letter from Dr. O. T. Dozier, founder and first supreme regent commander, Birmingham, in Alabama Department of Archives and History.
REGISTRARS, BOARD OF APPOINT- MENT OF. An ex officio board, composed of the governor, the auditor, and the commis- sioner of agriculture and industries, whose duty it is to appoint the county registrars, by whom the qualified electors of each precinct are registered every two years.
Registration of qualified voters was first required in Alabama by the order of Gen. John Pope, April 8, 1867, calling an election for delegates to the convention of 1867. The constitution of 1868, adopted by this conven- tion, provided that the legislature should pro- vide from time to time for the registration of qualified electors of the State. In accordance with this general provision of the constitu- tion, an act was passed October 5, 1868, pro- viding in detail for such registration and placing the supervision of the registration machinery in the hands of the secretary of state. The plan of registration promulgated for the use of the military authorities was in- tended to result, not only in the registration of qualified electors, but also in preventing the possibility of persons voting who were disqualified under the reconstruction scheme. The plan seems to have proven efficacious. It was retained by the Democrats when they came into power and is still in effect. The constitution of 1875 contains a provision similar to that of 1868, and legislation neces- sary to make it effective was had, March 18, 1875, and March 6, 1876. An act of Febru- ary 21, 1893, constituted the probate judge supervisor of registration in his county, but the county registrar, immediately in charge of the work, was appointed by the governor.
In 1903 the work of registration was placed with a county board of three members, ap- pointed by a State board constituted as at present. In 1915, a county registrar was sub- stituted for the county board, but the ex of- ficio board of registration was retained. For details of registration system, see Election Laws.
No publications.
REFERENCES .- Constitutions, 1868, 1875, 1901; Code. 1907, secs. 300-330; Acts. 1868, pp. 203- 206; 1874-75, pp. 68-76; 1875-76, pp. 112-113; 1892-93, pp. 837-851; General Acts, 1903, pp. 438- 479; 1915, pp. 239-248.
REMOUNT DEPOT, MONTGOMERY. Au- xiliary remount depot the purpose of which was to provide an organization and plant for supplying serviceable animals to each division of the army during the period fol- lowing the entrance of the United States in the World War, in this case the troops lo- cated at Montgomery and to supply wagons and harness to the new organizations; pro- vide schools of instruction for horse shoers, teamsters, saddlers, and packers of the line and of the quartermaster corps; provide facilities for receiving and treating, and tak- ing care of all animals that were sick, or which might become sick in the possession of organizations in the vicinity; to take over all sick horses, and supply them with well ones, and to receive from organizations or- dered overseas all unserviceable animals and replace them with serviceable ones; and lastly to receive, care for and dispose of all condemned animals not ordered destroyed.
The auxiliary remount depot no. 312 was located at a little station called Keyton, two and one half miles from Montgomery, on the Central of Georgia Railroad. Construc-
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tion on the Depot began August 5, 1917, and on December 3, 1917, was completed. Fifty- five buildings were at this time ready for oc- cupancy but in a short time they proved insufficient for the needs and the officer in charge of the cantonment was given author- ity to build additional buildings by a letter of December 18, 1917, and by February 2, 1918, the following buildings had been com- pleted; an administration building, one warehouse, one officer's barracks, eight bar- racks for enlisted personnel, three mess halls, one blacksmith shop, one barrack for office force (used for Hospital Detachment), one guard house, four latrines, four showers, four stable buildings (convalescent), twenty stable buildings, four forage buildings, four hospital buildings, two ramps (shipping pens), one ramp (vat pen), one ramp (drip pen), one ramp (unloading pen), one car- penter shop, and three large hay sheds.
The administration building, barracks and mess halis were placed around the clearing (almost encircling same) which had been graded and was used as a parade ground. The three hay sheds, capacity of about five million pounds, were conveniently placed near the unloading spur of the Central of Georgia Railroad and easy accessible for feeding out to the corrals.
The warehouse and receiving pens were about nine hundred feet from the administra- tion building east. This building ( ware- house) was the most substantial on the re- servation, being sixty feet wide and three hundred long and was constructed in twenty working hours. There were well built shutes and platform connecting, for unloading sup- plies and animals, conveniently situated for both warehouse and receiving pens, from the Central of Georgia Railroad which had a spur which ran along side the platform.
The Veterinary hospital was about five hundred feet back of the warehouse and was capable of taking care of five hundred sick animals. It had an enlisted personnel of seventy-five men. A complete re-arrangement of hospital stables was made after suggestions of Major McClure, U. S. Army with a view to making an inner court for the protection of animals with respiratory disease, and was pronounced one of the best in the United States.
The blacksmith shop about two hundred feet south of the warehouse was well built, substantial building thirty-one and one half feet wide and two hundred ninety-seven feet long and was used as a horseshoers' school for the instruction of one hundred enlisted students of the line or the quartermaster corps. The duration of the course was four months.
The receiving pens into which animals were first unloaded and held until distributed into the proper corrals, were accessible by chutes running into them from the unloading plat- form. These pens (receiving pens) opened into a small runway through which the ani- mals were sent to the isolation corrals or to the hospital when found advisable. Two
corrals were used for isolation, four for con- valescents from the hospital, ten for issue and one corral was formerly used for brood mares, fourteen colts were foaled and later disposed of at auction bringing in good prices.
The first assignment of troops reached the Depot December 5, 1917. Before their ar- rival 41 men had enlisted through the efforts of the officers in charge of the Depot and ne- groes had been employed to carry on the out- side work. On October 6, 1917, second lieu- tenant Charles N. Wells was appointed Chief Veterinarian, and on December 5, 1917, was relieved of duty.
The Depot had a capacity for handling 5,000 animals, and during 1917-May, 1919 had received 15,897 animals and issued 10,104. The Depot was subdivided into 15 corrals, four being used for convalescents and one for isolation purposes separated from the other ten which were used for the remount section.
On September 29, 1917, the first shipment of animals numbering 170 was received. The maximum number was reached December 24, 1917. All told the number of animals han- dled were 17,285; issued, 10,256; sold, 3,275; destroyed, 93; died, 600.
From October 1, 1917, to April 8, 1919, inclusive, the following forage was consumed by the animals at the Depot: hay, 427,952 bales; oats, 84,815 bags; straw, 16,172 bales; bran, 5,574 bags; corn, 3,655 bags. An offi- cial report says:
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