The age-herald., 1898-08-24
Gen. Hudson Established Head-
 quarters Next Gen. Snyder.
HISTORY OF FIFTH CAVALRY
Is Probably Most Interesting in the Army Has Furnished Twenty Gener- als-Interesting Gossip of
 the Camp.
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.

Special Dispatch to The AGe-Herald.
 Huntsville Ala, Aug 23-Brigadier Gen eral J. K. Hudson, commanding the Second brigade, second division, Fourth army corps, today established his headquarters beside that of General Snyder, division commander, in East Huntsville. General Hudson has the folloing staff officers with him.
 Major J. E. McMaher, adjutant general.
 Lieutenant W. J. Glasgow aide.
 Captain R. D. Simmons, chief quarter master.
 Captain G. B. McCullam, chief comms- sary.
 The Second brigade will have all of its regiments here when the First Florida, which is now en route, arrives.
 The Fifth cavalry now located at Bra ham Spring has more interesting history than all the remainder of the regular army. Twenty men served in this regiment prior to 1861, who were afterward generals in the union and confederate armies and nearly every one achieved distinction. The federal generals who were members of the Fifth cavalry were: Major Generals Geo. H. Thomas, R. w. Johnson, George A. Custer and Kenner Garrard; Brigadier Generals Irwin N. Palmer and J. K. Oaks. The confederates were: Generals Albert PyuhSJ JohIotoil, Lee, flTDy Smith, Lieutenant Generals John B. Hood, M J. Hardee, Major Generals Earl Van Dorn, Fitzhugh Lee, Brigadier Generals N. G. Evans, Sharp, Xennime Crosby and Phifer.
 A committee of prominent citizens from Decatur are here today consulting with Major General Coppinger in regard to es- tablfshing military camp in that city. The committee has heard a report that the troops now at Chickamauga are to be mobilized at other points, and that the war department will place more regiments than those of the Fourth army corps at the disposal of General Coppinger. The De- catur committee is headed by pr. L. Hens ley Grubbs, editor of the Decatur News, and Hon. A. F. Murray.
 First Ohio in Camp
 The First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, which arrived from Lakeland last night, pitch q its tents to-day on a site adjoining the en- campment of the Fifth Cavalry at Bra ham Springs, a mile and a half from the city. They cooked their first meal in the new camp at noon. The regiment suffered severely by the long journey from Lakeland, and today forty new patients were consigned to the hospital. Major F. E. Bruce, surgeon, after discovering the condition of his men, improvised hospital in an empty residence near the government building. In this hos pital tonight there are forty men, none of them being seriously affected, their illness being caused by Exhaustion, coupled with the malarial poison contracted from the Florida swamps. The surgeons expect sev- eral of them to recover tomorrow Gen. Coppinger's headquarters received a message announcing the departure from Fernandina of the First Florida Infantry. The regiment is expected at Camp Wheel CT tomorrow night.
 The ladies of Huntsville have beg n a movement to furnish light apparel for sol diers in the hospitals, and many of them have urged that they be accepted as nurses.