In the wake of two fruitless relocations and months of casualties, commanders finally managed to impose an effective latrine-policy.

A three-part strategy of draconian defecation-management, mass-disinfection, and flight received the Typhoid Board's imprimatur as the principal, recommended method for suppressing existing epidemics.

[3][4][5] After the declaration of war McKinley revised that arrangement and approved the organization of eight army corps, each of which was to consist of three or more divisions of three brigades each.

In mid-May the volunteers were moved to a few large unfinished camps in the South, and when they arrived only seven instead of the eight projected army corps were organized.

Expeditions also were mounted for Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, in which partial army corps provided the troops.

[12] The troops assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division at various times included the following:[3] Brigadier General George A. Garretson, U.S.V.

The troops assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, at various times were as follows:[3] Brigadier General John P. S. Gobin, U.S.V.

The troops assigned to 3rd Brigade were the following:[3] The 13th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Henry A. Coursen, Commanding, joined at Camp Alger, Va., May 19, 1898, with a strength of 36 officers and 603 enlisted men.

[21] The 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel James B. Coryell Commanding, joined at Camp Alger, Va., May 19, 1898, with a strength of 36 officers and 603 men.

[22] The 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Theodore F. Hoffmann Commanding, joined at Camp Alger, Va., May 18, 1898, with the strength of 41 officers and 770 men.

[23] The 15th Regiment Minnesota, Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Harry A. Leonhaeuser, Commanding, joined at Camp Meade, Pa., September 18, 1898, with a strength of 46 officers and 1,256 enlisted men.

The troops assigned to the 1st Brigade were:[3] Colonel John W. Schall, 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry took command by May 31, 1898.

The establishment of Camp Alger is justifiable upon the report as to the suitableness of the site, but considering the scarcity of water and the want of facilities for bathing, we are of opinion that it was very undesirable, and was not abandoned too soon.

[4][36] On August 2, 1898, the 2nd Division of the Second Corps marched to Thoroughfare Gap, 80 miles distant, and remained in camp there for about one month.

The Separate Brigade, 3rd Division 2d Army Corps, under command of Brigadier General Henry M. Duffield, left Camp Alger June 15, 1898.

The Second Brigade, First Division of the Second Army Corps, commanded by Brigadier General George A. Garretson, left Camp Alger July 5, 1898.

A. H. Weber, Commanding, joined at Camp Meade, Pa., August 12, 1898, with a strength of 7 officers and 180 enlisted men.

Young, U.S. Vols, Commanding Second Army Corps, who had a leadership role in the operations around Santiago.

Photographs of the camp can be view in the Greenville County Library System digital collections.

[47][48] When the land forces of the United States are organized into army corps, divisions, and brigades, the same will be designated by the following symbols, flags, and pennants, and badges, made according to description and designs in the office of the Quartermaster-General: Second Corps, a four-leaf clover.

[49][50] The corps symbol is worn by enlisted men in the form of a small badge on the front of the campaign hat or in the center of the crown or the forage cap, and upon the left breast by officers.