A Treatise on American Military Laws, and the Practice of Courts Martial
by John Paul Jones O'Brien (9780217313056)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Necessary concomitants to line.?Exclusive control of Congress.?Our Staff and its relations to line of Army.?Staff Corps in French Army, and in American Army.?General relations of Staff Corps to each other and necessary connexion. Congress having formed an army proper, that is, a body of men whose essential duty is to fight the enemy by land, has next to provide for the support, andc., of that army. The line of the army must be paid, fed and clothed; barracks must be built and tents supplied; tools and other articles, necessary for its operations, and horses for the use of the mounted men must be furnished?wagons, teams, and other means of transportation, must be provided for its movements?in fact, all materials and labour, for its efficiency, must be ready when required; arms must be made or bought, and preserved in store. The sick and wounded must be attended to. Besides these duties, which refer exclusively to the physical efficiency of the line, there are other matters which it would be unwise to neglect. Fortifications, both field and permanent, must be constructed, and maps and surveys made. In order that the civil and military powers may always be able to know accurately the state of the army, it is necessary that certain military papers as enlistments, discharges, deaths, andc., should be made out, recorded and carefully preserved. Finally, to ensure the performance of the above and of other duties, connected with the army, it is important that those called on to perform these various duties, should be liable to a rigid examination and inspection of their official conduct. None of these duties, which are called staff duties, are those of military command. They are, therefore, exclusively within the powers of Congress, to regulate and determine. Congr...

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