Generals In Chief Of The United States Army
Journal fives the lint oí oihoors who have beid 1 he positioa oí Gener;tl-inOlif oí tho Arrny oí tho Uuited Siatea as l'ollows : Brevet liiiq-. Gen. Joti;ih Harrnar, frorn Sent. 1789", lo Mareh 179J. Muj. Gen. Artliur, St Clair, frora March, 1791 to Match 1792. Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne, f rom Murcii, 1792, to Dec. 1796. Brig. Gen. James Wilkinsoa, írom Deo. 179G, to July 1798 Lieut. Geü. George Washington, from July. 1798, to Dec. 1799 Mj. Gen. James Wilkinson, (again) frorn June, 1800, to Jan. 1812. Maj. Gen. Henrv Daarborn, from Jan. 1812', to June,'l815. Maj Gen. Jacob Brown, from June, 1815, to Feb. 1828. Maj. Gen. Alesander Macomb, from May, 1828, to June, 1841. Brevet Lieut. Gen. Winfield Soott, frora June, 1841, to Nov, 1, 1SG1. Mnj. Gen. George B. McClollan, fiom Nov. 1, 1861, to July 23, 18G2. Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, írom July 23, 1862, to March 12, 1864. Lieut. Gen U. 8. Grant, from March 12th 1864. iC3L"'At the beginning of the vnr; lbo government took tho hieles from (ioad army horsen, and bunied their bodios at Uall's Crcss RohcIs, and ol.su whore, at a coat of $350,000 a year. - Now it reoeives from a firrn at Alexandria, Va., $50,000 per annum for perinÍ8HÍ(in to take tbe dead aoimak off ts liijiidf.
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