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August 22, 1845
MILITARY Movements. — The departure of the
Alabama yesterday for Texas wrought up the martial ardor and excitement
of our citizens to a high pitch. Nothing else was talked of during the
day; passengers were running hither and thither, completing their
preparations for the expedition, and the friends of the troops, and
especially of the volunteers from this city, crowded to the scene of
embarkation, to take leave of them and wish them “God speed” in their
patriotic enterprise.
We cannot compute the numbers who went
down to the barracks on these friendly offices, or who were attracted
thither by curiosity to see so large and unusual an armed force set
forth on a warlike expedition. It was very large indeed, and the whole
were animated with a zeal that must have still further inflamed the
patriotic ardor of the troops. We have merely room for an enumeration
of the officers, with their commands, who embarked. The steamer got
under way late last evening.
And first came Major Gally’s and Capt.
Forno’s companies of Volunteer Artillerists – the former consisting of
123 men and the latter of 100 men.
Besides Maj. Gally’s and Capt. Forno’s
companies, five companies of the 7th regiment of U. S.
Infantry, viz:
Comp. B — Capt. Francis Lee and Lt.
Dana..........................................38 men
“ C — “ Holmes and Lt.
Humber.............................................42 men
“ F — Lt. Britton and Lt.
Gantt.....................................................40 men
“ H — Capt. Hawkins and Lt. J. M.
Jones.....................................39 men
“ I — “ Moore and Lt.
_______________............................41 men
Lt. Hanson, commanding a detachment of
.............................................14 men
Lt. Gatlin, with non.com. Staff and band,
and Surgeon Craig.
Other Officers, ordered to join
the Army in Texas: — Capt. Cotton, 3d
Infantry; Lieut. Searritt, Corps of Engineers; Lieut. Kingsbury,
Ordnance; Lieut. Shepherd, 2d Infantry; Lieut. Braman, 4th
Infantry; and Surgeon Wharton.
The following officers are left in charge
of the posts in the vicinity: — Lieut. Strong, Fort Pike; Lieut.
Henshaw, Fort Wood; Lieut. Paul, N. O. barracks. Major Seawell, Lieut.
Hopson, Lieut. Page, and Company G of the 7th Infantry, form
a guard for the Baton Rouge arsenal.
We are glad to be corrected in our statement
of yesterday that Capt. Miles was unsuccessful in endeavoring to charter a
steamboat for the Government. He succeeded in securing the steamboat
Creole, Capt. Hiern, which has just been thoroughly overhauled and
repaired. She will be rigged with a mast, as when she came out from New
York. Tom-morrow she sails for Pensacola, and on Monday from that port
for her destination in Texas. She will take over thirteen officers, one
hundred and fifty men, six horses, with military stores, &c.
From the Mobile Herald and Tribune we learn
that on Tuesday last $100,000 left that city in charge of Purser S.
Ramsey, of the Navy Yard at Pensacola, on board the pilot-boat Relief, for
the use of the Hom Squadron, now concentrated in the Gulf.
Maj. Ringgold’s corps of U. S. flying
Artillery, at Fort McHenry, have received orders to embark for Matagorda,
Texas, as soon as practicable. The ship Hermann has been chartered for
the transportation of the corps, and was to sail as soon as the necessary
arrangements could be made.
Source: The Daily
Picayune, August 22, 1845, p. 2, col. 2.
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