The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-15
ARMY AND NAVY
FORCES AT MANILA

| The unsettled condition of affairs at Ma
| Mia makes it of interest to collect a num-
Der of disjointed facts that have been pub
| lished and arrange them so as to give the
reader an idea of the strength of the Amer
lean military and naval forces under the
command of General Otis and Admiral
| Dewey, as we'll as the distances between
Manila and the adjacent suburbs, at some
of which the insurgent forces are encamped
and which may any day be the scene of a
battle that will be historic in American
| annals. 81
General Otis has now under his command
/ A,OOO men in and around Manila of whom
1856 were reported for duty at the begin
ming of the week. Besides these there are
nearly 1000 regulars at various points en-
route for Manila, which are designed to
take the place of volunteers, who compose
large portion of General OTIS command.
1t Is probable, however, IL affairs remain
threatening, as they are at present, the vol
unteers will be retained, which will make
| the American land force at Manila about
| $1,000 men. The troops now under General
Otis-are made up of Company A, engineer
| battalion Troops c, e. G, /, X and l. of
the Fourth cavalry; Batteries G, Fl, K and
l., Third artillery; Batteries and g, Sixth
artillery; Batteries and D, California ar
| tillery; Batteries A and B, Utah artillery;
and First Wyoming battery, Fourth infan-
| try, Fourteenth infantry; Companies B, F,
I and M, of the Seventeenth infantry;
Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-third
infantry; First California, First Colorado.
First Idaho Fffty-first Iowa, Twentieth
VI;
tana First Nebraska First North Dakota,
Second Oregon, Tenth Pennsylvania, First
| South Dakota, First Tennessee, First
Washington and First Wyoming infantry
regiments. 1t will be seen that nearly all
of General Otis command is composed of
volunteer soldiers, and these have done as
good service as any body of regulars in the
| army could do.
Admiral Dewey has under his command a
| fleet of twenty-seven vessels, some of which
have not yet reached Manila These are
the Baltimore, at Iloio; Bennington and
Petrol. at Guam; Boston, Brutus, Buffalo,
Callao, Charleston, Concord, Culgoa,. Ma
Mia, Monadnock, Monocacy, Monterey
Olympia, all at Manila; Castine, near Glib
raltar, en- route; Don Juan de Austria, Man
shan, Isa de Luzon, Zafiro and Isla de
Cuba, captured Spanish vessels undergoing
| repairs at Hong Kong; Helena, near Co.
lombo, Ceylon; Iris, at Honolulu, en- route;
Oregon and Scandal, en- route; Princeton,
near Port Said, en- route, and Yorktown,
which left San Francisco January IL for
Manila. In addition to these the Solace and
Yosemite are under orders to sail at once
for Manila, while the Yankee and Prairie
are being used at Philadelphia to be sent
to Dewey if needed. This list shows mat
Admiral Dewey will have, If he has not
already, fleet that Is credit to this
country, as 1t contains some of the best
vessels in our navy. Besides these Admiral
Dewey will have a very creditable fleet of
transports, in which are the Grant, Nor
gan City, Ohio, Senator, Tacoma, Sherman,
Sheridan, Centennial, City of Pueblo, Ari-
IONA, Indiana, Newport, Panama, Pennsyl-
vania, st. Paul, Valencia, Zealandia and
Relief, hospital ship which is at New
| York under sailing orders.
In the vicinity of Manila are a good many
populous towns. The following table gives
| their names, estimated population and dis
| lance in miles from the capital: