The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-19
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 Washington, July 1S.-After three days consultation between the presi- Brooke, during which there was fre quent communication with General Miles at Siboney, the details of the Por- to Rican expedition were perfected and the expedition itself was gotten under way, General Miles, who is to command it, sailing to-day with some artillery and troops for Porto Rico on the cruis- CT Yale, to be followed quickly by an army of about three thousand men. There are some notable differences be- tween the places for this expedition and those for the stately naval pageant that sailed away from Tampa under General shafter's command to attack Santiago.
 First, there will be practically no na- val conveys; the navy department has declared that they are unecessary; that there is not a Spanish warship in the West Indies that dare thrust it's bow out of port. In the second place, the expedition does not start from one point, but will be divided among sev- eral ports, thus preventing the tremen- dous congestion encountered at Tampa in the effort to start the big fleet. Lastly, there will be no effort made to get the ships away together, but the transports will be allowed to find their own way to their destination without concerted movements. General Brooke will be the senior officer in Miles com- mand, and upon him will fall the re- sponsibility for the execution of the de- tails of his superior's plans. Porto Rico is eight hundred miles from Sib- oney It is estimated that General Miles should arrive by Wednesday night at the point selected for the land- ing and will hoist the American flag at once over Porto Rican soil. The point chosen for his landing is kept secret, as the general must land before the full body of the expedition is at hand, and it is consequently not desirable that the enemy should be able to assemble su- perior force to meet him.
 The Charleston troops are the First brigade of the First division of the First army corps and are commanded by Brigadier General George H. Ernst. They will accompany General Miles. The purpose of Secretary Alger is to make the Porto Rican campaign a short one. An overwhelming force will befhrown upon the island and it is pos sible that a bloodless victory will be achieved when the Spanish become con- yinced that they have no reasonable hope to resist successfully. The expe- dition is to comprise 30,00O men at the start and it will soon be swelled to 40,- 900 men, and, if necessary, to 10000. The equipment of the volunteer forces have now progressed so well as to war rant the statement that that number of men can be ready for service in Por- to Rico within very short time. The entire body of troops at Tampa will be taken, numbering about 1,3000 men and including lot of heavy and light ar tillery under command of General Rodgers.
 The expedition will be particularly strong in artillery, as some of that at Santiago, commanded by General Ran dolph, is to be drawn upon. The Tam pa troops are known as the Fourth corps, under Major General Coppinger, comprising the second division under Brigadier General Simon Snyder and made up of the First brigade, Brigadier General Schwan, Eleventh and Nine teenth United States infantry; Second brigade, Brigadier General Carpenter, Second New York and Fifth Maryland; i; Third brigade, Brigadier General Hale, Third Pennsylvania, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana and First Ohio, third division, Brigadier General Kline commanding, First brigade, Colonel c. l.. Kennan, Fifth Ohio, First Florida and Thirty-second Michigan; Second brigade, Brigadier General Lincoln, Sixty-ninth New York, Third Ohio and second Georgia; the provisional cavalry brigade, Colonel Moves, Fifth United states and attachments of First, Sec and. Third, Sixth and Tenth United states cavalry and eight troops of Rough Riders; artillery brigade, Gener-