The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-16
The Boys Are Marching,
Today From All Over the
United States.
ENTIRE REGULAR ARMY ORDERED OUT.
Fifteen thousand Troops VIII Reach the
Southern Coast
Within Few Days IN Readiness to Move
on Havana.
Flags Waving, Drums Beating and Martial Music Playing
a. =. e -
Flags Waving Drums Beating and Martial Music Playing
From One End of the Nation to the Other.

Washington, April 16.-From every
part of the Union today Uncle SAINTS
soldiers are moving toward F'lorida. The
entire regular army was started south
ward by an order issued at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon directing the First,
Second, Third, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth
cavalry and all light batteries to pro-
ceed at once to Chickamauga, the First,
Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Eighteenth, Twentieth and
Twenty-third infantry to New Orleans:
the Second, Third Fourth. Sixth, Thir-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Nine
teenth, Twenty-second and Twenty
fourth infantry to Mobile. the Fifth,
Ninth and Twenty-first infantry to
Tampa.
General Miles said that under the
present distribution of the army II, 900
or $4,000 soldiers will be assembled in
Florida. The artillery regiments are al
ready distributed along the coast for
the operation of the various fortifica-
tions and batteries.
The officers who will command will
be General Shafter at New Orleans.
General Coppinger at Mobile General
Wade at Tampa, and General Brooke at
Chickamauga.
At Chickamauga there will be six reg
iments of cavalry and the light batter
les of five regiments of artillery: at
New Orleans, eight regiments of in
fantry; at Tampa, seven regiments of
infantry and at Mobile, seven regiments
of infantry. Since the civil war no
such proportion of the army has been
modified.
The two new regiments of artillery
recently authorized by congress have
not been recruited to their full strength,
and in addition are not well equipped
with horses and other necessary re-
quisites for service and therefore are
not included in the orders. The depart
ment has distributed the % regiments
of infantry at convenient places on the
Gulf that will be accessible for trans
portation to Cuba Proposals have been
invited from steamship companies for
chartering vessels to the government
for this work.
Instructions to the commanding, Off
GERS of the regiments ordered to move
were sent out with the direction that
they be put into effect a S soon as possi-
BILE The railroad facilities, the officials
say, are ample to meet the demands of
the occasion and no trouble will be ex-
perienced in mobilizing the large boGy
of men at the places designated within
a reasonably short space of time
The formal order of General Miles
after providing for the movement of
troops as stated in the foregoing, saws:
The commanding general, department
of the Colorado will detail a company of
FIFTEENTH infantry to proceed to Fort
Wingate and take the station at that
post. AT posts from which the whcle
garrison is withdrawn an officer ana a
detail of two men from each company
VIII be left in charge of the post. All
transportation will accompany the
troops The necessities of the post from
which all public transportation is with
drawn will be provided for by hired
transportation through the quarter
masters department. Troops will be
provided with 80 days field rations and
necessary camp equipage."
The command of the army will de-
volve upon Major General Nelson A.
Miles, who is now at the head of the
military branch of the government His
temporary headquarters, it is said, prob
ably will be at Atlanta where General
Graham, who has command of the de
Partment OF the Gulf is now located
miles permanent headquarters