BAGGAGE, MILITARY. The impedimenta of an army, including all articles of stores neces sary, or pertaining to, a body of men moving from one point to another. Ammunition and food supplies, while coining under this general heading, take precedence of all other baggage, on account of their imperative necessity to the ex istence of troops in the field. In all armies, strict rules are enforced, regulating the amount and description of baggage that may he carried for officers and soldiers at home and abroad, both in time of peace and during war. In the field, though a soldier in the ranks carries his whole kit, yet a certain proportion of wagons are allotted to his command for the heavier baggage —tents. cooking utensils, ammunition, etc. The question of baggage is one of the most difficult problems a commander in the field has to deal with. In the United States the transportation of baggage is covered by See. 1242, United States Army Regulations, which provides that the bag gage to be transported at public expense, includ ing mess-chests and personal baggage, upon change of station, shall not exceed the following weights: nia, celebrated by Goethe, and the Villa Valg,nar nera, which has one of the most beautiful pros pects in Sicily. Population, in 1881 (commune),
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For officers and others in the above list, when embarking under orders for extended service over the sea and for duty in Alaska, and upon change of station in Alaska, and in places beyond the Emits of the States composing the Union, as well as upon return to said States, the allowance of baggage to be transported by the Quarter master's Department from initial point to point of embarkation, and from port of destination to garrison station, will be three times the allow ance prescribed above for change of station.