OTIS CREATES MILLER'S ILOILO EXPEDITION

General Orders, No. 39

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC AND EIGHT ARMY CORPS
Manila, P.I., December 24, 1898

I. Brigadier General Marcus P. Miller, U.S. Volunteers, is assigned to the command of the following designated troops, viz:

Light Battery G, 6th U.S. Artillery,
18th U.S. Infantry,
51st Iowa Volunteer Infantry,

and will proceed with them to Iloilo, Island of Panay, by transports
Newport,
Arizona and
Pennsylvania,
under such Naval escort as the Rear Admiral Commanding the Asiatic Squadron may furnish him,
and there execute the special instructions he will receive from these headquarters.

These troops will constitute a separate brigade, within the meaning of the 73d Article of War, to be known and designated as the First Separate Brigade of the 8th Army Corps. They will be equipped and supplied as orders already and hereafter to be issued indicate.

The following named officers will constitue the staff of the First Separate Brigade of the 8th Army Corps:

First Lieutenant C. G. Woodward, 3d U.S. Artillery, Aid, Acting Assistant Adjutant General,

Captain John B. Jefferey, U.S. Volunteers, Quartermaster,

Captain C. R. Krauthoff, Commissary of Subsistence, U.S. Volunteers, Commissary,

Major E. R. Morris, Brigade Surgeon, U.S. Volunteers, Chief Surgeon.

II. The Headquarters and 2d Battalion of the 1st Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, are relieved from duty with the Provost Guard of Manila and will proceed to Cavite, P.I., and there take station.

Colonel William C. Smith, of that regiment, is assigned to the command of the Cavite District, relieving Colonel D. D. Van Valzah, 18th U.S. Infantry, who has been designated for service in another section of the Philippine Islands.

The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

III. Captain William J. Whitthorne, 1st Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, is hereby appointed Judge of the Inferior Provost Court at Cavite, and will relieve from the duties of that position Captain R. F. Bates, 18th U.S. Infantry. He will hold sessions of the Court at such times and places as may be directed by the Commanding Officer at that point. The jurisdiction of the Court, its methods of procedure and reports of proceedings will continue as defined in General Orders No. 28, of November 5th, last, Headquarters Department of the Pacific and 8th Army Corps.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL OTIS:

THOMAS H. BARRY,
Assistant Adjutant General