The National tribune., 1905-12-07


Light. Cogswell's Battery, Lieut.. Will
liam r. Elting; I'd H. Light, Battery G,
Lieut.. Perry Which; Ind. Light, 1st Bat
terry, Capt Lawrence Jacoby; Ind.
Light, 14th Battery, Capt. Francis W..
Morse; Ohio Light, 18th Battery, Capt.
Charles S. Rice; Sd Ind. and I'd Iowa
Batteries attached to First Division.
Troops From Pensacola.
Column from Pensacola Bay, Fla
Maj.-Gen. Frederick Steel command
ing.
First Division-Brig.- Gen. John p.
Hawkins commanding.
First Brigade-Brig.-G Gen. William A.
Pile-73d u. s. c. Inf, Lieut.-Col. Henry
c. Merriam; SD u. S. c. Inf, Col. Lad
islas L. Zulavsky; Seth U. S. c. Inf,
Lieut.-Col George E. Warrington.
Second Brigade-Col: Hiram scofield
commanding-47th U. s. c. Inf, Lieut.
Col. Ferdinand f. PEBBLES; 50th U. s.
c. Inf, Col. Charles A. Gilchrist; 51st
U. S. c. Inf, Col. A. Watson Weber.
Third Brigade-Col. Charles W. Drew
commanding-48th U. S. c. Inf, Col.
Frederick M. Crandall; 6Sth U. S. c.
Inf, Col. ]. B. Blackburn Jones
Densmore; 18th U. S. Inf, Maj. Will
liam E. Nye.
Cavalry. :. =.
Cavalry-Lucas's Division.
Previous TO March 20 the brigades Of
this command were designated, respec-
lively, the Separate Cavalry Brigade"
and Special Cavalry Expedition" Gen..
Lucas commanding the first-named.
First Brigade-Col. Morgan H. Chrys-
Ter commandments La, Lieut.-Co
Algernon S Badger; 31st Mass. (mount-
ed infantry. Lieut.-Col. Edward p. Net
Teton; I'd y. Y. Veteran, Col. Morgan
II. Chrysler, Lieut.-Col. Asa L. Quincy.
Artillery-Mass. Light I'd. Battery b,
Capt. William Marland.
First Diyfsion-Brig. -Gen. Joseph F.
Knipe.
First Brigade-Col. Joseph Karge
communicated Ind, Maj. William
II. Calkins; I'd n. j.. Lieut.. Col. p. Jones
Yorke; 4th Wis, Col Webster p Moore
Second Brigade-Col. Gilbert M. L.
Johnson commanding-10th Ind, Maj.
George w. Swallow; 18th Ind, Col. Will
Jacob Nj. Thornburg.
Artillery-Ohio Light, 14th Battery,
Capt. William c. Myers.
South Alabama.
District of South Alabama-Brig.-
Gen. T. Kilby Smith commanding
Dauphin Island-Lieut.- Byron
Kerby-3d Md. Cav. (six companies) },
Capt. Eli d. Grinder; 9th Mich. f. A.,
Cos. c, 4. F. Ii, and /. Capt. Seymour
! Howell.
Mobile Point-Lieut- Col Charles Z.
Clark-1st Mich. l.. A., Battery G.,
Lieut.. George /. Stilman; 9th Mich II.
A, Cos. b, ID and G., Maj. Harrison
Soule.
Pending the advance of Gen. Sher-
| man from Atlanta and the invasion of
Tennessee by the rebel Gen. Hood, the
available force Of the Military Division
of West Mississippi was employed in CO.
operative movements to prevent the
| rebel force "f Kirhu Smith So, 6rnss-
ing the Mississippi; in operations against
a part of Hoods communications, and
| by demonstrations on the Gulf Coast
TO prevent rcinforcements being sent
him from Alabama and Mississippi. This
/ led to dissemination of the disposal BILE
| force at several points on the Gulf
Coast and along the course of the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio Rivers as high I'D as
Paducah, Ky. AS soon as the pressure
was removed by the decisive defeat OF
Hood by Gen. Thomas these detach-
ments were gathered up as rapidly as
possible and prepared for service In
another direction. The service then con-
templated was movement from the
Gulf Coast In cooperation with one
which Gen Sherman had advised, that
Thomas had been directed to make, and
the force available for service was about
$4,000 men of all arms.
| On Feb. 3, 1865. Gen. Candy was ad-
vised from. Headquarters Of the Army
that his command would be materially
reinforced from the Army of the Cum
fberiand; that his objective point would
be Selma or Montgomery. including the
capture ofN Mobile or not. - he might