The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-26
TROOPS AWAIT TRANSPORTS.
NEARLY 5000 MEN ARRIVE AT
NEWPORT NEWS.

NEW fONI NEWss
So Many Not Seen I'm the Town since
the Civil War-SecOnd Brigade or
the First Army Corps From Chick
amaugn and Five Troops of CavaI-
~ From Camp AIger Under Dog
Tents-Gen. Brooke Now Quartered
atA HoteI-seven Batteries Going
with Expedition.
Newport News, Va, July 25.-Not since
the stirring days of the sixties. when the
North was fghting under the Stars and
Stripes to the tune of the Star Spangled
Banner" and the South under the stars
and Bars, to the strains of Dixie" have
there been as many troops in Newport
News or this vicinity as are now in camp
beyond the works of the Newport News
Ship Building and Dry Dock Company,
waiting to go aboard transports TO be
taken TO the gem OF the Antilles-Porto
Rico-where they VIII strike one of SPANS
richest possessions in the western hem
isphere, in order that IL may become a
free and Independent republic or part OF
the United States, or be held as the guar
antee of a war indemnify.
Incoming trains during the last thirty
six hours have brought nearly 6,0O0 troops
to this city. This includes the Second
Brigade of the First Army Corps in COM
mand OF Brig. Gen. Hams from Chicka-
mauga Park, Tennessee, and five troops
of cavalry from Camp Alger.
The first train reached the city at noon
Sunday. and from that time on till late
yesterday afternoon section. followed Sec
ton.
The train stopped within few hundred
yards of tho camp ground, and fast as
the troops arrived they were marched to
the grounds, where they pitched dog tents
and made themselves comfortable.
Gen. Hams brigade is composed Of the
Third Illinois, Col Bennett; Fourth Ohio.
Col. Colt, ard Fourth Pennsylvania, Col.
Case. which arrived In the order named-
The regiment arrived in battalions of three
trains each.
The First Battalion Of the Third Illinois
Regiment reached the city Sunday Short
ly after u O'Clock, but IL was not until
o'clock this afternoon that the Third
Battery of the Pennsylvania regiment
brought up The rear.
Meantime, the five troops of cavalry ar
rived from Camp Alger. Troops A and O
Of New York reaching the city Sunday
afternoon, followed this morning by troops
A, b, and G of Pennsylvania. All of these
troops went into camp.
Mai. Gen. Brookes special train, which
left Chlckamauga Sunday afternoon with
the commander of the First Army Corps
and his staff, pulled in at 2:30 this after
noon, ana Gen. Brooke Immediately re-
paired TO the Warwick Hotel, where ho
will remain until he sails for Porto Rico
on the auxiliary cruiser St. Louis
The general was enthusiastically re-
celved when he put foot In the city.
The last train to arrive that had on
board troops was the one bringing the
brigade hospital corps from Chlckamauga,
which included $50 men, and the train ar
rived late this evening with the ambulance
wagons.
light tomorrow morning, when the signal
corps will arrive at II O'clock. -Four bat
terles of light artillery will arrive from
Chickamauga. They are Battery A. IllL-
nois; Battery =, Pennsylvania Battery A,
Missouri, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana
Battery.
orders were received at Camp Warbur-
ton this afternoon directing Batteries Al
and G, Pennsylvania National GuaRd, to
be ready to leave with this expedition.
These two batteries have been stationed
here since May 6, having been ordered to
Newport News TO protect the battleships
Illinois, Kearsarge and Kentucky now un-
der course of construction. Battery A is
commanded by Capt Barclay Warburton
Of Philadelphia, son-in-law OF John Wana-
maker. Ii is probable that all seven Of the
batteries will leave on the same trans
port.
Gen. Hams brigade will begin to em-
bark early tomorrow morning.
The transports Massachusetts,, Roumanla
and City OF Washington are now at them
piers taking on provisions.
The auxiliary cruiser St. Louis Is ex-
pected to come up Hampton Roads to-mor-
row morning, and 1t is probable that the
vesseltw will sail In the afternoon with Gen.
Brook9 and his staff and 1900 troops.
The SC. Paul is expected to steam into
port tomorrow morning from New York.
She will also take on board troops.