The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-28
BRIGADING TROOPS
General Fitz Lee Issues
Order.
SEVENTH ARMY CORPS
EMBRACES THE TAMPA AND
JACKSONVILLE TROOPS.
GENERAL LEE ANNOUNCES HIS STAFF
The Organization Of the Brigade will be Com
pleted as Soon as Other Volunteers
Arive-.Gen. Lee Pleased
with Camn Grounds.
with Camp Grounds.


Tampa, Fla, May 27.--Major General
Lee issued an order today for the brig
aiding Of the troops at Tampa and Jack !
sonville, embraced in the seventh army
corps The order made no changes in
General Shafter's general order lGst
night Brgadier Guy will take com
mand of the first division and Brigadier
General A. *. Arnold of the second di-
vision. The organization of the corps
will he completed in later orders as 9th
er volunteer regiments arrive and go
into camp. This vii not be for several
days, as the corps will be made up ofI
twenty-seyen regiments when completed
while only "A third of this number are nOwJ
in camp here and at Jacksonville. 1t is
ordered that the general officers of the
troops already in camp select their aides
from the officers belonging to their re-
Spectiye commands. The condition Of
some of the volunteer regiments is sadly
deficient rs regards arms and clothing
and so urgent have become the require
ments in this respect that no supplies will
be issued to the regular troops until the
volunteers are equipped and in readiness
for actual field duty. The lack of arms
especially has been sadly felt. Xolm-
tecr brigade commanders have been or
dered to report to the chief quartermas-
ter at once the tcntage, clothing and
means of transportation on hand and
what is required and To the chief ord
nance officer, the character and quality
of arms ON hand and what is needed for
complete equipment The wants of the
volunteer regiments will be- filled as fast
as reports are made.
Major General Ices staff was an
nounced today as follows:
Personal staff: First Lieutenant Al
gern0n Sart0riS, first regiment volunteer
engineers; First Lieutenant Fitzhugh
Lee. .Ir., first regiment volunteer engin-
GERS; First Lieutenant Carlos Carbonet,
first regiment volunteer engineers.
Corps staff Lieutenant Colonel X. II.
Dorst assistant adjutant general; Cap
tain II. Il. Elmichie, assistant adjutant
genral; Lieutenant Colonel VIM. r. Iiy-
ermore, chief engineer; Lieutenant Col
onel Juris Guild. inspector general; Lieu
tenant Colonel J. n. Morrison. deputy
Judge advocate general; Lieutenant Col
onel l.. NJ. Maus. chief surgeon; Lieutcn-
ant Colonel c. +. Miller chief quarter
master; Lieutenant Colonel o. T.. Wood,
chief of eommissary.
Pending the arrival of Lieutenant Col
onel Miller, Lieutenant Colonel Wood is
appointed acting chief quartermaster Of
the seventh corps and Lieutenant Col
onel Guild is temporarily assigned to
duty as chief ordnance officer of the
seventh corps.
Major General Shafter's staff was also
announced as follows:
Personal staff: First Lieutenant r. H.
Noble, first infantry, aide; First Lieu
tenant J. d. Miley, second artillery,
aide
Corps staff: Lieutenant Colonel II. T..
McClernand, assistant adjutant general,
U. s. volunteers, adjutant general; Cap
tain j. c. MilmOre, Jr., assistant adju-
tant general L. :. volunteers, assistant
to the adjutant general; Major S. w.
Groesbeck. Judge advocate. acting Judge
advocate; Major J. w. Jacobs quarter
master acting chief quartermaster:
Lieutenant Colonel b. r.. Pope chief
surgeon u. s. volunteers, chief surgeon:
First Lieutenant Frank Greens, signal
corps, signal officer
The first Florida regiment of volun-
teers which has been camped on the old
Fort Brooke reservation, broke camp
today and marched to the new volunteer
camp at Palmetto beach. where the
thirty Michigan. third and fifth
Ohio and second Georgia are located
This. however, is but ii temporary ar
rangement for the concentration
Of the volunteer troops. General Lee
is pleased with the camp ground, which
is really the most favorable around
Tampa, having plenty of shade and wa
ter, but all the available room for troops
in the locality is now utilized, and there
is no room for drilling purposes.
Should there be no immediate moving
out of the regular troops-in which case
the volunteers would occupy the old
camping grOunds-it is very probable
some new location will be sought, If not
AT Tampa at some other point Both
Jacksonville and Miami have been con |
sidered in this respect.
The availability of Jacksonville. es-
pecially as rendezvous point for the |
thousands Of volunteer troops yet to ar |
rive. has, it is understood, been under
discussion, and General Lees visit of in |
spection to the Florida metropolis may
ultimately result in the establishment of
the headquarters Of the seventh army
corps at that point. All this, of course, I
IL contingent on the time of the move
ment towards Cuba.
The following assignments were made
by General Shafter to-day: Captain A. 1
q. sharpe. 22nd infantry, adiutant gem |
eral. first division 9th corps; Lieutenant
G. M. Truitt. 2lst infantry, adjutant :
general first division, seventh corps |
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