The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE.
First Army Corps at Camp Thomas
Now Almost Equipped.

First Army Corps at Camp ThOmas
Now Almost Equipped.
CHICKAMAUGA. PARK. Ga, July e.
There were no developments at Camp
Thomas to-day, and the ordinary routine,
including the weekly inspection, was in
progress. Various rifle ranges were COM
pleted, and by Monday target practice will
be in progress in every division. The work
Of equipping the First Corps for active field
service continues as rapidly as stores arrive
carload of rifles was distributed among
the regiments of that corps to-day. The
corps is now ready to respond promptly to
an order to move and all the regiments are
daily looking for just such an order
Major General Brooke will be succeeded in
command at Camp Thomas by General
Wade, commander of the Third Corps Gen.
A. c. M. Pennington, appointed to sue
coed General Brooke in command of the
Department of the Gulf, will have his head
quarters at Atlanta.
Up to tonight there had arrived total
of H. O3 recruits. The regiments will all
have received their full complement within
three or four days
The work of the paymasters is progress
ing. Fifteen regiments have been paid up
to date.
Within forty-eight hours Colonel Huide-
koper, chief surgeon of the First Corps, has
organized the corps hospital and three am
bulance companies He received to-day and
had distributed in the First Corps all the
horse equipments for the mounted men of
the hospital service. and outfits for the hos
pital mess tents. The division hospitals for
the first corps are now all in working or
der, each with it's full complement of sur
geons and men.
Although the army now in camp here has
received no Immediate orders to move to
the 'front.' preparations for such an event are
going on. Ever since the arrival of this
army the Southern, Western & Atlantic,
Chattanooga, Rome & Southern and Ala
bama Great Southern have concentrated
large number of passenger coaches at this
point. These cars remained on the SdingS
in a rather promiscuous order until to-day,
when the two former roads began the work
of Strengthening out and making these cars
up into trains of one freight, three baggage
and nine passenger cars. Major Nye, com
missary of subsistence of the Chattanooga
depot, is engaged i'll preparing for a move
ment of the army
During the past seven days he has shipped
to the park a quantity of travel rationS.''
canned corned beef bareback, canned sal
mon and other prepared and cooked food,
SuInelent TO last the army Tor ten days.
the commissariat officers of the park,
that when the time comes to leave for the
front every soldier can secure his travel
rations'A from his regiment at the commits
sary and pack the same in his haversack in
a very few minutes.
Three rifle ranges are now established for
the use of the boys of the Third Division,
First Army. Corps, and they will commence
practice at once This division is among
the number ordered to the front and the
men will put in all the time possible in tar
get practice. The regiments which will prac-
tice at the new ranges are: Twelfth Mime
sofa, Twelfth New York, Eighth Massa-
chusetts, Fifth and Ninth Pennsylvania,
Twenty-first Kansas, Second Missouri and
First New Hampshire. The new rifle range
is located near the camp of the Twelfth Min
neSota and on a hill. The target practice
will commence at once.
MAJ. Alexander Rogers. who has been the
inspector general of General Grants di-
vision, has resigned his position and gone
to to Connecticut to accept the position Of
cut. 1t is not known who will succeed him,
but General Grant will probably appoint
York.
Results of two court-martials were an
nounced to-day at the headquarters of Cen
eral Poland, commanding the Second Divis-
ION, First Army Corps The most interest
ing case OF the number was against Allen
try He was tried on the charge of larceny.
having stolen money from his tent mates.
The man confessed, pleading guilty before
months Imprisonment at Fort Mcpherson,
Ga, forfeit all pay due him and be dishon-
orably discharged. The prisoner will be sent
to Atlanta at once under a guard. He halls
from Hardin county, Ohio The second case
was against H. Homer Moore, Company E,
Fourteenth Minnesota, who was tried for
disobeying orders and given ten days in the
guardhouse.
Private Ed Bills, aged twenty-four, Com
pany B, Second Wisconsin, died this morn
ing at Letter Hospital of appendicitis. The
remains will be sent to Oshkosh for inter-
ment.
Quartermaster Sergeant Mike Kelley.
Company G, Eighth New York, died to-day
of meningitis. 1t is said the body will be in
tered in the National Cemetery here.
A scene was witnessed at the park to-
night that indicates the patriotism and
spirit Of the soldiers at the camp. The AS
ISOLATED Press bulletin announcing that the
Spaniards in front of Santiago had been
driven by the Americans from their rifle
pits into the city was telephoned to General
Brooke's headquarters from the city just
after taps Notwithstanding the fact the
news spread like wildf1re, and soon more
than 10000 soldiers in their nightclothes
many of them carrying candles, were stray
Cling along the road singing national airs
and cheering. Quickly a number of bands
from Northern regiments dressed in their
night clothes, set up Dixie and then the
Georgia and Arkansas bands turned out
playing the ''Star-spangled Banner"
Marching through Georgia. and Lieut.
Col. Brookes, of the First Georgia, and Col
Good, of the First Pennsylvania, embraced
between the lines of the two regiments and
were taken upon the shoulders of the men
of the two regiments and carried through
with their arms about each other. The
men went to the headquarters of General
Rosser, who came out of his tent and made
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