Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — ARMY MOVES SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

ARMY MOVES SOUTH.

UNITED STATES REGULARS ADVANCE TOWARD CUBA. Federal Troops from Every Post in the United States Concentrated at Chick■manga Battle-field, Tennessee, New Orleans, Mobile and Tampa. Action by War Department. General orders were issued from the War Department late Friday afternoon directing the immediate movement of nearly the whole standing army to the Department of the Gulf. The orders applied to every regiment of regulars in the eountry, except the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Cavalry, and the Fourteenth infantry stationed in Alaska, and such heavy artillery as are on duty at the several fortifications of the seaboard. Since the civil' war no such proportion of the army has been mobilized, and the movement itself was the best evidence of the gravity of the situation, as looked upon by the president and his advisers. The determination to rendezvous the troops iu the South, where they can be acclimated to the conditions of a more tropical climate, and he within striking distance of Cuba, has been under consideration by the President and his cabinet for some time. It was until Friday, however, that the President, in view of the enorYnous expense witch would be entailed, felt justified in taking this step. When Secretary Alger returned from the cabinet meeting he at once called into conference Gen. Miles and Adjt.-Gen. Corbin, and acquainted them with the result of the cabinet’s deliverations. There were hurried consultations, in which the quartermaster general, who has charge of the transportation of the troops; the commissary general, who looks after their subsistence, and representatives in Washington of various railroads running to the South participated. The orders as finally given directed the movements of troops to the places indicated as follows: To Chickninauga battlefield: The Ist, 2d, 3d, Oth. oth and 10th regiments of cavalry and the light batteries of five regiments of artillery. To New Orleans: The Ist, 7th, Bth, 12th, 10th, 18th, 23d and 24th regiments of infantry. To Mobile: The 2d, 3d, 10th, 11th, 19th, 20th and 22d regiments of infantry. _To Tampa: The 4th, sth, Oth, 9th, 13th, 17th and 21st regiments of infantry. The department has so distributed the twenty-two regiments of infantry at convenient places on the gulf that they will be accessible for* transportation to Cuba. At Chiekainauga there will he six regiments of cnvalry and the light batteries of five regiments of artillery, at New Orleans eight regiments of infantry, at Tampa seven regiments of infantry and at Mobile seven regiments of infantry.