The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-05
Brigades of Gems. Ernst and Hams to
Proceed from Camp Thomas to
Charleston or Savannah.
1000 SOLDIERS ON THE WAY
ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY NOW ON
TRANSPORTS Ar TAMPA.
The Fourth Celebrated by Volunteers
at AIger and Other Camps-Hoosiers
at Chickamauga Ready to Go.

WASHINGTON, July acknowledgements
are to be hurried to General Shafter as
rapidly as steamships can carry them, not
outstanding the fact that additional troops
are not SO badly needed as was indicated
by the developments Of Friday and Satur-
day. The dispatches received by the War
Department from General Shafter show a
confidence in his present ability to control
the situation. In fact, he says he is master
OF the city of Santiago, which his troops
entirely surround. The position he occupies
makes it impossible either for the Spanish
forces to evacuate the city or for General
Pando's troops to reinforce them.
During the afternoon Secretary Alger.
General Miles and General Corbin had a
conference with the President at the White
House concerning the sending of reinforce
ments to Shafter and it was determined to
take no chances, but to send the troops
at once. The auxiliary cruiser ST. Paul is
now at New York taking on a cargo of
ammunition for Admiral SIMPSONS fleet.
Owing to the necessity of her early de-
parture 1t was not originally intended 70
send troops by her, but this afternoon
1t was decided she should take one
regiment. In accordance with that deter
mination orders were issued this evening
for the Eighth Ohio Infantry, Col. Charles
V. Hard and Lieutenant Colonel Charles
Dick, the regiment known as 1.-THE Presi-
dents Own" because 1t comes from the
immediate vicinity of President McKinley's
home, city of Canton, to proceed to New
York and embark on the St Paul for San
tiago The ST. Paul will leave New York
late Wednesday afternoon and will make
flying trip to Cuba. The Eighth Ohio is
one of the three regiments of General Gar
retsons brigade, the other two being the
Sixth Massachusetts and the Sixth Illinois
Both Of the remaining regiments will be
held under waiting orders and will move
probably in few days. The plan is to send
them to Santiago by either the Yale or the
Harvard, both of which are expected short
ly at Newport News. The Eighth Ohio will
leave Camp Alger early Wednesday morn
ing for New York and will board the steam
er Immediately upon arrival there. The
regiment will be accompanied by the
brigade commander, General Garretson.
In addition to the troops at Camp Alger.
which are to be sent to Santiago. the
brigades of General Ernst and General
Hams, now at Chickamauga, will be sent
within few days. General Ernst's brigade
consists of the Third Wisconsin, the Fifth
Illinois and First Kentucky. Gen. Hams
brigade consists of the Ninth PENNSYLVANIA.
Second Missouri and First New Hampshire.
These troops will be sent to Savannah or
Charleston, where steamers have been OBJ
tanned to carry them directly to Santiago.
In addition to the troops now ep route to
Cuba from Tampa the force to be sent with
in few days will reinforce General Shafter
to the extent Of about ten thousand men.
Upwards Of four thousand men are now
on their way to reinforce General Shafter.
most important contingent ia six bat
teries Of light artillery, consisting of twen-
ty-four officers and 62S men, which left
Tampa yesterday. They are made up of
two companies each from the Third Fourth
and Fifth artillery regiments. On June 30
the First Illinois Regiment of forty-six off,
GERS and S96 men pulled out of Tampa and
yesterday at IL o'clock the First District of
Columbia Volunteer Regiment, consisting
Of thirty-six officers and SIT men, in COM
mand Of Colonel George Fl. Harries, left the
same place On June 20 a vessel left with
$50 men aboard, comprising recruits to fill
q number of the existing regiments now in
Cuba to their maximum strength provided
by law. The vessels are to assemble at
Key West, where a naval convoy will escort
them to Skaters relief.