The evening times., 1898-05-04
THE ARMY ORDERS.
Regular Cheers Granted Leave to
Accept Volunteer Commissions.

The following Army orders were
! posted at the War Department yes,er-
! day:
Capt. Charles d. Parkhurst. Second Ar
! tillery, will proceed at once to Tampa
Fla, and join his battery.
Private Thomas J. Hodges. Company
G, Fourth Infantry. now at Tampa. Fla
| is transferred to Battery II. Fourth Ar
tillery. and will be sent TO the station of
that battery. Fort Monroe. Va
Private Wilbur b. Coe Battery E
Sixth Artillery now at Washington Bar
racks. District of Columbia is transfer
/ red TO the Hospital Corps as a private
The following changes in the stations
- officers of the medical department are
ordered:
Capt. Charles Wilcox. assistant sur
geon is relieved from duty at Fort Bliss.
Texas. and will report in person to the
commanding general of troops in the
field at Mobile. Ala.
Major William r. Davis surgeon is
relieved from duty With the Nineteenth
Infantry. at Mobile, Ala, and will re-
port in person to the commanding officer.
Fort Myer, Va, for temporary duty at
that post, reporting by letter to the COM
manding general, Department of the
East.
First Lieut.. William f. Richards. as
sistant surgeon, is relieved from duty al
Fort Apache. AriZ., 10 take effect upon
the arrival at that post of Capt Edward
Everts. assistant surgeon. and will re-
port in person to Major General John r.
Brooke. commanding Camp George H.
Thomas. Chickamauga National Park.
Ga. for duty with troops in the field
First Lieut.. Joseph r. MaXfield. Signal
Corps, Is relieved from duty as assistant
to the signal officer. Department of the
East, will take station in New York City.
and carry out such instructions as he
may receive from the chief signal officer
of the Army.
Acting Assistant Surgeon John Cutie
ras. United States Army. now in this city.
will proceed to Tampa, Fla, and report
in person for duty to the commanding
general of the United States troops at
that place.
Second Lieut.. Allyn X. Capron. Seventh
Cavalry. is relieved from duty at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma Territory, and will report
by telegraph to Captain Leonara Wood,
United States Army. for duty as adjutant
of the regiment of volunteers which Capt.
Wood has been authorized TO organize.
Acting Assistant Surgeon w. W. Call
houn. United States Army, will proceed
from this city to Tampa. Fla, and report
in person for duty to the commanding
general of the United States troops at
that place.
Second Lieut.. James NJ. Williams, Sew
enth Artillery, is assigned TO Battery F,
of that regiment.
Leave of absence until further orders is
granted Captain Edward E. Hardin. Sew
enth Infantry, TO enable him TO accept
the commission of colonel of a New York
regiment of volunteers.
BY direction of the President. First
Lieut.. Walter II. Gordon. Eighteenth In
fantry, is temporarily relieved, by the
Secretary of War, from duty at Delaware
College. Newark, Del, to enable him to
give his entire time to the instruction of
the National Guard of that State.
Capt Walter l.. Fin$ey, Ninth Cavalry.
is relieved from duty as mastering officer
for the State of Maryland, and First
Lieut.. Ellwood Evans Eighth Cavalry.
is detailed in his stead.
The board Of officers convened at VAN
couver Barracks, Washington, for the