The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-26
Goes to Santiago This Week With
$4,000 Men.
COPPINGER''S ARMY CORPS
SANTIAGO TIE BASE FOR Flu
TURE OPERATIONS.
Miles Will Assume Active Command
of All the Forces In the Field and
Lead Subsequent Campaigns
Army Corps-Transports to Re-
turn.

Tribune from Washington says: Gen
eral Miles has made all ARRANGEMENTS
to leave Washington at once for Tam
pa, to embark there as soon as possible,
with General Coppinger and the Fourth
army corps, of about $4,000 men. for
Santiago, that point being definitely an
nounced as the chief outlying base of
supplies for subsequent military and
naval operations against the enemy in
the West Indies. General Miles eX-
pressed the hope that General Shafter
will have succeeded in taking posses
sion Of Santiago before he reaches
there. but in case this achievement Is
delayed, the large army of reinforce
ents will undoubtedly be able to ef-
feet a speedy termination of the siege,
as we'll as neutralize. the heavy addi
tiOnal forces constituting the flower of
the Spanish army in Cuba, consisting
Of 10000 men under General Pando,
known as their fighting general, which
is now reported as Fastening to the
scene overland from Holguin, 20 miles
in aa air line.
General Shafter has been directed by
cable to get ali the supplies out of his
transports as quickly as possible, and
hasten them back to TAMPA for Gen
eral Coppinger's troops, Who are now
ready to embark, and Secretary Long
sent orders at the same time to Ad-
miral Sampson to furnish an effective
convoy of wal ships for the expedition.
1t is believed the big fleet can start
or its return voyage not later than
TEursdaE morning, their condition be-
ing adducive to the attainment of much
higher speed than they made on the
outward voyage. With no troops
aboard, it will also be unnecessary to
exercise such strict precautions against
the possibility of desperate attacks by
small gunboats or torpedo cruisers and
perhaps the faster vessels will not nave
to wait for those of slower speed.
According to the present arrange
nentS. when General Miles arrives at
Tampa Monday morning. he will imme-
diately undertake the execution of all
necessary preliminaries to provide for
the prompt and systematic loading of
supplies on the transports, and none
OF the eXasperating delays which mark
ed the departure of the first expedition
are expected to re-occur on this occa-
s:o--
COPPINGER'S CORPS.
General Coppinger's force is composed
almost entirely of the brigades which
were originally selected to participate
with General ShaftCr, and it has the
of thorough and compact or
ganization. The organization is as fol-
lows:
Second division-First brigade, Col
onel J. D. De Russey, Eleventh y. S.
and Nineteenth U. S. infantry.
Second brigade-General L. H. Car
penter, First infantry, District of Co
lumbia volunteers; Second infantry,
New York volunteers, and Fifth Mary
land infantry volunteers.
Third brigade-Brigadier General r.
H. Hall, Third infantry Pennsylvania
One Hundred and Fifty |
seventh Indiana volunteers, First Ohio
volunteers and First infantry |
Illinois volunteers.
Third division, First brigade-Briga- !
der General Jacob Klein, Fifth in /
fantry Ohio volunteers, First infantry /!
Florida volunteers and Thirty I
Michigan volunteers.
Second brigade-Brigadier General ].
N Andrews. Sixty-ninth New York |
volunteers, Third infantry
Ohio volunteers and Second infantry
Georgia volunteers.
Third brigade-Provisional cavalry
brigade, Fifth United States cavalry,
battalions of the First, Second, Third,
Sixth and Tenth United States cavalry,
two battalions of the United States
volunteer cavalry and First cavalry
Ohio volunteers.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures artillery
brigade, Brigadier General w. F. Ran
1olph, six light batteries United States
and two heavy batteries.
The total strength of this force slight
y exceeds $4,000 men. The first division
If the Fourth army corps, under Gen
eral Schwan, which has been removed
% Miami, will not accompany the ex-
petition, but will probably be attached
@ General Lees corps.
MORE TRANSPORTS.
In addition to the 80 transports util-
zed by General Shafter, the war de-
)artment has chartered all other YES
els which are available for immediate
lse, and these will probably be as
embled at Tampa the first of next
week. They are the Louisiana, the
hudson, the Unionist, the Specialist.
he Catania, the Arkadia, the Nueces,
he Comanche, the Tampassas, the City
f Menon and the Gate City.
The war department has announced
he purchase of eight transatlantic
nerS, seven of them of much greater
apacity than any of the American !
transports heretofore chartered, and as
many of these vessels as can be made
eady in time will be utilized
While General Miles intends to ac- ,,
ompany this expedition in support of
ieneral Shafter, it is not contemplate ;
d that he will. assume direct COM !
hand, although possibly one major
eneral, if not two, will be attached to .
be corps as division commanders. The ;
etail of all additional officers. includ-/
lg several brigadiers, is now under G
{
On the arrival of the force at San :
ago, General Miles, by virtue Of his c
osition will assume active command !
all the forces in the field, and as q
BON as the city falls he will under .
Ike in person the leadership of subse- =
uent campaigns, whether against :
orto Rico or various Cuban points.
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