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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 277 him to the legislature in January 1868. It is dated December 31st, 1867. From this document it ap-pears that the militia of the Territory consisted of one Lieutenant- General, with a staff of eighteen of-ficers ; thirteen topographical engineers, six officers of the ordnance department, two Major- Generals, with a staff of fourteen officers. Nine Brigadier- Generals, with fifty officers in the staff, twenty-five lieutenant- colonels with eighty five officers in the regimental staff, 112 majors with 113 of bat-talion staff, 236 captains, 228 first lieutenants. 906 second lieutenants, 896 sergeants, 322 musicians, and 82 teamsters, making a total of 12,024. The cavalry consisted of 2,525. The artillery 179, and the infantry of 9,207, the remainder being the gen-eral officers and staff, and a topographical and ordnance department. The arms and equipment of this body were reported as several pieces of ar-tillery, 2,838 horses, 2,476 saddles, 4,926 revolvers, 252 swords, 6,960 rifles, 1,719 muskets and shotguns 25 bayonets, 431,375 rounds of ammunition, 77 trum-pets, 96 fifes and 107 drums. General Clawson in his report dated February 9th, 1869, to the Department at Washington, terse-ly tells the story of these military operations and supplies vouchers, showing the expense of the In-dian War during the three years to be $ 1,121,037.38, not including charges for vast amount of service in the home guard, which would have mater. iyUy in-creased the total. The report bears Governor Dur-kee's official endorsements and quotes from the re-ports and communications of Colonels Irish and Heath to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. |