August 28, 1845
Military Movements. — We learn from a
Pensacola correspondent that companies A, E. and K, of the 7th
Regiment of Infantry, left that harbor Sunday evening, the 24th
inst., in the steamer Creole for Aransas Bay, Texas. Maj. Brown,
commanding the 7th Regiment of Infantry, accompanied them.
The officers belonging to the command are brevet Major G. J. Rains;
Captains D. S. Miles, D. P. Whiting; 1st Lieutenants A.
Montgomery, J. R. Scott; 2d Lieutenants Hayman, Earl Vandorn; brev. 2d
Lieutenants F. Gardner, J. M. henry. – Company D, Captain R. H. Ross,
will join the Regiment in Texas, as soon as it is relieved by company F,
1st Artillery, now on its way to Pensacola.
The Herald, at St. Augustine, publishes
the following information in relation to the removal of U. S. troops
from that State:
The 8th Regiment, stationed at
this post, Fort Brooke, (Tampa Bay,) and Key west, have received orders
to proceed to Aransas Bay, Texas. Companies A, Gwynn’s; E, McKavitt’s;
G, Worth’s; and I, Hill’s, are already embarked for their destination.
Gen. Worth proceeds across the country to
Tampa, at which point the regiment is to rendezvous, and embark in
transports ordered from the North. The officers who embark at this post
are, Capts. Worth, McKavitt, and Hill; Lieuts. Gates, Smith, Lee,
Sheppard, Jordan, Longstreet and Wood.
The Richmond, Va., Enquirer of the 20th
inst., mentions that the barque Bachelor, Capt. Horton, lying in that
port, has been chartered by the United States Government to take troops
to Texas. She was to leave in the course of a few days for Old Point
Comfort, where the troops were to embark, and ammunition and stores to
be taken on board.
The Pensacola Gazette states that the
following named officers of the staff have been directed to report to
Gen. Taylor in Texas:
Capt. Geo. D. Ramsey, Ordnance Department
Capt. T. J. Crain, Topographical Engineers
Capt. J. Sanders, Corps of Engineers
1st Lieut. J. M. Scarritt, Corps
of Engineers
2d Lieut. C. P. Kingsbury, Ordnance
Brevet 2d Lieut. T. J. Word, top. Engineers
It is announced in a New York paper that
there is no foundation for the rumor that the two companies of artillery
now encamped at Governor’s Island have been ordered to Texas. — They are
to garrison Fort Independence, at which place fifty guns are to be mounted
immediately.
The taking on board of the ship Hermann, the
troops, horses, baggage, &c., of Maj. Ringgold’s Artillery, lately
stationed at Fort McHenry, and under orders for Texas, was completed on
the evening of the 19th inst., and the ship was to start for
her destination the next day.
Source: The Daily Picayune, August
28, 1845, p. 2, col. 2.
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