THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 340 Cavalry ZKotsioh.— Major-Gen. Joseph Wheelercommanding,'withGen. S. B. M. Youngattached. The force is dismounted. ist U.S. Cavalry,8 troops 4°° 3rd U.S. Cavalry, 8 troops 4°° sithU.S. Cavalry, 8 troops 4°° 9th U.S. Cavalry, 8 troops 4°° 10thU.S. Cavalry, 8 troops 4°° ist U.S. Volunteer Cavalry 4°° Artillciv. Batteries Eand K ist Light Artillery, U.S.A. . 150 Batteries A andF 2nd Light Artillery, U.S.A. 150 Batteries G and H 4th Heavy Artillery, U.S.A. . 150 Engineers.— Gen. William Ludlow commanding.

CompaniesC and Eof the battalion of Engineers, U.S.A. . . " ■ ... 200 The same difficulty led to the artillery going to Cuba very short of horses, and this deficiency had very serious consequences.

Itis very hard to understand why this deficiency of transport ever existed. The invasion of Cuba had been from the first regarded as likely to be the chief operation of the war;the government had unlimited credit, and had purchased for use as auxiliary cruisers a number of steamersat home andabroad;there wasnothing to prevent further purchases, and the equipment of the ships was a mere matter of issuing orders and accepting contracts. Yetby the endof May there were only thirty-five transports assembled FORTIFIED HOUSE ON THE 1'ROCHA, CUBA.

This gives a strength of 23,000 men, with thirty-six guns. There were subsequently added to the 5thCorps during the operations a brigade under General Duffield,made up of two regiments of Michigan Volunteers, the 33rd and 34th,withthe 9th Massachusetts Volunteers, each of the three regiments being 1,000 strong. This made the total force assigned to General Shatter 26,000.

atTampa, and some of the armed cruisers had to be detailedfor the work.

In the first days of June the transports at Tampa were loaded up with stores, guns, waggons,mules, and other impedimenta of the invading army. This work was,however,carried out inveryamateur fashion. Someof thenewlyappointed commissaries who superintended it arranged the cargoes as if they were made upof mere merchandise that could be quietly sorted out andcollected on the quays andin the warehouses of some peaceful port. The store equipment of an army have to be packed away so that what is first wanted goes in last and comes out first,and so that, when the moment foraction arrives,something ofeverythingneeded may be at hand, not an enormous supply ol one commodity and little or nothingof another that But there were not transports available to embark at one time more than it>,ooomen, and even this could only be done by leaving most of the horses behind at Tampa;so that General Wheeler's cavalry division had to take the field as infantry, and even the ist U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, Roosevelt's Rough Riders, most of whom werespecially recruitedfor their cow-boy skill in horsemanship, had to tramp on foot.