Albert Tracy to John C. Frémont, June 25, 1862

Maj. Gen. JoHN C. FREMONT, Commanding Department :

GENERAL: In compliance with your verbal order of this date to furnish a statement of the number of additional aides-de-camp credited to your staff in orders from the War Department, and also the number generally employed at headquarters or elsewhere, under your immediate orders, I have the honor to submit the following:

The whole number of additional aides-de-camp announced in orders of the War Department as pertaining to your staff is ninety-two. Of this number fifty-six, appointed as a convenience to the service merely, and as I understand without your agency or recommendation, have reported neither in person nor by letter. They performed duty, if at all, in the suites of other commanders. A small number, appointed as above, and directed to report at your headquarters, have done so. It is to be regretted that one or two of these have since proved of a character so unworthy as to induce your request for their dismissal from the service.

Of the remaining number asked for by yourself a proportion have, on application, been assigned to different general officers of the com-

‘mand, leaving an average of about twenty-five on duty at your headquarters or elsewhere under your immediate orders. The withdrawal of several officers of the general staff, on your assuming command of department has necessitated the assignment of a number of your personal staff as substitutes on general duties.

Officers of headquarters staff are employed as follows: Col. Anselm Albert, chief of staff; Col. Albert Tracy (captain, Tenth Regulars), acting assistant adjutant-general; Col. John T. Fiala, chief of topographical engineers, department headquarters; Col. W. F. Raynolds (captain, U. 8. Regular Service), chief of topographical engineers in the field ; of artillery; Maj. R. M. Corwine, judge advocate (absent on detached service during campaign); Col. R. N. Hudson, provost-marshal-general in the field (on leave from May 23); Capt. John C. Hopper, chief of scouts and spies; Capts. R. W. Raymond and T. J. Weed, mustering officers; Capt. G. Ward Nichols, in charge of postal service; Capt. Cyrus Hamlin, acting commissary of subsistence; Lieut. Col. James W. Savage, Majrs. Adolf C. Warberg and Burr Porter, and Captains Nordendorf and Dunka, assistants to chief of staff; Lieut. Col. Philip Figyelmesy and Maj. Leonidas Haskell, assistants of chief of cavalry ;

Gustave P. Cluseret, aide-de-camp, though present, is not included as a staff officer at headquarters, he being in command of light brigade.

Respectfully submitted.