Annual Reports of the War Department, Том 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1871 |
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1st Lt 2d Lt acres Adjutant amount anemometer assistant quartermaster barometer barometer above sea-level Barracks BENEFIT OF COMMERCE board of trade Brevet Brigadier bulletins cadets Camp Capt Captain Cavalry cemetery Cemetery.-Situated Chicago chief quartermaster Chief Signal Officer circuit City command commenced companies DIVISION OF TELEGRAMS duty Elevation of barometer ending June 30 enlisted established by Sergeant Fort Buford Fort Leavenworth Fourth Artillery furnished garrison Grand Haven headquarters inclosed Indians Infantry instruction Jeffersonville July June 30 Key West Lake Latitude of station Lieutenant Colonel Longitude of station ment meteorological miles Military Division Missouri Nashville North Carolina observer observer-sergeants ordered Orleans Pacific papers Punta Rassa Quartermaster's Department Railroad rain-gauge received regiment report will consist River Schooner Secretary of War sending reports South station will take storms supplied TELEGRAMS AND REPORTS telegraphic Texas thermometer Total troops United States Army velocity War Department Washington weather wind York
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