Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-09-22
NEWS OF THE TROOPS.

The Second Kentucky and the Second
Arkansas left Camp Thomas.
The transport Vigilancia carried the last
Of Skaters army from Cuba.
The Twentieth regiment of regulars has
gone to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The Third regiment Of regulars passed
through New York City Tuesday night
bound for Fort Smelling, Mimi.
All the troops except a few regulars
have left Chickamauga, but quite large
number remain in the hospitals.
Chicago's adopted regiment of regulars,
the gallant Fourth, has returned to the
snug barracks of Fort Sheridan.
The Fourth Wisconsin volunteer infan-
try, which has been at Camp Douglas all
summer, is to be moved to Admission, Ala.
The Government transports Roumania,
Chester, Berlin, Mohawk and Mississippi,
at Montauk, can move 5000 troops in one
day.
The general movement of regulars from
Camp Wikoff began Tuesday, under d.
rection of Col. Kimball, deputy quarter
master general.
The army hospital boat Relief left
Montauk Point Monday with 250 sick
soldiers for Boston, and they will be plac-
cd in hospitals in that city.
The first barge load of Spanish prison
ers left the Greedy cottage landing on
Seavey's Island, Monday, to embark on
the steamship City of Rome.
The Minnesota hospital train bearing
the sick soldiers home from the South ar
rived in Chicago over the Big Four, and
left immediately for the North.
1t is the policy of the President to re-
move the troops from Montauk Point as
rapidly as possible. A large number of
sick men are in the hospital there.
Company / of the Fifth Illinois volun-
teers returned home at Jacksonville and
they were accorded a greeting which wed
with that given their fathers in '65.
Between three and four hundred sick
were sent to New York and Brooklyn
hospitals from Camp Wikoff on Sunday
on the steamer Shinnecock and by rail.
Illinois Sixth regiment is home from
Porto Rico, having arrived at Weehaw-
ken, N. j., on the transport Manitoba
Tuesday afternoon, after five days voy-
age from Ponce.
The third battalion of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania regiment sailed from New
York Wednesday afternoon on the trans
port Berlin for Porto Rico to join the regi-
ment for garrison duty.
Three regiments Of regulars left New
York Wednesday. The Thirteenth goes
to Fort Porter and Fort Columbus; the
Seventeenth to Columbus, Ohio; the
Twenty-first to Plattsburg, VT.
Crack cavalry organizations from New
York and Philadelphia comprised the
great ma jority of those who reached New
York on board the United States trans
port Mississippi, from Ponce, Porto Rico.
The transport Saratoga arrived Tues
day from Santiago. Two hundred and
fifty colored laborers and sixty signal
corps men were landed at Camp Wikoff.
The transports brought about 5000 Span
ish rifles.
The transport Vigilancia arrived Mon
day morning from Santiago with 800 pas
sengers. of whom % were nurses, the
rest being officers and soldiers OF various
regiments. The Vigiancia had seventy
eight i'll on board.
The mastering out of the rough riders
at Camp Wikoff Tuesday gave an oppor-
tunity to Col Teddy Roosevelt and his
boys to exchange compliments. The men
presented the colonel with bronze rep
lica, 1.-THE Bucking Broncho," purchased
by popular subscription.
The 15Sth Indiana infantry arrived
home at Indianapolis Tuesday and was
greeted by thousands Of people. As the
trains drew near the city the whistles,
cannons, bells and nearly everything pos
sessing any qualities for noise-making
were turned loose, and the din was ear-
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