Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-05
T ROOPS TO ATTEND
Gen. Miles Order in Regard to the Chick
amauga Celebration.
The Oldest Organization fn the United
States Army-In Continuous Ex-
fstence Over a Century.


| department of the east, has issued special
| orders in regard to the coming celebration
at the Chickamauga battlefield as follows:
"In accordance with instructions of the
| lieutenant general commanding the army,
given by direction of the Secretary Of War,
| three battalions of United States troops
will be encamped on the Chickamauga
| battlefield as soon after September 1, 1895,
| as practicable, and will remain there until
| after the dedication of the National Mill
| tary Park on September 10 and 20, 1895.
'"rhe entire camp will be under the COM
| mand of Colonel ]. S. Poland, seventeenth
| infantry, who is ordered to proceed with
his regimental adjutant and quartermas-
ter to Cha ttanooga. Tenn, to select site
for the camp, comforting on arrival with
General ]. S. Fullerton, president of the
park commission.
Troops Designated.
"The troops designated for this service
are as follows:
"The regimental adjutant, band and four
companies of the sixth infantry, from
Fort Thomas. Kentucky, under command
of the major of the regiment. Captain r.
J. Gibson, assistant surgeon, one acting
hospital steward and four hospital corps
privates will be sent with these troops.
1.-The band and four companies of the
seventeenth infantry from Columbus bar
d
captain. One acting hospital steward and
three hospital corps privates will be sent
from Columbus barracks with these troops.
1.-THE regimental adjutant and band of
the third artillery from Saint Francis bar
racks Florida.
'The two batteries of the third artillery
now in camp a Fort Mcpherson, Georgia.
One acting hospital steward and three
ospital corps privates will be sent from
Fort Mcpherson with these troops; also one
hospital corps private from Fort Barran-
cas- now at Fort Mcpherson.
1.-The two batteries of the third artillery
at Jackson barracks Louisiana, under
| command of Major ]. G. Ramsay, third ar
tillery. Two hospital corps privaees will
be sent with these troops from jackson
barracks.
"The troops from each post will take
with them the necessary tentage, camp
equipage, full and undress uniforms, forty
rounds per man blank ammunition for
rifles, small supply of ball cartridges and
sufficient rations to Include three days
beyond the expected close of the camp.
Ample signal equipments and stores will
be taken by the troops from each post.
The chief quartermaster of the depart
rnent will arrange for the necessary
transportation, tentage and camp equip
age for the command.
Major j. V r. Hoff surgeon, will pro-
ceed from Governors Island, N. Y, and
Capt. R. r. Ball, assistant surgeon, from
Fort Adams, r. l., to Chickamauga, Tenn,
for duty.
1he DETERMINATIONS
The Secretary of War has issued a spe-
cial order for light battery F. fourth artil-
lery, stationed at Fort Riley, Kan, to at
tend the Chickamauga celebration. This
battery is the Oldest organization in the
army. 1t has a distinguished record, dat
ing back to January G, 177G, when 1t was
organized as the New York provincial
company of artillery, in command of Alex
ander Hamilton, who was commissioned it's
nfaf 10 TPh yraS crrn-
sequently transferred to and served to the
end of the revolutionary war n Col.
Lambs second regiment, continental corps
of artillery. This company participated in
the battles of Long Island, White Plains,
Princeton, Yorktown, Brandywine, Mon
mouth and in other engagements of the
battles in Ohio in $780, '91 and '94. 1t has
remained constantly in the service of the
United States in one organization or an
other since it was organized in 1176. 1t
regiment of artillery when that regiment
was organized, under the act of March .,
1921, and is now in command of Capt. S.
W. Taylor.
During the War of the Rebellion.
At the outbreak of the late war the bat
terry was commanded by Capt. ]. C. Penn
berton, who resigned to join the confed-
eracy and surrendered the confederate
forces at Vicksburg. The subsequent COM
AidHuSiS Ouilus the WdT were Lieut.. w.
P. Terrill, afterward brigadier general of
volunteers, who was killed at Perryville,
KY. October 8, 1862; Capt. C. L. Best,
who commanded from August 4, 1861 to
August g. 1852. when appointed chief of
artillery. twelfth corps; Lieut.. E. D. Muh-
lenberg, who commanded until September
"a 1862 from which date Lieut.. f. b.
Crosby commanded until killed at Chan
cellorsville. May 16, 1863 when Lieut. Muh-
lenberg again assumed command and re-
mained in command until the close of the
war, except from June 80, 1864, to February
1866. when the battery was in command Of
Capt. Best.
The battery served in the Army of the
Potomac until October, 1863, when it was
transferred to the Army of the Cumber-
land, and served in the artillery reserve
of that army to November, 1864, when its
strength became reduced below the mini
mum, and it was sent to New York to be
recruited.
1t participated in the engagements at
Strasburg and Winchester May, 1862; Ce-
dar mountain, August. 1882; Antietam,
September 1862, and Charlottesville and
Fredericksburg, Va, May, 1863, and in
other minor engagements.