Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-11-13

q arc SufncicnC IOr at least ten tnOusand Wen
j. They include everything necessary to pre-
IS pare the soldier.
Of horses the expedition has nearly IF
, teen hundred They are mostly on board
: the Great Republic, Vanderbilt, Ocean
, Queen, Baltic. and Ericsson. One ship
takes as supplies for these animals, eight
thousand bags Of oats, and besides this
. other vessels carry further supplies of oats
and corn, while many tons of hay are di-
vided among the transports.
HOT SHOT.
Colonel Scott, in his able military die
tionary, gives an account of the manner of
using hot shot, and the peculiar destruc-
tiveness of this missile The reader will
remember that it was hot shot which made
Fort Sumter untenable for our gallant gar
. rison; it would be curious retribution If,
after Charleston is destroyed, the insurgents
were in turn driven out of the forts in the
bay by hot shot fired from the shore
OF artillery ammunition there are really
immense quantities. Several Of the larg-
est transports are nearly laden with these
materials, and thousands of shells are sent
off from this port, as well as shot, canister,
and every variety of deadly missiles.
ARTIFICERs.
A number of carpenters, masons, and
other artifcers form part Of the material
Of the expedition, SO that in setting up
barracks and for other work, skilled labor
will be always at hand.
NAVAL COMMANDERS
The naval part of the expedition is un-
der command of Commodore J. f. Dupont
one of the adlest officers of cur navy. He
is of New Jersey by birth, but is now a
citizen of Delaware, belonging Is the fami-
/ ly of Duponts, who are we'll known as
powder manufacturers. Captain Dupont
entered the navy December 10Th, lSl5.-l
He has, therefore, been in the service forty
six years; of which twenty-five have been
passed in service at sea, and eight years
and half in shore duty, in our various
navy yards, where officers get excellent
training in the preparation and use of arms
and ammunition
The feet captain is Commander Charles
H. Davis, who stands in the revised navy
list nearly at the head of the commanders. .
He is a native of Massachusetts, entered
the service in 1928, has seen eighteen
years service, and was last Superintendent
Of the Nautical almanac, and engaged in
other special duty at Washington. He is
counted among the ablest and most skillful 4
officers in the service. The flag lieutenant.
the remaining officer of the commodore's
staff, is Lieut.. S. W. Preston, Canadian
by birth, and a citizen of Illinois, from
which State he entered the service in 1857.
Captain L. NJ. Goldsborough, who is in {
command of the northern half of the At
lantic blockadiDg squadron, will also take
an active part in aiding the expedition
He was born in the District of Columbia,
and entered the service from Maryland, of
which State he is citizen, in 1912
He has been seventeen years at sea and
eleven years on shore duty, and was last in
command of the Congress frigate His
present ship is the Mmnesotd. l
Of the army forces we can give no COM
plete account. \ portion of the troops I
were detailed from Gen. McClellan's army, I
but other regiments sailed directly from
New York, more from Boston and few, a
We understand, from other points between '
those cities. The regiments, so far as we {
have been able to ascertain. are given be-
low. but as the whole expedition was pre-
pared with the utmost secrecy, and many
of the regiments kept in Northern camps
to the last moment, our list is necessarily
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THE COMMANDERS. O
The land forces are under command Of {
Gen. Thomas W Sherman, an able and f
distinguished officer, who entered West a
Point in 1882. was second lieutenant in b
the Third Artillery in 1896, assistant COM /
nlssary of subsistence in 1887, first lieu \
tenant in 1888, and captain in May 1916. t
He is distinguished as an artillery officer, IL
Sherman's battery having gained fame in n
The Mexican war. Capt. Sherman was d
Drevetcd "for gallant and meritorious con- n
iuct in the battle of Buena Vista" He Il
IS native of Rhode Island t.
General Sherman's headquarters are on o.
board the steamer Atlantic, which carries u
over l,200 troops besides her own crew. b
Three brigades of the land forces are al
by Generals Yiele, Stcyent and Il
Wright 4
Egbart /. Yiele was graduated from the b
West Point Military Academy in the year B
1912, and was a classmate of General D
Mcclellan. lie served in the Mexican R R
var and in 1903 resigned his commission b
to accept the position of chief engineer of B
he State Of New Jersey. Since then he = =
las been engineer-in-chief of the Central 9
Parks in New York and Brooklyn. In c
he early part Of the rebellion he organized c
| battalion of two hundred men, and fol Y \
owed the Seventh Regiment to Washing D
on. He is considered an able and an ex- D
'erienced officer, and at thirty-six years Of. F
lge ranks as Brigadier General. " "
Isaac ingalls, Stevens. who is general in H
,ommand Of the second brigade, was gradu- H
tied at West Point in 1899. and entered II
he corps of engineers. He resigned in II II
853, to accept the appointment Of Cover II n
lor Of Washington Territory, and was H
lected as Representative to Congress in 81. ia
Gen. Stevens was in Mexico, and was JgSe
'revctcd captain for gallant and meritori- X,
US conduct at Cherubusco, and was bre- X
eted Major at ChePultepec, Sept 13, II. h
1e was severely wounded on the same day. "a "a
HOratiO Gates Wright, commanding the NJ
bird brigade, was graduated at West PIT, NJ
n 80, and appointed lieutenant in the u y
ngineers corps in II. Since his gradua- NJ NJ
ion he has been an assistant professor at NJ
he United States Military Academy, and 81
as the reputation of being a superior cngi-
Ger and thoroughly-eficient officer.