General summary of the Militia of the State, as shown by the AdjutantGeneral's annual report, dated Dec. 31, 1844. The CAVALRY Consists of 4 Divisions, 8 Brigades, 27 Regiments, and 2 Squadrons. The ARTILLERY consists of 4 Divisions, 8 Brigades, 1 Brigade of Horse Artillery, 30 Regiments, IBattalion. The RIFLEMEN consist of 3 Divisions, 7 Brigades, 22 Regiments. The INFANTRY consists of 33 Divisions, 66 Brigades, 273 Regiments, and 9 Battalions. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. Silas Wright, Commander-in-Chief. Thomas Farrington, Adjutant-General. Henry Storms, New-York, Commissary-General. Robert H. Pruyn, Albany, Judge-Advocate-General. Spencer S. Benedict, New-York, Quarter-Master-General. James McNaughton, Albany, Surgeon-General. Day Otis Kellogg, Troy, Paymaster-General. David Hamilton, Wm. Horace Brown, and Thos. B. Myers, Aidsde-Camp. C. W. Bouck, Military Secretary. MAJOR-GENERALS.-Cavalry. 3d Division, Abraham G. Rosecrantz,.. Little Falls, Herkimer co. Nelson Randall, 4th ......... Buffalo. 66 Isaac A. Verplanck, 5th 6th 7th Marvin B. Converse, John K. Porter,... Peter H. Fonda,....... Peter Robison,.... Horace S. Bradley, Jay Cady,.... Munson J. Lockwood, Henry Shipherd,. David Barrett,.. Ransom E. Booth,.... William C. Little,. Philip H. Lasher,. Charles Gray,. James A. Herriman,. Solomon S. Hummel, George Wagernor,. Orrin Griffin,. James Hasen,. Enos D. Hopping, Daniel D. Webster,. Harmon Goetschius, Jacob L. Scofield, James Slingerland, Samuel A. Gifford, Richard A. Udell, Alfred D. Hustin,.. James W. Nye,.. David Becman, Jr.,.... George S. Nichols,. Vacant. William S. Fullerton, David Burt,... Robert Hagadorn,.... Vacant. ..... Daniel J. Huntley,. Abel Redway,.. Philander Hartshorn,. Charles J. Blackner, Richard L. Schieffelin,. Daniel Lee,. La Fargeville, Jefferson co. Waterford, Saratoga co. Fonda, Montgomery co. Minaville, Montgomery co. Sparta, Livingston co. Rochester. Buffalo. Fulton, Oswego co. West Greenfield, Sarato.co. Ellicottville, Cattaraugus co. Adams, Jefferson co. Hornellsville, Steuben co. Orangeville, Wyoming co. New-York. New-York. 60th Brigade, Calvin T. Chamberlain,... Cuba, Allegany co. John Groesbeck, Matthew Keeler,. George Dixey.. Jeremiah Meserole, 66th 63 Martin Miller,.... Albany. New-York. Commissary-General's Department. ARSENALS, ARMS, AND MUNITIONS OF WAR. The Commissary-General is appointed by the Senate and Assembly, in the same manner as the Secretary of State, and other chief officers of the civil Executive Department, and in like manner holds his office for three years, unless sooner removed by a concurrent resolution of those two bodies. His salary is $700 a year, payable, as in all other cases, quarterly; and his necessary disbursements in the discharge of his official duties, are also paid out of the treasury, but he receives no fees. He has the general charge and oversight of the arsenals and magazines of the State, which he is required to keep in good repair; and he must attend to the preservation and safe keeping, cleaning, and repairing of the ordnance, arms, and all the munitions of war belonging to the State, for which purpose he has at all times the control and disposal of them. He must sell out of the arsenals to privates in the militia, on their producing the certificates of their commandants, muskets, rifles, and other arms and accoutrements, proper to the branch of service with which they are respectively connected, at the prices paid for them by the State; he must dis. pose, on the best terms in his power, of all such arms, ammunition, and other military implements and property, as are deemed unfit for use, make report thereof to the Governor, and pay the proceeds into the Treasury; he must, with the approbation of the Governor, and on the certificate of the commanders of brigades, issue colors and instruments of music to bat. talions, provided the expense thereof does not exceed the amount of fines actually paid into the Treasury by such brigades; he must issue to the se veral artillery companies such powder and ball as are needed for practice; and he must make annual report to the Governor of all his doings, and of the amount and condition of the military property of the State, which reports are to be transmitted by the Governor to the Legislature. The following particulars are derived from the Commissary-General's annual report, dated January 20, 1845: The State Arsenals and Magazines are situated in the city of New-York; at Albany; at Onondaga Hollow, in Onondaga county; at Canandaigua, in Ontario county; at Batavia, in Genesee county; at Buffalo; at Watertown, in Jefferson county; at Russell, in St. Lawrence county; at Malone, in Franklin county; and at Elizabethtown, in Essex county; and each is under the immediate care and custody of a local agent, called a Keeper. These arsenals are now generally in pretty good repair, except the one in the city of New-York, which is so much dilapidated as to require re. building from the very foundation, and on a more comprehensive and ap. propriate plan. A law was passed by the Legislature, May 4, 1844, to authorize such rebuilding, and appropriating whatever moneys should be paid to the State by the United States for certain lands on Staten Island, the sites of Forts Richmond and Tompkins. The bargain, however, not having been completed, the new State Arsenal in the city has not been begun. The act of Congress of 1808, appropriates $200,000 yearly for arming the militia of the several States; and of that sum, the portion of this State is about $20,000, which has usually, in years past, been received in muskets and other small arms; but, under the present Commissary-General, principally in ordnance. The following is the list of what had been received on account of the quota due to this State for 1844: 1 six pounder gun carriage, stock trail pattern,......... 1 four do do do do 2 sets of implements and equipments, except tangent scales, at $35.63 per set,........ Expenses of bushing one vent, $3.00; expenses of fitting one set rim bases, $6.00,... Amount.... Equal to 49 5-10 muskets. The present price of the musket is $13. RECAPITULATION $281 00 281 00 71 26 9 00 $642 26 Of the Ordnance, Arms, Ammunition and Munitions of War, the property of the State of New-York, at the close of 1844. |