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Show CAVALRY COMES BACK. Ninth Regiment to Relieve the Seventh in the "West. Washington, Sept. 19. Orders will . be issued from the war department for the disposition of the five regiments of regular cavalry now at Camp Wikoff in command of Major General Wheeler. Three of them are to be sent to a camp hereafter to be designated, within 100 miles of Huntsville, Ala. The second regiment is to go to South Dakota to relieve the Eighth at the headquarters at Fort Meade, and the Ninth is to be distributed through Arizona and New Mexico to relieve the Seventh, now-stationed now-stationed in these territories. The Seventh and Eighth, upon being relieved, re-lieved, will join the three regiments from Montauk at the camp which may be selected, in the vicinity of Huntsville. Hunts-ville. Major General Wheeler will have command of the cavalry, which is to form part of the army of occupation for Cuba and Torto Rico. |