The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

night. The special orders on this subject
have been issued and provide mat the gen.
eral and his staff and other officers who ac
company him shall proceed to Tampa and
other points that may be designated 'for
temporary duty" The following named Off
GERS will accompany the general: Captain
Francis Michler, Captain M. p. Morse,
Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Gilmore, Major
General Joseph C. Breckenridge and Brig.
Gen. John l. Rodgers, of the volunteer
army; Colonel Charles r. Greenleaf. Lieut..
Col. A L. Wagner, chief of the military in
formation division of the War Department;
Major Henry B. Osgood, commissary; Major
Eli l.. Huggins Captain S. Y. Seyburn,
Captain Hugh L. Scott and First Lieutenant
Edward Anderson.
Colonel Wagner will have charge of the
Bureau of Military Intelligence while the
army is in the field He will be assisted in
his work by Lieutenant Anderson. who is at
present in his office, and other officers in the
field will be detailed as the work of the bu-
reau increases General Miles will have his
headquarters in the field, and great mass
of papers. charts and other data of a mill
tary character have been packed in trunks
ready for shipment to Tampa. Several of
the clerks and messengers in the depart
company General Miles and his staff.
Brigadier General John L. Rodgers, the
senior officer Of the artillery branch of the
army. to-day was appointed chief of artil-
lery of the army and placed in charge of. the
heavy artillery of all the coast defenses.
Until recently he was in command of the
Fifth Artillery, stationed at Governors
island New York city, and arrived in this
city to-day under telegraphic orders from
the War Department and was officially noti-
fled Of his assignment 10 the position indi-
Gated The Office of chief of artillery was
created during the civil war, but was abol-
ished al its conclusion. 1t was so successful
in operation, however, during that crisis
that ii has been deemed advisable to re-
create it for the present war AS such
officer General Rodgers will have immediate
supervision of all land defenses along the
coast. His work will be to see that guns
are properly mounted at the various 1ortih-
cations, proper machinery installed for op-
Grating them and that the proper number
of men are detailed to man them. Unless
present plans are changed the entire coast
will be divided into districts, each to be in
command of an artillery officer and all to be
worked under the direction of General
Rodgers
Preparations are visible, particularly in
the quartermaster's and commissary
branches of the War Department, for the
expeditions for Cuba and for the Philip
pines. On these two bureaus the officials
depend for getting to the point of embarka-
ton the great mass of tents. wagons and
food supplies for the large number of men
who are to go forward and for the ships
which are to transport them. For the
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branch is hurryng to the points on the gulf
the ships chartered by Assistant Secretary
Meixlejohn yesterday, besides the numerous
supplies necessary for the comfort of the
troops and means for the transportation of
the munitions of war ETC., overland when
Cuba is reached An order has been given
for the purchase of 10000 hammocks for
the use of the men in tropical climes. For
the feeding of the men the commissary de-
partment has made arrangements for the
purchase and shipment to gulf points, but
mostly to Tampa, of over 100000 rations,
which it is estimated will supply army
of 10000 men over thirty days, assuming
that they are given full rations during that
time 1t is probable, however, that portions
of this great quantity of supplies are in
tended for the relief of the reconcentrados
who are dying from starvation in Cuba
The arrangements of the commissary de-
partment are such that the supplies will
be shipped readily to their destination
points in the United States.
General Miles regards it as especially i'm
portant in the approaching campaign that
the armies of invasion and occupation of
Cuba be fully equipped with supplies and
the most improved machinery, for the con-
struction of roads and railroads, and also
with experts in the use of such machinery
and construction. General Roy Stone di-
rector of the Road Inquiry Bureau of the
Agricultural Department, offered his serv-
ices, and General Miles has recommended
that they be accepted. Secretary Wilson,
OF the Agricultural Department, heartily
acquiesced in the suggestions that the fa-
cilites of the Road Inquiry Bureau be ac-
corded the army, and General Stone is now
installed for temporary duty in the War
Department. The Agricultural Department
owns an outfit of road-making machinery
with which it has been experimenting, and
this outfit has been placed at the disposal
of the War Department. Nothing definite
will be done by General Stone until word
is received from Colonel Ludlow, of the
gineer corps, who is now at Tampa, and is
being consulted as to what machinery, etc..
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