New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-10
WHAT TROOPS LEFT IA MPA.

WHAT TROOPS LEFT TAMPA.
HOW GENERAL SKATERS COMMAND
WAS CONSTRUCTORS
WHICH CARRIED THEM.
Tampa. Fla. June 6 (special). a month
there had been rumors here OF the immediate
ernbarkation OF the Army The first official
step however was the issuance Of the following
order.
Headquarters Fifth Army Corpsso
Tampa. Fla. May 81, ISso.,
General Orders No The following troops VIII
on board transports upon notification from these
First~The Fifth Army Corps
Second The battalion OF engineers
Third-The detachment OF the signal corps
lerted by IN. commsnding general Of the cavalry
DIVISION in accordance with infructiohs p'eN'o"S'
Fifh-Four batteries o. list artillery k 10 c,p De
commanded by major 10 be elected 9y tne COIN
Sixth~Two batteries OF heavy artillery. to De So
fa erI 0 Sn f Mn Eight Siege guns and eight
seventh~The battalion Of engineers: the infantry
and cavalry will he supplied with Ave hundred
rounds q ammuniton per man man IN addition to the
fourteen days nod rations now on hand ten days
%inth@The minimum allowance Of tentage and
baggage as prescribed In General orders No -.
AdjUtant- Generals Office current SERIES VIII De
TenhIn addition to the ra2 s sneGiae 9T in P2T
acrlrh g Of this order. the chlef comm -dIE W.
provide sixty days field rations Tor the entire
ter 10 be stored carefully Piled am coVfI.a,t w" ~
be ef In camp IN charge 81 - conn ili ,,,,,,rs
Whirr here are no recruits available the neces-
az travel rations VIII be drawn at once by
tho several commands. as indlca'cl ~ pa 'h'"P" "
BY command Of Maior-'ETneIT"I vS?cGfIiEpvAND.
Assistant AdJu'ant-GeneraL
HOW THE FIFTH CORPS Is MADE Up
The Firth Army Corps was constituted rs fol-
lows on May - IN accordance with General
orders No u:
Tth Army 1NHjor,Gener oo,H Wi na'an
First Division Br gadief-6enerai JACOB J. hc"t'
tinted states Volunteers commanding a.,
,n,in,ry ronandng s,S tinted states Infantry,
ION t-aitcd states Infantry and list Ne"-fork VOL
second Bre3ie- Colonel r P. PEARSON loth In
.snify. commanding ION .m1 G o. ni,ed StaiSs
THri 'Rrigad.-Colonel Alfred 7 Smith. 18Th In
,antry commanding. 18Th tnit'a states infantry,
Oh United states Infantry and 4tn mixed states
scraI' Division Pr-gadier- General Adna r chat
zee United states Volunteers. commanding
& HsaesCs9ioge s ya q1es saes 'i rnfanry
XII United states Infantry and "a Massachusetts,
aSi sadc ca'oD;i R9eer I g,,Id s i, IN n
~ United states Infantry and 9th United states
ln Il, p.,.,,. co,o,o, Andrew. 1,,h IN
Thl,d srlgaaed I'm rneG States nanry
I'm United States Infantry and l7ih United states
Infantry.
This included all the Regular forces IN Tampa.
The rest 81 the volunteers in Florida were as
signed to the seventh Army Corps. Major-Gen-
eral FI,zhugh Lee commanding The Firth
Corps was Increased. however in accordance
with the following;
Headquarters Fifth Army corps,
Tampa. fla June g. ls9S
Brigade. General simon snyder. Tinted States
follows, ard assigned iernporariiy to ihc f'inh
Tirst Rrgnde- Brieadler-General Guy Y. Henry
d m''v vo,,o,ssr Inf,nfry I'd OHIO Volunteer In
fan,ry and 9TH ONO volunteer lnraniry,, c...
YORK vountGer in,%n'.y IA ~ r., S,ryanS VOC
Tr'rd Hrsade Brgadier-Gencral r II. Hall
V"iurf.er Infantr, 18th Indiana Volunteer In
fsniry and I'd Penn lyania I9un,cer infantry
s' command OF M'''' 3 = M''ciERNAND
orc,,l Assistant Aijuiant- General.
TROOPS AND TROOP SHIPS
n, ,bes. regiments the Sd and 9Th Ohio and
.he poi Michigan had originally been In the sew
.r.h Corps and the rest had arrived In Tampa
after the institution ~ the Firth Corps. Later
Oh. orders relative to tho cavalry were modified
40 that the best men In each regiment here
shou,a accompany the expedition. From forty
10 nfty-hve men OF each troop were chosen from
Tho following cavalry regiments: 1st ID. 9th 9th
md ION Regulars. and let Volunteers Trough
Riders). The "a Cavalry arrived from Moo'e
,ust before the army sailed.
II was estimated at headquarters that the
TRANSPORTS carried 2J.20O men. There were
,wenty-seven regiments Of infantry. Nearly the
full strength Of the volunteers was taken. per-
hans seventy-fve men To company. The
eleven regiments would thus send nearly ten
thousand men. All the recent recruits or the
Regulars were left behind, the number going
approximating sixty to company In the SIX
teen REGIMENTS OF Regulars there were thus
about eleven thousand five hundred men who
went on the transports. The cavalry numbered
q hout twenty four hundred. II was dsmounted
The artillery, signal corps and engineers brought
the total up TO the figure mentioned
The conVoys were the Helena. the bancroft
and the Castine. and the converted revenue cut
ters Morrell and Window. Each transport had
a number painted on her bow and her smoke
stack These numbers used In signalling
instead Of the names OF the ships. one man
from tn. Signal Corps was on each vessel '"n-
oral Shafter and his stan and the representa-
tives of foreign armies the Seguranca
the flagship on the ohyette were the news
nauer Correspondents. Following were these
TRANSPORTS. Inc tOndl, INV EflhlH' NV ''' .'i'''
cos the Concho, the Rio Grande and the Leona
OF the Mallory Line; the Gussie and the whitney
Of the Southern Pacific Company the Allegheny.
.he berkshire and the Decatur II. Miller or Tho
Merchants and Miners Line, OF Baltimore, the
Florida and the Olivette Of the Plant Line; the
Vicilancia the Seguranca. the orlzaba, the lu-
catan the Seneca, the Saratoga and the cry
az Washington OF the Ward Line; the Cherokee
and the Iroquois, OF the Clyde Line: the Miami
and the Santiago -,,..
For several weeks ammunition ana supplies
had bcen loaded on the transports. The Held
and Siege artillery was not put on board until
the end OF last week. Some troops went aboard
Monday and most Of the horses
pEEI-sEn TO DEFEND AN AMERICAN