The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24
Troops Arrive Every Hour at Chick
anauga Park.
ORGANIZATION COMPLETE
CAVALRY REGIMENTS FORMED
INTO BRIGADES.
Troops From the Far West Got In
Yesterday-Ninth Regiments Ar
rival Recalls Recollections Com
.mendable to Colored Soldiers
Chattanooga People Cheered Them
selves Hoarse.

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 23-The or
ganization into brigades of all the cav
airy regiments of the United State:
army conferred at Chickamauga Ma
tional park is now complete. The fol
lowing general orders was issued today
by Major General Brooke:
Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamausa
Park, April %. 1898.
General field orders No. 4:
The cavalry of this command is or
ganized as follows:
Cavalry division-Colonel A. K. Ar
mold, First cavalry, commanding.
First brigade-First cavalry, Second
cavalry, Tenth cavalry.
Second brigade-Third cavalry, Sixth
cavalry. Ninth cavalry.
The light artillery and infantry viii
be brigaded in a later order.
By command of General Brooke.
ARMY LIFE.
Fully 5000 regular troops are now
encamped at Chickamauga, the number
today having been almost doubled. The
soldiers arrived so fast that it was diff
cult to handle them properly, hardly an
hour of the day passing without two or
more long train loads coming in. The
work of unloading the trains at the
park was rendered doubly difficult by
rain, which fell at intervals all day. On
this account all drills were suspended
until Monday After that time, how
ever, army life Will begin in earnest.
1t is expected by that time nearly all
the regular troops to be located at
Chicakamauga will have arrived. The
Seventh infantry from Fort Logan,
Colo, which was reported as having
arrived will not be in until tomorrow
morning.
WESTERN TROOPS.
Most of the troops getting in to-
day were from far western posts. Six
companies of the Ninth cavalry (col-
ored), and two troops of the Sixth cav
airy, about $50 men, all from Fort Rob
inson, Neb., were among the early ar
rivals. They were followed by troop
II, First cavalry, from Fort Sill, o. T.:
troops A and 1, Second cavalry, from
Fort Logan. Colo; companies A, B, c,
D, e, F, G. and H. Eighth infantry, from
Fort Russell, Wyo.; five troops Tenth
cavalry from Fort Assinaboine; three
troops from Fort Keogh, and troops B
and D. First cavalry. from Fort Reno,
o. T. From the east came companies
c, E, F and G., Third cavalry, from
Fort Ethan Allen, VT. A trivial wreck
has blockaded the tracks to the park,
so that several companies of the cav
airy are forced to remain here over
night.
GENERAL BROOKE.
Major General Brooke today moved
his headquarters from the Read House
in Chattanooga to the Chickamauga
battlefield. His camp equipage and
tents arrived yesterday and were erect
ed at the point selected on the east
ell Of
his staff officers, Captain Richards and
Lieutenants Deane and McKenna, Gen
eral Brooke entered into the life of an
army on the field. The work of un-
loading the soldiers and their camp
equipments as they arrived at Chicka-
manga Park today proceeded under ad-
verse circumstances. A heavy rain
fell during the night, soaking the field
and making the clay roads slippery,
and in places so soft as to render diff
cult the handling of the heavy army
wagons with their loads.
A notable addition was made TO the
soldiers at Chickamauga today by the
arrival of the Ninth regiment of cav
airy from Fort Robinson, Neb, COM
manded by Colonel Henry.
COLORED TROOPS.
This regiment is composed exclusive
ly of colored troops and has seen as
much service as any in the army It's
rescue of the Seventh cavalry and light
battery E, First artillery, at Pine Ridge
agency. during the Sioux uprising of
the winter of 1901 was remarkable, /
the troops riding 100 miles through
deep snow between sunrise and sunset
and completely surprising the Indians /
Troop H, of the First cavalry, from |
Fort Sill, Okla, 90 men, in command /
If Major Force, came in today and /
we're at once sent out to the park. 1
Later in the day the Seventh infantry. /
rom Fort Logan, Colo, came in. Many /
more are expected before midnight, 1
and by tomorrow good sized army
will be at the park.
CAME YESTERDAY.
ALI dav the long trains 611od iii.