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Officers.
Men.
Amount.
Field and staff
10
8
$827 92
Company A
3
81
1,414 98
Company B
3
80
1,385 26
Company C.
3
81
989 60
Company D
3
81
1,363 36
. Company E
3
81
1,302 84
Company F
3
81
1,145 52
Company G
3
81
1,218 44
Company H
3
81
1,008 85
Company I
3
81
1.417 10
Company K
3
1,433 40
Company 1.
3
81
1,252 75
Company M
3
81
1,344 64
Total
46
979
$16,103 66
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SCHEDULE A-(Continued). Seventy-first Regiment.
ORGANIZATION.
Officers.
Men.
Amount.
Field and staff
10
3
$542 61
Company A
3
73
612 12
Company B
3
80
709 54
Company C
3
76
676 36
Company D
3
75
669 35
Company E
3
75
635 93
Company F
3
79
672 48
Company G
3
74
629 84
Company H
3
78
1,014 44
Company I
3
81
679 25
Company K
3
72
616 63
Company L,
3
72
618 50
Company M
3
70
594 02
Total.
46
908
$8,671 10
Cavalry.
ORGANIZATION.
Officers.
Men.
Amount.
Troop A
3
78
$1,228 13
Troop C.
75
1,330 14
Total
$2,558 27
SCHEDULE B. Pay of general and staff officers. and other officers and enlisted men, detailed in connection with volunteer camps.
ORGANIZATION.
Officers.
Men.
Amount.
Headquarters national guard, Major-General Roe and staff
10
$2,627 10
First brigade, Brigadier-General Butt and staff .
9
1.614 44
Second brigade, Brigadier-General MeLeer and staff.
6
2,033 60
Fourth brigade, Brigadier-General Doyle and staff
10
1
1,826 39
Fifth brigade. Brigadier-General Smith and staff
7
2
991 19
Officers, squadron
2
192 17
Officers, general staff.
4
5,753 68
Detail, first battery
1
56
340 50
Detail, sccond battery
1
44 59
Detail, par department
18
4,147 75
Total
50
85
$19,571 41
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SCHEDULE C. Non-Volunteers.
ORGANIZATION.
Rejected.
Declined.
Officers.
Men.
Amount.
First regiment
138
31
2
167
$3,903 00
Second regiment
114
11
3
122
2,133 50
Third regiment
79
13
1
91
1,275 28
Eiguth regiment
122
62
1
183
2,852 25
Ninth regiment
184
97
7
274
5,405 17
Twelfth regiment
152
55
5
202
3,118 00
Thirteenth regiment
147
15
133
1,294 86
Fourteenth regiment
93
107
205
2,581 50
Twenty-second regiment.
96
83
5
174
3,323 47
Forty-seventh regiment.
185
80
1
264
4,736 25
Sixty- fifth regiment
71
5
2
74
1,606 58
Sixty-ninth regiment
91
24
5
113
2,636 31
Seventy-first regiment
21
44
65
638 25
Troop A
1
1
25 50
Troop C.
4
4
93 25
Total
1,359
759
46
2,072
$35,625 17
SCHEDULE D. Expense of Pay Department.
Amount.
Civilian clerks
$1,041 50
Postage
78 42
Transportation
720 83
Office hire
227 50
Printing and stationery
170 69
Telegrams and telephone (long distance only)
79 41
Light
37 50
Supplies.
119 30
Premium on bond.
625 00
$3,100 15
REPORT OF COLONEL WM. CARY SANGER, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF ARTILLERY ON DUTIES PERFORMED IN PAY DEPARTMENT.
HEADQUARTERS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRD REGIMENT, N. Y. V. I. SECOND BRIGADE, SECOND ARMY CORPS,
CAMP WETHERILL, S. C., November 23, 1898.
Brigadier-General WARREN M. HEALEY, Paymaster-General, S.N.Y., 1654 Broadway, New York City.
Sir :- I have the honor to submit the following report of my work as acting assistant in your department:
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On the 14th day of June I received a telegram, of which the following is a copy: "By direction of the commander-in-chief you will report at headquarters, in Albany, to-morrow morning on arrival of the 'Empire State' from New York. Acknowledge receipt."
" TILLINGHAST, " Adjt-Gen'l."
I at once started for Albany, and reported as directed in Albany at the designated time. There I was notified by the Governor and by you of my detail to your department, and received from you both instructions as to the work I was to do.
On the morning of June 16th, I reported to you in person at your office in New York city and received your final instructions, after which I executed a bond for $40,000. Subsequently to this I received from you a check for $35,000.
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In compliance with instructions received at Albany I took the 4.30 train that afternoon, June 16th, for Washington. The fol- lowing morning I visited Camp Alger, where I reported to General Graham, and visited the camps of the third and sixty-fifth New York volunteer infantry, and troops A and C, New York volun- teer cavalry. I was invited by the cavalry officers to make my headquarters with them when I might be in camp. I returned to Washington that day and deposited the $35,000 at the Riggs National Bank. The officers of that bank expressed their desire to do everything possible to facilitate the work of the New York state-authorities; and they subsequently extended to me every possible courtesy and facility for the performance of my work.
On the 19th day of June the pay rolls for the cavalry arrived. Troop A was away on a practice march; troop C was paid at once: in compliance with the wishes of the Governor and yourself the payments were made in checks, which I was prepared to cash for all who wished money. In addition to this, an arrangement was made with the Riggs bank for the payment of all my checks which might be presented by officers of any of the New York · commands.
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On the 22d day of June the pay rolls for the third regiment arrived by registered mail at the Riggs bank at 3 o'clock. I arrived with them at Camp Alger at 4.30 in the afternoon. Troop A, having returned from its practice march, was at once paid. I then went to the third regiment and found that they had just received orders to start at 6 o'clock the next morning on a practice march, to be gone three days. As this would keep them out of camp until Saturday, it seemed to be important that they should be paid at once; and with the valuable assistance of Sergeant-Major Brayton and Private Wardlaw all the checks were made out and signed and compared with the pay rolls that night; this was done by working uninterruptedly until after 4 o'clock in the morning. Reveille was sounded at 4.30, and the checks for the different companies were handed to the captains. They were notified that the checks would be cashed by any officer in Washington, or that if it were desired I would attend to the matter on their return.
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On the afternoon of the 23d day of June the pay rolls for the sixty-fifth regiment arrived and before the end of the following day they had been paid. In the payment of this regiment I was greatly assisted by the valuable services of Captain Christey. I spent Saturday in camp adjusting some disputed points in con- nection with the pay roll of the sixty-fifth regiment, and I saw the officers of the third after their return. Finding that there was no necessity for my further presence in camp, and that the company officers would have all checks that were not sent home cashed, I left the camp Sunday morning, returning to New York city that day. Monday I reported in New York city, and Tuesday I reported at headquarters in Albany.
Knowing how desirous the Governor and you both were that the `payment of the troops should be made as promptly as possible, I beg to call your attention to the fact that in every instance when the troops were in camp they were paid the day on which the pay rolls were received, or, when the pay rolls arrived late in the afternoon, they were paid before the end of the
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following day. The payment of each organization was thus made within the twenty-four hours following the receipt of the pay, rolls. In addition to paying the men as speedily as possible, every effort was made not only to give the men checks or money, as they preferred, but also to aid the commanding officers in arrang- ing for the men to send home such portion of their pay as they wished. Colonel Welch took especial care in arranging for this.
In this work it has been my privilege to see the carefulness with which the work of the pay department of the state is carried on. Respectfully, WM. CARY SANGER, Lt .- Col. 203d Regiment, N. Y. V. I., late Acting Paymaster, S. N. Y.
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May 21st.
General H. C. Corbin, adjutant-general, U. S. army, inquired by telegraph of the adjutant-general of the state: "Will the state of New York authorize Colonel Griffin to use Peekskill camp without charge for first volunteer engineers under proper regula- tion for care of state property ? "
To this the adjutant-general of the state replied: "Authority will be given Colonel Griffin to use camp at Peekskill for puropse named, under condition of your telegram."
June 15th.
The following letter, dated New York city, June 14th and ad- dressed to the adjutant-general of the state, was received this day, from Colonel Eugene Griffin, first regiment, United States volunteer engineers:
" GENERAL :- I have the honor to request that I be authorized to occupy the Peekskill camp with the first regiment, United States volunteer engineers, on Monday morning, June 20th, under such regulations as you may prescribe for the care of the state property.
" I would further request that my regiment be permitted to use the kitchen, mess hall, bath house, water supply and such tents as may be available, under same conditions."
In reply to this letter the adjutant-general of the state addressed the following to Colonel Griffin:
"SIR :- I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of the 14th instant, and to say by direction of the adjutant-general, that the commander-in-chief grants permission for the use of Camp Townsend, at Peekskill, for your regiment. He will give instructions so that water will be furnished, but before granting
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your request for the use of the mess hall, would ask if you have arranged with Duncan & Company to cater for your men. This , is asked because this firm is the owner of part of the kitchen utensils, and should be consulted before permission is granted. Reply by telegram had better be made.
" We have no tents we can furnish. It is understood that all expense incurred and damage done, if any, is chargeable to the United States government."
Brigadier-General William Barclay Parsons, chief of engineers, was detailed to take charge, under chief of ordnance, of the grounds, buildings and other property at Camp Townsend, while the first regiment of the United States volunteer engineers was located there.
June 16th.
The following telegram was sent to the chief of ordnance of the state:
" The Governor has granted the use of the grounds, buildings, water, etc., at Camp Townsend to the first United States volunteer engineers from the 20th; United States to be responsible for all damage. General Parsons in charge of property under your orders. Have everything in order to turn over to Colonel Griffin on the 20th."
June 17th.
And the following:
"Authority has been given to Colonel Griffin, first engineers, to use water, bath houses, sinks, mess hall, and all pertaining thereto. He purposes to contract with Duncan for subsistence. Tentage is not to be furnished except for General Parsons. For more information apply to these headquarters, and also consult Colonel Griffin, 335 Broadway, New York city."
The following letter, dated June 16th, was received from Colonel Eugene Griffin, first regiment, United States volunteer engineers:
" GENERAL :- I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 15th, granting permission for the use of Camp Townsend, near Peekskill, N. Y., with the understanding that all
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expense incurred, or damage done, if any, is chargeable to the United States government.
" In reference to the use of the mess hall, I have just wired you as follows, which telegram is now confirmed:
"' With full authority from War Department have arranged with Duncan & Company to cater for men at Camp Townsend. Contract will be made to-morrow on return of regimental quarter- master from Washington.' "
To which the adjutant-general of the state replied as follows:
" In reference to my letter of yesterday's date (15th) regarding the use of the state grounds and buildings at Peekskill, by your regiment, the Governor desires a written communication from you to the effect that all expenses incurred by the state and damage done to the buildings and grounds be made good by the United States, and that said communication be approved by the adjutant- general of the United States army."
June 1Sth.
The following letter was this day sent to the chief of ordnance of the state:
"I am directed by the Governor to inform you that he has granted the use of the grounds and buildings, water, etc., at Camp Townsend to the War Department, for the first regiment, engineers, United States volunteers, commencing on the 20th instant, and that Brigadier-General Parsons, chief of engineers, S. N. Y., has been placed in charge of the grounds and buildings under your supervision.
" It is understood that the United States will be responsible for all damage done to state property. I have, therefore, the honor to request that you will have everything in proper shape to be turned over to Colonel Eugene Griffin, first regiment, engineers, United States volunteers, on the 20th instant."
Colonel Griffin telegraphed June 17th to the adjutant-general of the state, telegram not received until the 18th, as follows:
" Earnestly request I be allowed to have six of the large double tents for so-called ' luxury row ', Camp Townsend."
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And the following telegram was sent in reply:
" Permission is granted you to use six of the large double tents for so-called 'luxury row,' Camp Townsend, under same pro- visions and conditions as other state property."
June 20th.
The following was received from Colonel Griffin, first regiment, United States volunteer engineers:
" Request General Flagler be authorized to leave pump engineer in camp at expense United States. I will be responsible."
In reply to which the chief of ordnance received instruction as requested.
The same day Brigadier-General William Barclay Parsons, chief of engineers of the state, telegraphed as follows:
" Please instruct ordnance department to loan United States volunteers the seventy tents now at Camp Townsend. I leave for Peekskill immediately."
And Colonel Griffin of the first United States engineers wrote to Adjutant-General Tillinghast:
" General :- I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of yours of June 17th, and thank you most heartily for your very kind offer to afford every possible facility to us at this time.
" I have telegraphed you to-day asking for the seventy wall tents which Colonel Story informs me he has at Camp Townsend. As our tents have not arrived, it is very important that we should have these, and in any event they will be of great use to us at the camp as our supply at best will be very small. The govern- ment will only furnish us with 'A' tents, and on the basis of four men to a tent, and no special allowance is made for the non- commissioned officers or for the staff.
" Thanking you again for your kindness in everything relating to the use of Camp Townsend, I am,
"Very respectfully."
To General Parsons' telegram the following reply was sent by telegraph:
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" The Governor grants permission for you to use the seventy wall tents, under conditions named, until your tentage arrives. This will authorize assistant chief of ordnance, S. N. Y., to issue."
June 28th.
The adjutant-general of the army addressed the following letter dated June 27th, received this day, to the Governor, who referred it to the office of the adjutant-general:
"I am advised by Colonel Eugene Griffin, first United States volunteer engineers, who is organizing a regiment for the volun- teer brigade, that you have kindly consented to the use of the state camp at Peekskill, N. Y., as a rendezvous for that regiment of the engineer brigade, and that, as a slight consideration there- for, he has promised that all expenses incurred by the state in connection with said rendezvous and damage done to the build- ings and grounds shall be made good by the United States.
"I desire, in behalf of the Secretary of War, to confirm this agreement, and at the same time to express the thanks of the department for the use of the grounds and premises."
August 5th.
The first regiment, United States volunteer engineers, left Camp Townsend, and
August Sth
Brigadier-General William Barclay Parsons, chief of engineers, rendered the following report, as to his duties at the camp:
" Under special orders, No. 113, dated June 15, 1898, section 5, I, as chief of engineers, was placed in charge of the state camp- ing grounds and buildings at Camp Townsend, Peekskill, N. Y., subject to the supervision of the chief of ordnance.
"I now beg leave to report that, under the authority of the above mentioned orders, I took charge of the camp on June 20th, when the first detachment of the first United States volunteer engineers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hodges, went to Peekskill. At 4 p. m., on August 5th, the full regiment, under command of Colonel Eugene Griffin, United States volunteers.
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marched out of camp en-route to Porto Rico, and the camp was turned back to me by the regimental quartermaster, he having accounted satisfactorily for all the property of the state entrusted to his care. I thereupon turned over the property to Colonel J. G. Story, assistant chief of ordnance, S. N. Y., and received from him a receipt for all the property entrusted to me.
" Before finally leaving the camp, all tents had been struck, rolled up and turned in, tent floors piled and the whole grounds neatly policed-in fact, the grounds were turned back to the state, if anything, in better condition than when they were received by the regiment.
" Under the orders appointing me, I acted under the supervision of the chief of ordnance. I have therefore made to him a report in full.
" Between the dates above mentioned, namely, June 20th, and August 5th, a complete regiment was organized, mustered in. clothed and equipped in full, and converted from raw recruits into a fairly-well disciplined body of troops."
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UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SIGNAL CORPS.
May 25th.
Brigadier-General Greely, chief signal officer, U. S. army, tele- graphed to the adjutant-general of the state as follows:
" Major E. B. Ives has been appointed captain, volunteer signal corps, and as soon as confirmed will consult with you with refer- ence to enlistment of two signal companies from New York. There will be no state quota, but I have been desirous of enlist- ing New York men together under New York officers as far as possible."
May 27th.
The adjutant-general of the state telegraphed to General Greely:
" I shall be glad to hear from you and will co-operate in every way I can."
June 24th.
First Lieutenant Henry G. Opdyke, U. S. volunteer signal corps, ~ reported at this office under orders to recruit for his corps, and the commanding officer of the third signal corps was ordered to place such quarters in the armory of his corps as Lieutenant Opdyke may deem necessary for this purpose at the latter's dis- posal.
June 28th.
Captain Edward B. Ives, U. S. volunteer signal corps, reported at these headquarters and presented the following communica- tion from himself, addressed to the adjutant-general of the state:
"Sir :- In regard to the acquirement by the United States of certain signal property belonging to the state of New York, I have the honor to inform you that I am authorized by the chief signal officer of the army to say that, upon the purchase of iden- tical articles by the state, the bill for the same will be promptly
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paid upon presentation to the chief signal officer, U. S. A., at Washington, D. C.
"The bills, when presented, must be accompanied, as vouchers, by one of the copies of the receipts given by the United States officer to whom the property has been delivered, and must be certified to as correct and just by the commissioned purchasing officer of the state."
In accordance with this request the following orders were issued:
" Special orders, No. 122-III. Commanding officers of signal ·corps will turn over to Captain Edward B. Ives, U. S. volunteer signal corps, or such other officer as may be designated by the chief signal officer of the U. S. army, such signal implements as he will call for or select, and they will furnish him with invoices of the articles they turned over in duplicate, and receive from him receipts in quadruplicate, three of which they will forward to these headquarters, using the remaining one to account for the property on their respective property returns.
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" This property is permitted to be taken by the United States, with the express understanding that the chief signal officer of the army will reimburse the state the cost of replacing the articles taken under this order, when bills therefor will be presented to him by the state."
The property of the state thus transferred to the United States signal corps consisted of :
Signal kits, complete, with canteens and haversacks 16
Heliographs and tripods 18
Telescopes and tripods. 15
Telegraph instruments, Bunnell keys and sounders in boxes
16
Hand, levels
8
Pedometers 12
Box compasses
4
Prismatic compasses
8
Ancroid barometers 2
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Steel taps, fifty feet each.
4
Battery cells, gravity. 24
Cell boxes
6
Insulated wire, cable, miles
, 2240
5280
Iron reels
4
Wooden reels
1
Telephone reels of wire.
4
Message pouches
96
Odometers
4
Hatchets in leather sheaths
8
Packing boxes
2
Felling axes
4
Sextants
1
Field glasses
16
Half-inch Manila rope, feet
640
As for the members of the four signal corps of the national guard who entered the United States service as volunteers, atten- tion is invited to the following:
REPORT OF MAJOR EDWARD B. IVES, CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER OF THE STATE.
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To the Adjutant-General, S. N. Y., Albany, N. Y.
Sir :- I have the honor to submit the following report concern- ing the signal corps of the state.
It furnished the following officers and enlisted men to the vol- unteer army of the United States, formed for war against Spain.
The first signal corps furnished as follows:
Members.
Wm. T. Davenport, lieutenant; United States volunteer signal corps.
Robert A. Rodman, lieutenant, United States volunteer signal corps.
Eugene V. Kean, sergeant, United States volunteer signal corps. Josiah D. Wooten, United States volunteer signal corps.
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David A. Travis, United States volunteer signal corps.
Chas. A. Newell, United States volunteer signal corps. Geo. Jessup, twenty-second New York volunteer infantry. Horace A. Patterson, first New Jersey volunteer infantry.
Ex-Members.
Millard J. P. Davis, eighth New York volunteer infantry.
James W. Gibbins, seventy-first New York volunteer infantry. S. N. Butler, first lieutenant, United States volunteer signal corps.
Henry G. Opdyke, second lieutenant, United States volunteer signal corps.
Uldrich Palmedo, fourteenth New York volunteer infantry.
Wm. P. Grady, troop C, volunteer cavalry.
. James C. Foster, first volunteer engineers.
David I. Thompson, twenty-second New York volunteer infantry.
The second signal corps furnished as follows:
Members.
Captain Frederick T. Leigh, captain United States volunteer signal corps.
First sergeant H. C. Baldwin, second lieutenant, United States volunteer signal corps.
Sergeant Wm. Jarvie, first lieutenant, United States volunteer signal corps.
Corporal Elliot Bigelow, troop C, New York volunteer cavalry. Corporal Chas. Fowler, United States volunteer signal corps.
Private R. M. Byers, United States volunteer signal corps.
Private C. W. Byers, United States volunteer signal corps.
Private Reginald W. Earle, United States volunteer signal corps.
Private Wm. J. Calnan, United States volunteer signal corps. Private Edwin H. Ensell, United States volunteer signal corps. Private John P. Huntling, United States volunteer signal corps. Private Frederick L. Hardenbrook, " Astor Battery."
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Private Majestre Leggett, United States volunteer signal corps. Private Austin Norris, United States volunteer signal corps. Private E. C. Ward, Jr., United States volunteer signal corps.
Private Leonard R. Winters, United States volunteer signal. corps.
As far as can be learned the following ex-members entered the United States service :
· Robt. B. Herbert, Jr., United States volunteer signal corps.
Seymour B. Brinker, first regiment United States volunteer engineers.
The third signal corps furnished as follows:
Members.
Corporal Wm. L. Martin, first New York volunteer infantry.
Corporal William D. Arnold, two hundred and first New York volunteer infantry (commissioned).
The fourth signal corps furnished the following:
Members.
Frank Thebauld, two hundred and second New York volunteer infantry.
Leonard S. Spire, two hundred and second New York volunteer infantry.
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