Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Army Headquarters. [ARTICLE]

Army Headquarters.

“The headquarters of fihe army,” said an army officer, “are where Gen. Miles is located or, at least, where he keeps his headquarters’ flag. Should be take his flag up in a balloon the headquarters would be up in the air. He seldom takes his flag with him when he leaves the city, but should he do so headquarters would be exactly where the flag is, whether he was in the cars or at a hotel. The law has never design nated an official headquarters. When Gen. Sherman moved his residence from this city some years ago to St. Louis the headquarters flag went with him, and the war department found it was no longer headquarters. Neither was there any way in which the department could find where headquarters were except by telegraphing for the whereabouts of Gen. Sherman and his Hag.”— Star.