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asptcToday the Last Day at This Post ofThe Thunder Organization.Signal Detachment Left’-Oth-'ilarresISj; cai toer Department Officials FollowSoon—Post News,loaIter A, FoCgei for thlliei Nilt;SToday is the last day that Major Dil* lenbaek and his men will spend in San Antonio. They have about completed the work of loading up and will leave for Galveston this afternoon at 5 o'clock, when they will give up warm ^ barracks for tents on the seashore forsometime to come.JoiatThe party will j mfemake up quite a train load, will require three flatMoears on 801*• ifllff}which the guns and caissons will beJloaded, three horse cars, three bag-1 gage cars, two tourist sleeping cars and | w0 one Pullman sleeping car. f All day yesterday and today the packing of effects was going on. The men were looging over their accoutrements and putting them in order. The of- I cal personal and camp equipage. The guns and caissons were being put in readiness to load. ’ - .prenoigvscolhisHeanpelthibleThe battery is composed of four guns, four caissons, bettery wagons, ^ sixty | an horses, seventy-six men and four officers^1 k * -At the post headquarters yesterday commanding officer, adjutant and quartermaster and a host of clerks and orderlies were busy with the official work looking to the removal.Speaking of the removal, a prominent officer of the post said: ; ^ wl; V“The order removing the light artillery from the Interior to the coast has been exepcted for some time. The batteries will take their guns, which means that they go with the possibility of fighting. If they had not taken their guns it would mean that they •were going to man the new guns and for coast I Hi defense purposes only, i The move is I ni€ evidently a permanent: one, and theIMefroVilt;chiterlagLabo(places left by the batteries will be taken MeBayoiTotruby the new men.‘Is it generally supposed among offi-1 m, cers that this concentration of troops J on coast means fight?” was asked.“It certainly looks that way. The fact that the president has Withheld the information to be conveyed by the Maine board of inquiry is significant.If a war is unavoidable the regular armywill have to be relrtforoed by volun-leers. To get volunteers with enthu- ^ siasm and dispatch it is necessary for Qa the people to realize fully that the ne- saj eessity is there, and for a certain amount of popular indignation., The American people are now properly indignant, and if war were to be declared there would be no difficulty in enlisting enough volunteers for the purposes of the War department, I think the army generally is looking for a ‘scrap’ and|,w| hopes 1t will come. I think everythingtends to that at present.bommthlt;ly.fteretlt;iniwiDlt;i39The removal of the battery will be fol-► | lowed closely by the removal of Department headquarters, which next Friday night will have been entirely gone.| The signal corps left today according to the following order issued by Colonel | Et| lt;'arpen^^;j%plerdayf;5.;# ;“In compliance with instructions from headquarters. Department of the South,[ J dated, March 16, 1898, the following named enlisted men of the Department J ^ Signal detachment will proceed tomor-| row, the 19th Instant, en route to Fort * McPherson, Ga., where they will report i upon arrival to the comjnandlng officer I for assignment for quarters and rations j se awaiting further orders from Depart-f- ment headquarters; tl “Corporal R. It. Young, troop G. Fifth I vt 1 cavalry in charge; Private Max Delker, | to troop A, Fifth cavalry; Private R. R. Stockton, troop D, Fifth cavalry; Private W. S. Eby, troop K, Fifth cavalry; Private B. C. Frosan, company A. Eighteenth infantry; Private P. F,IR(lIstCiH| Clark, company D, Eighteenth infan-1 I try; Private E. J. Cuzzort, company E, | H*tvMRMSlt;MInfantry; Private C, De Kast. company F, Eighteenth infantry; I FiPrivate E. B, ordham, company B, siI Twenty-third infantry; Private J. S. I hlt; Holmes, company G, Twenty-third Infantry; Private T. E. Boyer, company E, Twenty-third infantry; Private J. D. Latimer, company G, Twenty-third Infantry; Private R. Henry, company H. Twenty-third infantry,’*The signal corps will be followed to-K night by Major Francis Dodge, chief paymaster of the department; Liept, Samuel Reber, chief signal officer, and | et Mr. Eben Dodge, clerk In the paymaster’s department. vThe remalnedr of the Department headquarters clerks and officers willleave as follows:Tomorrow noon—Frank Buss, chief clerk of the adjutant general;* office; Michael Cleary, transportation agent of the Quartermaster’* department; Mr. Stanford and Mr. Wallace, signal department; Wm. Wentworth and Mr.* | Turner, messengers.Tomorrow night—Dr. Albert Fensch, clerk chief surgeon’s office; A. M, Talbot, signal department; P, B. Harm, August Resch, J. W, Thompson, clerkk adjutant general’s office, and Paul Kroeber, draughtsman, adjutant general’s office. HMonday noon—Lieut. Col, Wm. P. Hall, adjutant general of the department; Major E. E. Dravo, chief of commissary department; Capt. Frank L. Dodds, judge advocate, and Michael *' I Travers, clerk t ommissiary depart-ment.Tuesday night—R. 8. Kinney and J.B. Frosh clerks, quartermaster’s de-tt j partment.J. B. Eemery and Frank Morgan, clerks, adjutant general’s office; H. J. Rick, clerk judge advocate’s office, and Wm. Holt, clerk commissary depart-jti ment, will not leave for several days,atSl-t,ryl-meiwrrStelno:Cia:a1Aflt;siwhtlit:t
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San Antonio Daily Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Mar 19, 1898
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