Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-27
TIE TROOPS ARE ONTHF MOVE.
The Third Brigade Makes . Start En-
Route to Porto Rico.
SCENES AT CHICKAAdAU7A-WH
SOME REGIMENTS ARE PACKING
UP TO GO, THOSE LEFT BEHIND
KEEP HARD AT WORK DRILLING.
MARKSMANSHIP CONTESTS BE-
TWEEN REGIMENTAL TEAMS.
PLENTY OF SUPPLIES.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 26-The
Third brigade, First division, First corps,
left this afternoon for Newport News.
This brigade is commanded by Brig. Gen.
Fred Grant and is composed of the First
Kentucky, Third Kentucky and Third IL
linois. The brigade will be accompanied
by the Third battalion of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, which arrived after the de-
parture Of the regiment for Porto Rico
The four commands will march five miles
to Rossvile and there load. The route
to elewport News will be over the Queen
& Crescent and Chesapeake G. Ohio via
Lexington, Ky, and Richmond, Va.
With the exception of the regiments
which go out tomorrow and which are
busy to-day packing, all commands are
hard at work drilling. The weather is
cool and pleasant and IL Is being fully
taken advantage OF. Late this afternoon
there will be two interesting shooting
contests, in which a team of u men from
each regiment of the First and Second
divisions will participate. The contest
will decide which regiment OF the division
Is entitled 10 be known as having
THE FINEST TEAM.
Tho firing will be at n distance OF 1oO
yards and each man will be entitled to ten
shots. There IS much interest in the
contest and there is perhaps not team Of
rnarksmen that do not feel confident OF
winning
Maj. Skunk, chief engineer of the Sec
ond Division, First corps, Is lecturing the
commissioned ard non-commissioned Of
ficers on the art of constructing hasty
field Notifications. The officers are in
terested in this important feature Of the
service and are gaining many valuable
pointa from Maj. Shunk's talks.
Major Nye, commissary officer of sub
sistence of the local military supply de-
pot has shipped 50 cars of provisions to
the park during the last 4S hours. Judg-
ing from these heavy shipments 1t would
appear as though more troops would
shortly arrive at the park. Maj. Nye
has not received any orders up to the
present writing to provide travel ra-
tons for the troops that are going to
leave the park.
An enormous quantity of letter mail Is
now being handled at the Chickamauga
postal station of the Chickamauga post
office. All OF the soldiers mail goes to
this Office and all civilian mail is sent TO
the Lytie, Ga, regular postoffice. At the
Chickamauga Station branch over 10000
letters are handled each day. This. in
cludes both the incoming and outgoing
mails. requiring a
FORCE OF SEVENTEEN CLERKS
TO distribute and make up the mails. In
addition TO these letters an average of
$3.50 mail packages. including papers,
boxes. etc, are handled each day. This
makes up over go sacks of paper mail
every "A hours. The mails are now being
received and dispatched without delay,
and much credit Is due the postal author
tiles.
DIR. C.M.Dpake, former chief surgeon
of the Southern railway, has been trans
ferred to the Third corps to take charge
OF the First division, First corps hospital.
There are O number of patients in this
hospital left by the commands which are
now enroute to Porto Rico. Troop M,
First Illinois cavalry, from Chicago, has
been named by Gen. Wade as his guard
of honor. The guard will go on duty as
soon as Gen. Wade decides upon the loca-
ton of his headquarters.