Evening journal., 1898-08-04
WILL GO TO PORTO RICO
Delaware Regiment at Last
Receives Moving Orders.
MEN DELIGHTED AT PROSPECT

WILL BELONG TO GENERAL
WlADE'S DIVISION AND WILL BE
SENT WITH AS LITTLE DELAY
AS POSSIBLE.
1t has been definitely determined
that General Wade's division shall be
sent to Porto Rico with as little de
lay as possible, and the orders were is
sued yesterday by the adjutant- general
assigning eighteen regiments for this
service. These troops have been form
ed into six brlgades, each brigade 10
be composed OF three regiments. There
has been considerable discomfort
among those troops who have been re-
tained in camps OF instruction, and
the most earnest efforts have been
made by the representatives of the
several states to secure orders assign
ing their troops to active service I'm
Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines.
The orders issued yesterday, forming
Wade's division, seem to have been
directed to meet the demands of the
states. TAis division will be composed
of troops from eighteen states, namely:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Rhoe Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryiandi Vir-
glnia. West Virginia, North
Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Iowa, Tennessee and
Texas. The quartermaster's depart
ment has been ordered to secure the
necessary vessels for the transporta-
tion OF these troops as speedily as
possible, and it is expected that they
will be ready for embarkatlon within
the next two weeks.
The ful text of the order forming
the division for General Wade is as
follows:
War Department, Adiutant-Generai's 3
Office, Washington, August 2, 1898.
General Order, No. -.
The commanding officers of the fol-
lowing regiments United States Volun-
teer infantry will report to Major
General J. f. Wade, u. S. Volunteers,
War Department, Washington, D G.,
by telegraph, for instructions and or
ders:
First Rhode Island, First North
Carolina, First New Hampshire, First
New Jersey, Second Texas First
Maine, Fourth Missouri, First Ala
bama, First Vermont, First West Vir-
glnia, First Connecticut, Third Tennes-
see, Twenty-second New York, First
Arkansas, Fifty-second Iowa, Third
Virginia. First Delaware and First
Maryland.
These regiments will be organized
into brlgades, ais follows:
First Brigade-First Rhode Island
Fourth Missouri, Twenty-second New
York.
Second Brigade-First North Caro-
lima, First Alabama, First Arkansas.
Third Brigade-First New Hamp
shire, First Vermont, Fifty-secont
iowa.
Fourth Brigade-First New jersey
First west Virginia, Third Virginia.
Fifth Brlgade-Second Texas, Flrs
Connecticut, First Delaware.
Sixth Brigade-First Maine, Thir'
Tennessee, First Maryland
Colonel I. Pusey Wickersham re
ceived orders last night from the wa
Department to have the regiment read.
to start Immediately to Newport News
where It will go from there by trans
ports 10 Porto Rico. No things couls
have been received with more JOY THAI
the order to move For the past tw
months efforts have been made am
THE boys nave been longing to g
away. It is said the regimental quar-
termaster has only rations enough 70
five days, SO they won't be detained 2.
THAT account.
Yesterday morning the first an
third battallons had battalion drill
and the second had company and ski
: mish drills.
lemonade, ice cream and fruit PED
dleTs are again allowed on tine cam
grounds.
Captain Ayars, of Company D, hG
: rendered his resignation to Colon'
Wickersham.
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