The evening times., 1898-06-09
HHfat1It SOLDIERS LIVE
Troops at Chickamauga Do MOI.
Expect 10 Move Directly.
REGIMENTS 70 BE RFCaUITED
1t May Require Several Weeks to,
BrinE the Regiments Up 10 Their
Fall strenxth-The Mem suffer
Very Mack From Heat and Dsst
During Ds1ils.

Camp Thomas. June 9.-Orders to recruit
all the regiments at the Park to the full
strength has destroyed all hope In most
Of the commands Of an immediate move
ment to the front. There are few regi-
ments that have the maximum number
Of men. the average being about eighty
six to a company, while 106 is the required
number. In all OF the deficient regiments
recruiting officers are being appointed.
and in several instances they have already
left for their States to procure men.
In the Ninth New York. Capt. Morris,
Lieut. Wilcox and Capt. Timson have
been appointed recruiting officers. Lieut..
Wingate. Lieut.. Mcnamara and Lieut.
Bridger have been designated to go to
New York 10 recruit the Fourteenth New
York. The Fourteenth is short about
go men. the Eighth 80 and the Twelfth
$50. II will take at least two weeks to
recruit the short regiments. in some in
stances probably longer.
Officers and men of the First Ohio Cav
airy are the gioomiest ones in the big
camp. For more than a week
they have been rushing preparations for
departure and one and all believed they
would soon be en- route to the scene of
action. Today they received an order to
discontinue preparations for departure.
and the Information that they would re-
| main indefinitely was impaired to them.
In literal sense today was one of the
warmest yet experienced by the volunteer
army. Men OF experience as well as the
raw recruits suffered. Thousands of wag-
ons moving along the driveways keep
clouds of dust in the air. and at times it
was almost impossible TO breathe
Reports in circulation that the New
York regiments are not receiving the
Iroper amounts of rations are vigorously
denied by each of the regimental COM
manders. Col. Leonard of the Eighth.
Col. Chauncey of the Ninth. and Col.
Kline of the Fourteenth. all stated en-
phatically today that their men were re-
| ceiving the best treatment in the mat
| ter of ratiohs and all other matters.
Paymaster Macarthur continued the
work of paying the troops today.
Cnml. Black.
Camp Black, June 9-Gen. Pennington
received in the first mail today the or
| ders from Gen. Frank. commanding the
Department Of the East. to send the three
| regiments encamped here to the coast
| forts. Before they were promulgated he
| communicated with the quartermaster in
| the Army Building. New York. to arrange
| for transportation. BY noon everything
was arranged. Gen. Pennington announc-
| ed that the Forty-seventh Regiment
would leave here first. then the Twenty
| second. and lastly the First Regiment.
Gen. Frank assigned the Forty-seventh
| Regiment to the State camp at Quansett,
| Fort Adams and Dutch Island. r. i.
Col. Eddy announced that the First bat
1 f.-Sx.-
| and NJ. with Majors Quick and Lyon.
| and himself as commander. would go
| to the Rhode Island State camp at Guam
sett: Lieut.. Col. W. II. Hubbell and Ma
| jor Barthman. and Companies b. F. G
| and /, of the Second Battalion, and Com
| panies D and X, of the Third Battalion.
| to Fort Adams. and the remaining two
| companies of the Third Battalion. E and
| A. to Dutch Island.
Gen. Pennington made arrangements to
| have the regiment break camp at 10:3o
| O'Clock tomorrow morning for Long ISL
and City. AT that point a Fall River
| line boat will be in waiting to take the
| regiment to Providence. r. l.. whence
| they will go by train to their destination.
| The boat was ordered to be in readiness
at Long Island City az noon tomorrow.
Gen. Pennington received a dispatch
from Gen. Frank late last night telling
him to hold the First Battalion al Camp
Black until further orders. This order
will result in sending away from here
tomorrow only eight companies. They
are to go as originally planned. Gen.
Pennington did not know the reason for
the order holding Col. Eddy and The four
companies here. He said he understood
that there were some Rhode Island
troops at Quansett. and he presumed that
the governor of Rhode Island had re-
Quested the War Department to hold
the First Battalion of the Forty-seventh
here until these troops leave their camp.
The Twenty-second. of New York will
not break camp before Friday. II has
been ordered to Fort Slocum. Fort Schuy-
Ter and WilIets Point. Col Bartlett will
have his headquarters at Fort Slocum.
II is said that the Third Battalion will
go to Fort Schuyler. This is the rem
nant of what was once the Thirteenth
| Regiment. of Brooklyn.
Col Bartlett received this statement
| signed by all the men. with the excep-
ticu of the commissioned and non-con-
missloned officers. of the Third Battai-
| ion:
Camp Black, Hampstead, june s. 1895
| Commanding Officer of the Twenty-second In
fantry. New York Volunteers:
| Sr-we, the undersigned. enlisted men Of the
| Third Battalion. Twenty second Infantry. New
| York Volunteers Formerly Thirteenth Battalion.
| n, G. N. W do hereby take this method Of
| expressing our entire satisfaction in being at
| tachcd to the Twenty-second Infantry, n. Y. ".
| and to refute the rumors now being circulated
| by cx-members Of the former Thirteenth lnfanry.
n G.. n y that desire to be detached from
the Twenty second Infantry. n. Y. ". We also
desire TO express to you, sir, our thanks for the
many courtesies which the Third Battalion has
received at your hands and from the officers and
enlisted men of the First and Second Battalions.
James Ii Kernochan, jr., who made ap-
plication for enlistment in the First Regi-
ment as private, was in camp today. He
| said that he gave up his notion Of going
| into the infantry after he had been re-
| jected on account Of the injury to his leg.
| and was now going to make application
| to be admitted into Troop A. A recruiting
officer is now in New York looking for
nineteen men to fill up the ranks Of the
troop to the requirements Of the Army
regulations.
Private Mckinley, Of Company ~. For
| ty-seventh; was on trial today before
Lieut.. Col. Hubbell, on charge of over
staying his leave for three days.
Are you any relation to the Presi-
dent?" asked Lieut.. Col. Hubbel.
mo, sir:1 am not" said the culprit.
"You are fined 81 said the judge.
Lieut.. Martin D. Andelfnger, of Com
pany A. Forty-seventh. sent his resigna-
tion to Gen. Pennington today. 1t was
reported that there was some little fr.c-
ton between the lieutenant and Capt.
Butcher. Andelfinger was asked by al
the men in Company F to withdraw his
resignation.
stay-at-Homes Must DrilI.
New York. June s.-For the first time In
the history of the National Guard of this
city members will be court-martialed
for refusing to drill in regiments in which
they did not enlist originally. This condi-