The Laramie Republican

IN COMMAND
OF FIRST BRIGADE

COLONEL WILLIAMS OF TWENTY-
FIRST INFANTRY AT HEAD
OF THE MANEUVERS.

Officer Who Stopped Here With His Regiment Honored By Brigadier General Morton--Text of the First General Order Issued at the Maneuver Camp Crawford.

Camp Emmet Crawford, Near Dale Creek, Wyo., Aug. 4.--Camp Emmet Crawford has been formally established by Brigadier General Charles Morton, commanding the Department of the Missouri, who has arrived on the ground with his staff, consisting largely of the department staff of the Department of the Missouri, from Omaha. The camp is well located and will continue for one month.

First General Order.

General order No. 1, following, gives the details of the camp and the personnel of the command:

1. For the purpose of instruction this command will constitute a provisional division of two brigades, comprising all troops, regular and militia which have reported or may report at any time for duty at this encampment.

Colonel Williams at Head.

2. The provisional infantry brigade will be composed of the Twenty-first infantry, the Fifteenth infantry, the Third battalion, Nineteenth infantry, and the three organized militia regiments from Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and will be commanded by Colonel Charles A. Williams, Twenty-first infantry. The provisional cavalry brigade will be composed of the Fourth and Eighth cavalry, and will be commanded by Colonel H. P. Kingsbury, Eighth cavalry. The field artillery (headquarters and one battalion, Second field artillery, and the Colorado and Utah batteries) will constitute the division artillery, commanded by Colonel S. W. Taylor, Second field artillery.

General Assumes Command

3. In compliance with general orders No. 84, current series, war department, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the provisional division and camp.

4. The following staff is announced:

Personal--First Lieutenant Arvin L. Hunsaker, Ninth cavalry, aide-de-camp; Second Lieutenant Troup Miller, Seventh cavalry, aide-de-camp.

Division Officers.

Division--Lieutenant Colonel William P. Evans, general staff, chief of staff; Major W. T. May, Fifteenth infantry, adjutant general; Major J. G. Galbraith, inspector general, inspector general and judge advocate; Major D. McCarthy, quartermaster, chief quartermaster; Second Lieutenant Otto L. Brunzell, battalion quartermaster and commissary, Eleventh infantry, assistant to chief quartermaster and depot quartermaster; Captain Cecil Stewart, commissary, chief commissary; Lieutenant Colonel Aaron H. Appel, medical corps, chief surgeon; Major William E. Purviance, medical corps, medical inspector; Captain William F. Clark, paymaster, chief paymaster; First Lieutenant Mark L. Ireland, ordnance department, chief ordnance officer; Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Glassford, signal corps, chief signal officer; Captain Paul S. Bond, corps of engineers, chief engineer officer.

CHARLES MORTON
Brigadier General, United States Army, Commanding.