Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — PRESENT STRENGTH OF ARMY. [ARTICLE]

PRESENT STRENGTH OF ARMY.

Total of 08,790 Is Shown by Adjufant General Corbin. The annual report of Adjutant General Corbin to the Secretary of War for the year ending. June 30, 1900, is a complete statistical record of the army of the United States. It shows that the regular army consists of 2,535 officers lyad 63,861 enlisted men, and the volunteer army of 1,548 officers ahd 31.039 enlisted men, a grand total of 98,790, not including the hospital corps, which is not counted as a part of the effective strength of the army. The regular anil volunteer army at present is- distributed as follows: United States, 998 officers, of whom 76 are volunteer officers, and 18,898 enlisted men, all regulars; Alaska, 41 officers, 1,088 enlisted men; Porto Rico, 98 officers, 2,406 enlisted men; Guba, 260 officers, 5,468 enlisted men; Philippine Islands, 2,367 officers, 69,161 enlisted men; Hawaiian Islands, 6 officers, 219 enlisted men; China, 80 officers, 2.000 men. There are 879 volunteers enlisted men in Porto Rico, aud 30,200 in the Philippines. These are the only places where volunteer enlisted men are serving. Some staff officers are serving in nearly all o* tin* places named 1 . The deaths reported in the army, both regular and volunteer, by the same division are: United States, 14 officers, 264 nibn; Alaska, 3 .men; Cuba, 7 officers, 146 men; Porto Rico, 36 men: Hawaii, 1 officer and 4 men; Philippine Islands, 49 officers, 1,393 men; at sea, 3 officers, 84 men. Total, 74 officers and 1,930 men. In seven instances, owing to an error, officers dying have been counted twice, once as regulars and then again as volunteers, the actual total being 67 officers dead. During tbe year there were discharged from the service 22,592 men; deserted, 3,993. The casualties in the Chinese campaign between July 1 and Oct. 1 were 9 officers and 200 enlisted men. In the statistics given is a table showing the chronological list of actions in the Philippine Islands from Fe'b. 4, 1899, to .Tune 30, 1900, together with the losses in killed and wounded. The totals show 3o officers and 470 men killed, and 14T officers iind 2,076 men wounded.