Military Movements. — The steamboat
Cincinnati arrived at Pensacola on the 19th instant, from
Charleston, with two companies of U. S. Artillery on board, en
route for the Bay of Aransas. The Democrat furnishes the
following list of the officers on board: —
Captain M. Burke, commanding;
Surgeon Hawkins, U. S. Army;
Capt. G. Taylor;
Lieuts. Gilham, Churchill, Ayres and
Kilbourn;
Capt. D. Perkins, Sutler.
The Democrat states that Gen. Worth left
Tampa Bay on the 12th inst., on board the ship Kalamazoo,
with six companies of Infantry for Aransas.
Company D, of the 7th Infantry,
left Fort Pickens, Pensacola, on the 16th inst., for Corpus
Christi, to join their regiment, under Major Brown. Officers — Capt. R.
H. Ross, 2d Lieut. L. McLaws, and Brevet 2d Lieut. W. K. Van Bokkelen.
The following is a list of the officers of
company F, 1st regiment of Artillery, which arrived at Fort
Pickens on the 4th inst., from Newport, R. I.: Capt. George
Newman, 1st Lieut. W. H. French, 2d Lieut. John M. Brannam.
Companies A and B of the 5th
Infantry, heretofore stationed at Fort Wilkins, on Lake Superior,
arrived at Detroit on the 6th inst., in the steamboat
Constitution, on their way to Texas. The officers are – Capt. Clary,
Lieuts. Ruggles, Stevenson, Geisse, Brooke and Howe. They are to be
joined, says the Detroit Advertiser, by the three companies from
Mackinaw and the Sault Ste. Marie, and then proceed on their way to
Texas. On reaching their destination in Texas they will have travelled
at least 2500 miles!
Source: The Daily Picayune,
September 23, 1845, p. 2, col. 2.
