The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-07-07
TROOPS FORSHAFTER
EIGHTH OHIO INFANTRY SAILS ON
TEE 81. PAUL.

Capt. siGshe. sars His Cruiser is Ready
for Sea at a. y Tiin" "A Large Amount
of supplies for the Ariny Have Been
Taken on Board.
New York, July 6.-All was hustle
and confusion yesterday at the Ameri-
can line pier at the foot of Fulton
street, where the United States auxili-
ary cruiser st. Paul lay. The ship was
being loaded with $500 tons of coal,
provisions, including fresh fruits and
supplies for General Skaters army at
Santiago de Cuba, for which port the
st. Paul will set sail to-day.
On board of her will be the Eighth
Ohio volunteers, known as the "Presi-
dents Own Regiment" under Colonel
Henry, which left Camp Alger at
Washington, D. c., yesterday for this
city.
IT don't exactly know myself just
what ann to do" said Captain Sigsbee
yesterday. 1.-The only information that
I have got is in the form Of an order
from Washington to make preparations
to take a regiment of infantry south.
presume that this is the Eighth Ohio.
as that has been the one spoken of thus
far. I shall finish coaling to-day and
also will have all my supplies aboard
and can sail just so soon as the troops
get aboard"
Among the supplies which are load
ing on the ST. Paul for General Shaf-
ter are 10000 canvas uniforms, $4,000
suits of underclothing, $1,000 pairs of
~ and 1h 000
pairs Of shoes. More than the 10000
canvas suits already loaded will be sent
south on the st. Paul IL the rush order
that the department quartermaster put
in for them Is able to be filled in time.
The cruiser will also carry lot Of
horseshoes, muleshoes and nails.
Washington, July 6.-The brigade un-
der General Garretson at Camp Alger
has been ordered to proceed at once
to Santiago. The Eighth Ohio regi-
ment goes to New York to take the
cruiser ST. Paul.
The other regiments, the Sixth Mas
sachusetts and Sixth Illinois, go to
Charleston s. c., where the Yale and
Harvard will be intercepted on their
way North to embark these troops for
Santiago.
The brigades of General Ernst and
General Haines, now at Chickamauga,
will move with all possible dispatch to
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and 9TH
er Atlantic coast points, there to take
transports to Santiago.
In detail the commands making up
this important body of reinforcements
are as follows:
General Ernsts brigade, First brig
ade, First division, First Army Corps
Third Wisconsin, Colonel Martin T.
Moore; Fifth Illinois, Colonel James s.
Culver; First Kentucky, Colonel John
b. Castleman.
General Haine's Third brigade, Third
division of the First army corps-Ninth
Pennsylvania, Colonel Charles B. Dou-
gherty; Second Missouri, Colonel Will
liam K. Caffey; First New Hampshire,
Colonel Robert H. Rolfa.
General Garretsons brigade Eighth
Ohio, Colonel Curtis v. Hand; Sixth IL
linois, Colonel D. Jack Foster; Sixth
Massachusetts,, Colonel Chas. T. Wood
ward.
1t Is understood that orders to the
brigades at Chickamauga are to nave
with all possible dispatch without fix
ing the exact hour, 1t being left with
those on the field to make the best ar
rangements with the railroads for NOV
ing southwark toward Charleston, Sa-
vannah and the other coast towns of
embarkation.