The age-herald., 1898-08-13
FOURTH CORPS
 TO HUNTSVILLE hajOT-G0neral COppinSer and Staff Passed
 Through Last Night. FROM CAMP AT FERNANOlNA Mill Establish Corps Headquarters at
 Huntsville. ELEVEN REGIMENTS TO FOLLOW Within Next Two Weeks, All Through Birmingham-Corps Had Heavy Death Rate in Florida, and
 Are Glad to Get Away.
FROM CAMP AT FERNANDINA
ELEVEN REGIMENTS TO FOLLOW

Major-General Coppinger of the United States army in command of the fourth ar- my corps, passed through the city last night accompanied by his staff on his way to Huntsville, Ala, to which place the whole corps will be removed within the next ten or fifteen days. It Is now sta- tioned at Fernandna and Jacksonville. The following members of his staff accom- panied General Coppinger:
 Major Edwards assistant adjutant- general.
 Colonel Crlttenden, chief of engineers. Colonel Grierson, chief of commissary, Colonel Penny, chief quartermaster.
 Colonel Strong, chief signal officer.
 Captain Thompson, inspector-general.
 Captain Lippitt assistant medical di- rector.
 Captain Winthrop, headquarters com missary.
 Lieutenant shuttleworth, headquarter's quartermaster.
 Lieutenant Stanley, aide-de-camp and acting assistant adjutant-general.
 Lieutenant Cummins, aide-de-camp.
 Lieutenant Emmett aide-de-camp
 Regiments in the Corps
 The following volunteer regiments make up the Fourth army corps, all of which will pass through Birmingham in the next two weeks en route to Huntsville
 Third Ohio.
 Fifth Ohio.
 One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana. Second New York.
 sixty-nfnth NewEs.Ss,-,--,.s Second Georgia.
 First Florida.
 Fifth Maryland.
 Third Pennsylvania.
 Thirty-second Michigan.
 Each of these regiments originally had it's full strength of about 1 300 men each, and the corps now consists of something like 12,O00 men,
 The train bearing these officers arrived over the Louisville and Nashville from Montgomery at 9 o'clock and stopped here thirty minutes for supper. There were thirteen cars in the train, which besides the officers mentioned, bore all the clerks of the corps, the officers servants and fifty or sixty men in charge of the horses, wagons and baggage.
 General Coppinger had retired when the train arrived in Birmingham and he could not be seen, but nearly all of his staff took supper in the dining room of the depot and chatted very pleasantly with the nu- merous spectators who crowded the de- pot.
 Will Encamp at Huntsville
 According to the last orders from the war department, General Coppinger is to proceed at once to Huntsville and establish his headquarters. Provisions enough to feed 12.OOO men for some time to come are now on the way to that city, where they will be stored. The camps will be laid out, the water pipes run through the grounds and, in fact, all possible prelim- mary arrangements will be made before the regiments begin to arrive from Fernan- dina This time it Is estimated at about four or five days.
 Bad Health in Florida
 To say that the Fourth corps Is glad to get out of Florida is putting 1t mildly. Their death rate has been something ter rible. the officers say, considering that all of the men are strong and able-bodied and supposed to be free from all organic diseases These regiments will remain in Huntsville probably all the summer to regain their health, and in the fall will be sent to Cuba or anywhere else they are needed. This corps has been ordered around to many places during the past few weeks and 1t seems that they are to wind up in Huntsville.
 General COppinger
 General John J. Coppinger is considered one of the ablest officers in the Ameri- can army. He is a native of Ireland and in bis youth served in the English army.