US Army: Stimson Plan for Reorganization, 1913
v.1.0 October 2, 2002

Ravi Rikhye

Source:
www.army.mil/cmh.pg/books/Lineage/M-F/chapter2.htm#b2

At this time, the US Army had no permanently embodied division or brigade headquarters. These were constituted as needed for operations and then disbanded. The US Army lacked standardized divisions or a uniform set of regulations and TOEs. The Stimson Plan was intended to rectify some of these shortcomings, with an army of 4 regular and 12 National Guard divisions. Such was the independence of the states that the Federal government could not compel the states to reorganize their militia, only request, though one by one they did fall into line.

Regular Army Divisions

1^st Division Eastern Department

2^nd Division Central Department

3^rd Division Western Department

Cavalry Division Southern Department

Northern Atlantic District, Coast Artillery

Southern Atlantic District, Coast Artillery

Pacific District, Coast Artillery

1^st Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division

2^nd Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division

3^rd Cavalry Brigade [independent]

4^th Cavalry Brigade [formed as needed from two independent regiments in Eastern District]

1^st Hawaiian Brigade [formed from 3 infantry regiments in Hawaii.

National Guard Divisions

Division	District
5th	New England states
6th	New York
7th	Pennsylvania
8th	Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, DC, Virginia, West Virginia
9th	North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia
10th	Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky
11th	Michigan, Ohio
12th	Illinois, Indiana
13th	Wisconsin, Michigan, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa
14th	Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming
15th	Arkansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Okalahoma, Louisiana
16th	California, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Washington

 

Infantry divisions were set at 22,646 men plus 19 civilians, and cavalry divisions were set at 10, 161 each.

 [To be continued]