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Virginia Free Press
Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Lieutenant General Grant has returned to headquarters to implement the army reduction plan to a peacetime standard of about 100,000 troops, including discharging Southern troops and cutting the Quartermaster General's Department. The Secretary of War seeks bureau views on personnel arrangements.
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Lieutenant General Grant has returned to this city, his headquarters, and it is understood that he is now prepared to carry out the plan, already agreed upon, for the reduction of the army to a standard required only for the ordinary condition of the country in times of tranquility at home and peace abroad. It is to be presumed that a large reduction will take place in the Quartermaster General's Department, which is one of the most expensive branches of the military service. But, of course, this reduction must be preceded by the discharge of troops still retained in the South.
The number of troops to be retained for a permanent peace establishment is not yet fixed by law, and will of course be left for the present to the discretion of the Executive. It has been supposed, however, that the number could not be wisely diminished below one hundred thousand.—National Intelligencer.
The Secretary of War, we understand, has already sent a Circular to the different Bureaus of his Department, asking their views as to the arrangement of a personnel for each, upon the basis of an army of 100,000 troops.
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reduction of the army to approximately 100,000 troops, discharge of troops in the south, and cuts in the quartermaster general's department.
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Lieutenant General Grant has returned to headquarters to execute the agreed plan for reducing the army to a peacetime standard. This involves discharging troops retained in the South before reducing expensive branches like the Quartermaster General's Department. The permanent establishment size is not fixed by law but left to executive discretion, presumed not below 100,000. The Secretary of War has circulated bureaus for views on personnel based on 100,000 troops.