Secretary Alger At Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Fia., Sept. 27.- Secretary of War Alger, Surgeon General Sternberg, General Ludlngton, and Major Hopkins, military aid of the war department, arrlved in the city at 9:30 In the morning. They were met at the station by General Pitzhugh Lee and staff and driven to the Windsor hotel under the personal escort of Colonel Torrey and hls rough riders. Shortly after 10 o'clock they made a visit to the First divisiĆ³n hospital, inspecting carefully every detail both in and around the larg-e tents. After an hour spent here they drove to the ground formerly occupied by the Second Illinois as a parade grou-nd, and here the secretary and his party and General Lee reviewed the First and Second divisions of the Seventh corps.
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