ORDER NO. o6

HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF OCCUPATION.
Camp near Monterey, dug. is, 1917.
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Camp near Monterey, dug. is, IS47.


!. Five companies Of the 10th Infantry. under
the Colonel, will proceed to Matamoros and relieve
The Ohio regiment of volunteers now in ga rrisor
there. The Ohio regiment will then proceed tc
Brazos Island, and be held ready TO embark fol
vera Cruz. The remaining companies of the
10Th, under Lieut. Colonel, with Captain Hunts
company OF Texas Cavalry, will form the garri
son Of Camargo and its dependencies. reIiovino
the other troops now on thar duty.


II. The Indiana regiment of volunteers will
proceed to Brazos Island and will then. with the
OHIO regiment embark to Vera Cruz Brio. Gen.
Lane VIII take command of these Regiments of
the BraZos and conduct them TO their destination.


Ill. Six companies of the 10Th regiment, under
the Colonel, Will take up the line Of march for
Monterey, when they will relieve the present gar
risoh' composed OF SIX companies of the Massa-
chusetts regiment. The remaining four comma
MES, under the Lieut.. Colonel, will in like man
ner relieve the battalion OF the Massachusetts re-
glment al Cerralvo. The troops thus relieved
viii proceed 10 the Brazos, and there be concen-
trated under the command of Col. Wright.


~. The 18th regiment will proceed to the Bra
zos as soon as practicable after the companies of
the Massachusetts regiment now at Cerralvo. shall
have passed down the river.


Y. Brig. Gen. Gushing will take m the line of
march not later than tho 23d inst. with Captnio
Deos' light battery. Company B. 9TH Art0 He
will proceed to the Brazos, when he will bring nm
der his orders the 18th regiment and Mass9cbu.
setts regiment, and thence conduct his entire COM
mond Zone battery and two regimonts) to Vera
Cruz.


VI. Brig. Gen. Hopping will remain in com.
mand OF the district of the Upper Rio Grande.
and will establish his headquarters where he nav
select. Should il be found necessary to retain The
General Hospital at Mier, sufficient guard will
be furnished for its protection, and also suffi.
clent force of medical officers and attendants nonst
be detailed from the regiments which leave their
SICK. Great care will be taken to furnish descrip.
tive rolls of all attendents and patients thus de.
toched. Col. Belknap is specially charged wiki
the rigid enforcement of this order


VII. Col. Hays with his command of Texas
horse, Will march for the Brazos, and there en-
bark for Vera Cruz, in conformity with the in
structlons issued to him by the War Department.


VII. The above movements will be executed
with the least possible delay. The Quartermas.
ter's and other Staff Departments will furnish the
necessary transportation and other facilities for
the purpose.


By order Of Maj. Gen. Taylor:


W. w. S. BLISS, Asst Adi't Gen.