New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-10
NEWYORK TUESDAY, 1S9S-FOURTEEN PAGES
TO CRUSH SPAIN IN CUBA.
ALL THE MACHINERY OF THE WAR DE-
PARTMENT IN MOTION.
IT IS INTENDED TO STRIKE \ BLOW WHICH Will.
SPEEDILY BRING THE WAR TO AN END
ORGANIZING THE ARMY or INVASION


srEEDILY BRING THE WAR TO AN End
ORGANIZING THE ARMY or INVASION.
fBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRInrNE.l
Washington. May 9-The military movement
10 end the war With Spain by prompt and
decsively aggressive campaign In Cuba was n
full swing to-day throughout the country, orders
being issued from the War Department with
a rapidity similar 10 the continuous rattle OF an
automatic machine gun. The force OF expert
military telegraphcrs sent hundreds Of messages
In cipher and hundreds of others in ordinary
language to commanding generals, to railway
superIntendents. to quartermasters and commits
saries. to State Governors and mastering officers
and to all the units In the vast mechanism which
is relied upon to unite in crushing blow 10
Spanish authority in Cuba and the Philippines
GENERAL MILES TO TAKE THE FIELD.
General Miles having secured the Presidents
permission to take the field in person and COM
mand the invading army. completed his final
arrangements 10 start for Tampa. where he VIII
assume active control OF the force concentrated
there and at Mobile and New-Orleans. dividing
It into divisions under Generals Wade. Cop
pinger and Shafter General CoppnGer was here
to-day. having been ordered TO Washington for
consultation regarding the great campaign ana
started for the South directly after he had been
assigned to operate In il. The plan 10 have Gen
eral Shafier head an army Of five thousand 10
establish base Of communication with the In
surgents was completely swept aside In accord
ance with tho decision announced in these DIS
patches yesterday and Generals Wade, cop
pinger and Shafter respectively In the order
or their rank. It Is now determined. VIII lead
equal divis!ors o, the army of occupation under
General Miles General Brooke. now AZ Chicka-
manga has been definitely selected 10 command
the entire volunteer force OF fifty thousand men
which Is desieoed TO supnor, the regulars in the
campaign. Most ~ the regular forces now IN
camp under him will he sent 10 Mobile and New
Orleans as quickly possible. TO depart smu-
taneously with the expedition from Tampa and
their places on tho Chickamauga battlefield VIII
be speedily occupied by the First Volunteer
Corps consisting OF thirty-cight regiments ~
infantry six light batteries Of artillery and two
regiments OF cavalry.
ORGANIZATIONS OF THE VOLUNTEER CORPS.
Orders for the organization Of this Volunteer
Corps under General BROOKE went forward to-
day The first one directed Major-Generals
James r. Wilson. Ftzhugh Lee and Joseph
Wheeler 10 report 20 General Brooke FOR as
s!cnment as division commanders. The second
ordered Rr!gadier- Generals Charles T. Compton.
Andrew : Burt Samuel :. Sumner. Simon
Snyder Guy Y. Henry. Henry ". Lawion. Adna
r Chafee and George W. Davis 10 report In the
same manner for assignment as brigade com
manders The third related 10 tho assignment
Of troops t. be organized into tho First Corps
at Chckamauga and 10 he drawn from the irst
regiments mustered in the various states as
follows.