Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-07
TROOPS.

These vessels carry besides their full crew, "A
force of thirty thousand soldiers half of them the
beat trained troops Of General Mcclellan COM
msnd The cry that the krmy Of General Mcclellan
needed more men. which has tor so many weeks
vexed impatient sOuls. is now explained 1t was
not our land forces, but our navel expedition that
needed more men. When troops went on to WASH
lngton il was only that Others better drilled and
more experienced, might be sent to Annapolis IN
readiness to embark In the ships Of the expedition
Thus, from time to time, by the patriotic readiness
of the people to respond to a call the precise pur-
port of which they did not quite comprehend. our
gallant general was enabled to Setach from bis
army large force of the best soldiers he had. We
need not say that these troops are well armed and
ably Offered Neither care nor expense have bsen
spared to make their outfit complete, in arms of
all kinds in great guns, shot, shell, ammunition,
and all the parsphanalla of war. 80 ~ 81
MSS, HORSES, MATERIAL, &c won.
The infantry equipments put on board are sufH
cient for at least ten thousand men. They include
every thing necessary TO prepare the soldier
OF artillery ann uniton there are really immense
quantities. Several of the largest transports are
nearly laden with these materials, and thousands of
shells were sent eff from this port well as shot
canister, and every variety Of deadly missiles,
OF horses the expedition has nearly fifteen hum
dred. They are mostly on board the Great Rspub-
lie. Vanderbilt, Ocean Queen, Baltic and Ericsson
Que ship takes, supplies for these animals, eight
thousand bags of oats, and besides this other yes
sells carry further supplies OF oats and corn while
many tons of hay are divided among the Transports
Two thousand bashels of Cumberland coal have
been taken along. This coal Is Of the finely broken
kind used by smiths in their FORCES, because it gives
quick and very intense heat In. ct
Besides the two. wheeled duupting carts already
mentioned, there are also greas number of hand
carts and barroWs, especially OF the latter. Of
course every tool needed in constructing earth-I
works ia found in this immense 0DsRtG1 9dtherIn /
Three or four transports are partially laden with
brick, mostly fire brick. These are probably to be-
used in conf junction with the fac Cumberland coal
for heating shot Camp stoves are cheaper, han \
der, and more quickly set up for cooking pur-
poses, and the brick most probably TO be used
constructing furnaces TO heat red hot shot with
which the great colqmbiads will do good exscu-
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OF the army forces we can give no complete &C. I
COunt A portion of the troops were detailed from /
General McClellan's army, bat other regiments
sailed directly from New York. NOR from Boston, /
and few, We understand, from other points be |
tween these cities. slE1ETH ot ted1 ae.I.ra3 /
The land forces under command Of General
Thomas Sherman. an Gble an / distiAs uished Of 4
fcer, u no entered West Point in 1882. Hs is dis
uished artillery officer, and1Was brevett.
f gallant and meritOrious cOnduGtiin the battle
of Buena VISTA" He is native Of Rhode Island. .