The organization of twelve new divisions was announced by General March, Chief of Staff, in statements made on July 24th and July 31st. These divisions were numerically designated from 9 to 20, and organized at Camps Devens, Meade, Sheridan, Custer, Funston, Lewis, Logan, Kearny, Beauregard, Travis, Dodge, and Sevier. Each division had two infantry regiments of the regular army as nucleus, the other elements being made up of drafted men. The new divisions moved into the designated camps as the divisions already trained there moved out. The composition of an American division is as follows: Two brigades of infantry, each consisting of two regiments of infantry and one machine-gun battalion. One brigade of artillery, consisting of three regiments of field artillery, and one trench mortar battery. One regiment of engineers. One field signal battalion. The following trains: Headquarters and military police, sanitary, supply, engineer, and ammunition. The following division units: Headquarters troop and one machine-gun battalion. A general order of the War Department providing for the consolidation of all branches of the army into one army to be known as the “United States Army” was promulgated by General March on August 7th. The text of the order read: 1. This country has but one army--the United States Army. It includes all the land forces in the service of the United States. Those forces, however raised, lose their identity in that of the United States Army. Distinctive appellations, such as the Regular Army, Reserve Corps, National Army, and National Guard, heretofore employed in administration command, will be discontinued, and the single term, the United States Army, will be exclusively used. 2. Orders having reference to the United States Army as divided in separate and component forces of distinct origin, or assuming or contemplating such a division, are to that extent revoked. 3. The insignia now prescribed for the Regular Army shall hereafter be worn by the United States Army. 4. All effective commissions purporting to be, and described therein, as commissions in the Regular Army, National Guard, National Army, or the Reserve Corps, shall hereafter be held to be, and regarded as commissions in the United States Army--permanent, provisional, or temporary, as fixed by the conditions of their issue; and all such commissions are hereby amended accordingly. Hereafter during the period of the existing emergency all commissions of officers shall be in the United States Army and in staff corps, departments, and arms of the service thereof, and shall, as the law may provide, be permanent, for a term, or for the period of the emergency. And hereafter during the period of the existing emergency provisional and temporary appointments in the grade of Second Lieutenant and temporary promotions in the Regular Army and appointments in the Reserve Corps will be discontinued.