Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-07

deztand, from other points between these
cities. The regiments, 50 far as we have
been able to ascertain, are given below Our
LIST is necessarily incomplete.
The land forces are under command of Gen.
Thos. W. Sherman, an able and distinguish
ed officer, who entered West Point in 1882.
BE is distinguished as an artillery officer,
and was breyetted for .gallant and merito-
rious conduct in the battleof Buena VISTA"
He is native of Rhode Island.
Gen. Sherman's headquarters are on board
the steamer Atlantic, which carries over
i 200 troops besides her own crew.
Three brigades of the force are command
ed by Generals Vicle, Stephens and Wright.
Egbert L. Yicle was graduated from the
West Point Military Academy in the year
1912, aud was a classmate of Gen. Mcclellan.
He served in the Mexican war, and in 1853
resigned bis commission to accept the posi-
tion of chief engineer of the State of New
Jersey. Ee is considered an able and ex-
perienced officer, and. at thirty-sx years of
age, ranks as Brigadier- General.
Isaac Ingalls, Stevens, who is General in
command of the Second Brigade, was grad
uated at West Point in 1889 and entered the
corps of engineers. He resigned in 1853 to
accept the appointment of Governor of
Washington Territory, aud was elected as
representative to Congress in 1857. He was
in Mexico. aud was brevetted Captain for
gallant and meritorious conduct at Cheru-
buscO, and was brevetted Major at Chapul-
tepec, September Is, 1S47. He was severely
wounded on the same day.
Horatio Gates Wright, commanding the
Third Brigade, was graduated at West Point
in 1887, and appointed q Lieutenant in the
engineer corps in 1841. Since his gradua-
ton he has been an Assisi ant Professor and
Professor in the United States Military Acad-
envy. and has the reputation of being a
superior engineer and thoroughly efficient
officer. zssst q 81 siaassl -.
General Vicle's Brigade consists of the New
Hampshire Third, Col. E. d. Fellows; the
New York Forty -sixtb, Col. Ross; the New
York Forty-seventh, Col. Moore; the New
York Forty-eighth, Col. Perry, and the
Maine Eighth, Col. Lee Strickland.
The Brigade of Col. Stevens consists OF
the Pennsylvania Fiftieth, Col. Benz. Christy;
the Michigan Eighth, Col VIM. M. Fenton;
the New York Seventy -Einth, Capt. Morri-
son. in command, and the Round-head Penn.
sylvania, Col. Dan Leasure, (rifes.)
General Wright's Brigade consists of the
New Hampshire Fourth, Colonel Thos. Whip
pie; Connecticut Sixth, Colonel John L.
Chat6eld; Connecticut Seventh, Colonel A.
III. Ferry; and the Maine Ninth, Col. Ruther.
ford Rich.
Besides these regiments, are the Seventh
and Eighth Wisconsin, and engineer abattal-
ion five hundred strong, commanded by
Lieutenant-CoionelS erreli; the Massachusetts
Twenty-frst, Colonel Augustus Morse, and
the famous light battery known as Sherman's
in command of which General Sherman won
his laurels in Mexico. This is now commaad
ed by Captain Hamilton, and consists of six
guns, one hundred and forty men, and one
hundred and twenty horses. Besides these
and other regiments, of whom we have not
been able to keep count, the expedition takes
one thousand stont negroes as laborers on
the Notifications which will be thrown up as
soon as the troops land. These are contra
bands who have come in from Virginia at
different times, and their powerful muscle
relief to our soldiers,
1t is supposed that only about half the
troops are mentioned above. ad
We are indebted to Mr.. G. w. Blunt fol-
the following accurate table of distances, il
nautical miles, from Hampton Roads to diff
ferent points. from some one of which inter
esting intelligence may be expected in the
course of few days:
From Hampton Roads to Hatteras I39 miles
do Hatteras to Beaufort, N. c.. SO do
do do to Charleston. -. 26O do
do do to Port Royal.... 900 do
do do to Savannah. 800 do
do do to Brunswick. $40 do
The fleet, when under steam, with trans
ports in tow will make seven knots per hour
If the wind is not reverse. Under sail, witt
fair wind and good weather, the progress
would be more rapid. The October gales ar
be reasonably expected, SO that neither COLI
sion nor separation of the feet need be ap
pretended. - 1.ss--.-
g ot zas- BOATS FOR LANDING. t.i assl
Several months ago the Government began
| TO provide itself with surf boats. We ma,
say that the expedition carries with it no
less than, five hundred of these needed helm
for landing troops-suficien to effect sim
| Infamous landing of great number of men
| Besides these surf boats the Government pur
chases several ferry boats. These boats wer
strengthened by iron bulwarks, and will ais
doubtless be used for landing troops, 70
| which service they are well fitted, each boa
being capable of transporting at least min
hundred men at a trip; and their peculia
build making it much easier to land troop
| fiom them than from steamboats, of the usua
form. sgs-a. sSsatas
SURF BoATMEN.
It is known that seamen. though able boat
men, are not always acquainted with tn
/ management of surf boats, or with the land
ing of men through heavy surf. To proven
accidents the Navy Department some month
/ ago, sent trusty agents to the shores of New
Jersey and Long Island and secured the ser
vices of a sufficient number of the hard
wreckers of those coasts. men who played il
/ the surf when they were children, and VIII
| have worked in it ever since. These brav
| and skillful men will guide the boats in whc
our troops land at the point of attack. Il
addition, the Navy Department recruited fur
| Their among the skilled and patriotic seamel
| of Cape Cod and Cape Ann, numbers of whom
eagerly VOLUNTEERED for work for which, b,
| long experience, they are peculiarly fitted
/ They will not only assist in working tn
boats by which the army will be lauded, Blu
| will remain as part of the land force after
wards. af - - go 1se-s.f
The material outfit of the expedition in
| cludes a vast variety of objects, which, wheI
enumerated, prove what knowledge and care
! full foreth0ught is needed in those who super
intended the operations. It may be said tina
| it contains almost everything which com
i munity would gather and take along if i
were about TO found q colony in some desert
| ed island of the ocean. First and most nee
essary comes food. Besides the rations pro
| vided for the troops while they shall remain
on board, the transport bear at least tire
and a half months supplies of food of ever,
| kind for the great Amy which is to be land
| ed. One ship carries out cargo of water
| and the department. has already chartere,
and laden other vessels to send down furtbe