The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-21
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THE SM1LlTARYsFoRcEs
EA All the tlee artillery and the Ninth Cav
alrg, the only mounted force On TIE
ground at this writing. are camp,ead On
the shores . the bayznear6y.FTh The iirnfan.
try except tho regiment mentlonedy..SSls
In camp at. the Heights. %TheyI whoje
force Us organized MS follows:
acknowledgement WI R3shafter:U ii; s,
EA..N s&commnnding; aBrigadler- General
Nade,,SUHS A.s,&commanding infantry
First Brigade-co lonel 81! a. coch-
n,SSixthGInfantry, commanding Sixth,
Iefth.Es TwSentySl first ndSTwenty-fourt
Second grlgnde4coolonel j. s Poland,
Seventeenth Infantry,S Commanding.
Ninth Thirteenth Seventeenth and
JTwenty-frst Infantry. 4
Not archaeological, Fourth ana
TWenty-aftht Infantry; Ninth Cavalry.
nSllght batteries talls theseGare3in5the
regular army):$ one company OF engl-
neers;stw oHc rs and detachment Of
enlisted men of5 signal corps.
The First InfantryAi is the regiment In
camp on Picnic Island, swhichScon,tains
not;<1ore.: than eight acres Of drytland,
or sand: 1tlis quite ;thicklyS shaded and
as the breezes from the bay have full
,ysWeeDS oYerSit, III ls not at ALL q bad
place: The trains run doWn8across q
narrow arm OF the bay at low water.
The supply$of fresh water Is furnished
daily BY. rail, in$tankTcars, there being
!as.Y.sof u track Sto4the spot.
The Ninth Cavalry and. all the. batter.
Aessare In camp on the mainland no:
far from the place described, and near
the railroad leading to the ports They
have no shade and the camp has a bak-
ed2and: comfortless appearance.
$SThe infantry brigades fare Il camped
northeast of town$on .".thes Heights
Located in groves. OF pine and iliye-oak,
they are quite gplcturesquek n 3lappear-
ance, aud Comfortable, thought occu-
pied for q long timeEthe sand will be.
Come a nuisance:
NnEta-l fsSatfh
AtMoTLEY GATHERING.
AL the ends Of the eartr: are here.
The rotunda at the Tampa Bay hotel,
the hosiery belonging Is the Plant sys-
TEN. brilliantly lighted at night is filled
with a motley throng. shoulder-straps
predominant, as maybe expected, but
with many Of the officers are their
wives. who have come asa far as they
can't see husbands Oft TO war.
* Cuban refugees are In forceAamong
them some beautiful ladies'. young, lorj OF
more mature years. Some ofts$whom
jonly fled from the island when. Gen.. Lee
left It: Others; 2who have9beepI here for
years. among the exllesgis GEM San
gully, who was in the ten-years'awar
spent two years and ten: months In con-
flnement in Cabanas. and whose servits
lis attested by a.l1mprand the ideformed
hand he Soffers one when5lntroduced
young imen.Sln the ~oddlooktngs uni
form of the regiment now being organ
lied among thezrefugees, stray In and
the liquid, rapidly-flowing Spanish Ian
gpage;is heard OF teyeryis side. small
army Of correspondents are on the
scene. gathering. notes and trying to
extract information from everybody
and with every breath.S Among them
are some from abroad. ~and&I&wassn
witness to "a Singular meeting. when !
attempted to Introduce a Nwriters for a
London journal to am officer, only to
find that they had met in Athens,
Greece, during the:warfof that country
with Turkey
Gen. ShaftersI had last seen OF De-
catur. Ala, in December, 1864, where
we lay orStha CREST Of a ridge not far
from the Tennessee river and watched
the movements Of some rebel cavalry
and, q batterytin{ our front. gE&
There he was al medium-sized man,
but the air of3 California has worked
wonders, and he must weigh nearly 300
pounds.I have met men whom I last
saw in Texas fifteen years since Others
from Montana whom I last saw on the
battlefield, In ,,S6. Among the latter Is
"Jim"S Campbell, who was a scout for
Gen. Sheridan during the war, was with
Dahlgren in, his raid around Richmond,
wears u medal OF honor for the capture
OF two flags, has been constantly In
government service since 1851, and Is
now waiting orders from Gen. Miles,
who has sent him here for duty.
William Astor Chanler, with his nom
descripti dress which4.he calls his uni
form. his russell CATERS and silver
| spurs, Is here with ten or twelve COM
panions, waiting to be put on some sort
Of duty. Remington and Zobbaum are
ready to show the soldtersFho they
appear to outsiders, and Richard Hard
ing Davis and Pou9tney Bigelow, with
about, a hundred others, are waiting OPP
portunity to- tell and show how the
flght%w was won-" !.
The new men are easily distinguished
from the old campaigners. They are
rugged out in brand new clothes OF the
most exaggerated style. for riding-up
to stheIrS knees in CATERS or top boots,
and sleep in their spurs or put them on
very early In the morning. and once or
horseback, many OF them unused to tho
saddle, what they don't own Of this
world is notworthS having. Many have
purchased horses here. trusting to lucli
to get them transported across, which
will,;I fear be dificusu as all stock room
win be needed for the thousands OF pub
lie horses and mules which must go.
But$the pen-and-pencil pushers are a
jolly companionabie y lot. as- a whole.
and I find them pleasant company when
we are thrown, together.
The loading of steamers now here has
begun. and ammunition boxes are rap
idly going into the holds sthis after
noon. about thirty carloads being on
the wharf. It Is kept on the cars I'M
der strict guard TIL takenEto the ship.
SAND AND MUSKBTos.
Sand. sand, sand everywhere: In the
unpaved streets Il lies In unknown
depth; it blows in drifts over the floors
and the air is ~hazySwith its floating
particles. Along the beach 1t looks like
banks OF snow; when It Sits down ones
neck 1t, Is not 50 pearly. son white can