HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO. 
Special Orders, 1 Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. /., 
No. 58. { March 18, 1904. 
(Extract.) 
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4. The instructions of the Department Commander organiz¬ 
ing the Rio Grande expedition against hostile Moros concen¬ 
trated under Datto All, in fortifications in Seranaya Marsh and 
treatening the peace and good government in Cottabato Valley, 
are hereby confirmed and made of record as follows: 
Major General Wood, Captain Halstead Dorcy, 4th Infantry, 
aide-de-camp, Captain Charles McK. Sallzman, Signal Corps, 
and a detachment of enlisted men of the Signal Corps, and 
Company B, 17th Infantry, ( Cochran's ) with 1st Lieutenant 
Chas. J. Nelson, 17th Infantry, attached thereto for temporary 
duty, to proceed by steamer from Zamboanga to Cottabato, on 
March 5th; 
Companies M, {Allaire's) and K, ( Devore's) 23rd Infantry, 
and Troop B, 14th Cavalry, ( Crosby’s ) from Malabang, and 
Captain Gatley with one section of the 17th Battery, Field 
Artillery, from Camp Vicars, to be assembled at Cottabato 
under command of Major C. G. 7 ruitt, 23rd Infantry, 2nd 
Lieutenant S. 0 . Fuqua, 23rd Infantry, Battalion Quartermas¬ 
ter and acting as Adjutant; 
Colonel J. T. Van Orsdale and Company F, 17th Infantry, 
(Van Horn's) at Cottabato, were to be held in readiness to take 
the field; 
Major E. A. Mearns, Surgeon, Colonel J. G. Harbord, P. C., 
(Captain, util Cavalry), Captain 7 . W. Darrah, Commissary, 
U. S. Army, Chief Commissary, Captain F. R. McCoy, 3rd 
Cavalry, aide-de-camp, and 2nd Lieutenant G. Van S. Quack- 
enbush, 17th Infantry, Acting Engineer Officer, were directed 
to join the Department Commander at Cottabato on March 5th. 
