The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-30
Many of the First Corps Now Think
Peace Will Be Declared Before They
Are Ordered to Porto Rico.
COL H. B. SMITHS SCOUTS
NINETY-SIx MEN OF THE 15STH IN
DIANA UNDER TRAINING.
Protest of Army Surgeons at Camp Al
ger-TrOops to March to Washing
ton Next Week for Review.

CHIcKAMAUGA MILITARY PARK. Ca,
July @.-The regiments at Camp Thomas
are anxiously waiting to know which of
them are next to be favored with orders to
proceed to the front. There is still hope
that the First Corps will go out in it's en-
tirety, but this is mixed with serious doubts
in the minds of the volunteers. who seem
to think that peace will come too soon to
be to their liking. There is not a command
here that is not anxious to see actual serv-
ice, and only those who have visited the
regiments daily can fully appreciate the dis
appointment that would prevail should hos
tilities cease. leaving the soldiers here to be
sent home without having gone to meet the
enemy. The only regiment that left Camp
Thomas to-day was the First South Caro-
lima. under command of Colonel Aston.
The regiment broke camp at 5 o'clock this
morning, marched to Rossville, a distance
of eight miles, where at Z a. m. it began
loading. Four hours later and the last sec
ton had pulled out from Rossville. The
regiment proceeded to Jacksonville via the
Southern and Florida Central & Peninsula
Railways.
No further orders as to the removal of
troops from this camp were issued to-day,
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Second Division, First Corps, will be or
dered out within a day or two unless peace
negotiations should reach such a stage as to
result in a truce.
Colonel Kress, of Jefferson Barracks, ar
rived at the park to-day and was assigned
to duty as chief ordnance officer, relieving
as chief ordnance officer of the Third Corps.
wit
of the government paymasters to Camp
Thomas. Major Almy, adjutant general on
the staff of General Wade said this. even
ing that the work of paying the troops for
the month of July would be in progress
within week or ten days. The money to
be paid out will aggregate something over
s., 100000.
To-day the men of the Fifth Illinois, who
were so badly demoralized by the order re-
turning them to Camp Thomas after they
had made a start for the front, were in
better frame of mind and those who had
absented themselves from roll call began
returning. 1t is believed that every man
will be in his place by tomorrow. The regi-
ment is one of the best on the field, and
great sympathy has been expressed for them
on all sides.
train of the Third Division of the First
Army Corps was out on review on the
Smith White field. The scene was a very
picturesque one. The wagon train was
three lines deep, follows: First South
Carolna. Eighth Massachusetts, First New
Hampshire, First Minnesota, Twelfth New
York, Second Missouri, Fifth Pennsylvania
Twenty-first Kansas Ninth Pennsylvania
This was in brigade formation the First
South Carolina being on the left and the
Fifth Pennsylvania on the right. Each reg
iment had twenty-seven wagons making
4Sl in all. To each wagon was attached four
mules. this bringing. the number up to
above one thousand Each wagon was
packed with camp equipment and had a
call come for a movement to the front
could have started on half a seconds no.
t1ce. The ambulance corps had the right
of line. Gen. Joseph P. Sanger reviewed
the train The whole procession was in
teresting and well executed.
Colonel Smith, commanding the One-hun-
dred-and-ffty- eighth Indiana, has just
formed company of scouts in his regiment.
The organization numbers ninety-six men,
eight from each company, including one
poncommissioned officer and seven privates
The company is in charge of Sergeant S.
who was for twenty-five months one of
General Crooke's scouts. He has already
first learning to crawl along the ground
lying fiat on their stomachs. Colonel Smith
mas great confidence in Sergeant Clair, who
recently enlisted as private, but was pro-
NOTED.
An order has been issued from General
Wade's headquarters appointing the follow
ing board of survey to examine into and
report on and fix the responsibility for
shortage in trousers and footwear in orig
inal packages, and verified in the depot at
Lytle Capt. S. NJ. Duncan, First Lieut.
Mortar w. Gather. Second Lieut.. Oscar L.
Wells, all of the Second Kentucky Infantry.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Robert w. An
Is. having roDOrtG6 a
Wade's headquarters, has been assigned to
duty at the Camp Thomas hospital.