The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-19
GENERAL BRookE's CORPS.
All the Regiments Expect to Go, and
VIII BE Ready To-Day.

CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ca, July 49,
Speculation was rife throughout Camp
Thomas to-day as to what regiments will
go with General Brooke to Porto Rico.
There is not a regiment in the First Corps
but what is expecting to form part of the
Porto Rican force, and many of them
buoyed by a feeling that they are sure to be
included in the order. BY tomorrow noon
the entire First Corps will have been thor
cughly equipped and every regiment in the
corps will be in readiness, but in accord
ance with the latest dispatches from Wash
ington it is not expected that more than two
divisions of General Brooke's corps will be
called for. For this reason the anxiety in
the corps is greatly increased. 1t is natural
to suppose that the First and Second Divi-
sions, they now exist, will constitute the
expeditionary force, but precedents have
proven that the War Department cannot be
relied upon to send brigade organizations to
the front as they exist in camp. For vari-
Gus reasons important changes may be
made and the troops rebrigaded In the
event of no changes of this character, the
regiments likely to be included are as fol-
lows: The brigade now at Charleston, con-
sisting of the Second and Third Wisconsin
and Sixteenth Pennsylvania. the Third I'LL
First and Third Kentucky, Fifth Illinois.
Thirty-first Michigan, One-hundred-
sixtieth Indiana First Georgia, Sixth Ohio.
One-hundred-an -dfty-eighth Indiana, First
West Virginia, Second Ohio. First Pennsyl-
vania and Fourteenth Minnesota
Colonel Rockwell, chief ordnance officer,
stated to-day that he had received ordnance
stores sufficient to entirely complete equip
ping the First Corps, and that by noon to-
morrow these stores would be duly distrib-
uted. Five carloads of ordnance stores ar
rived to-day, including one car of rifles and
revolvers from the Columbia arsenal, two
cars of general equipage from the Rock
Island arsenal and two cars of ammunition,
a total of one million rounds, from the
Frankland arsenal, of Philadelphia.
In accordance with orders received last
night, the wagon train of the Second Bril-
gade. First Division. First Corps, left for
Charleston this afternoon, being placed on
board the cars at Rossville. 1t is accepted
as conclusive that General Haines's bril-
gade, consisting of the Fourth Fennsylva-
MIA, Fourth Ohio and Third Illinois, will go
forward not later than Wednesday,
1t is the opinion of one of the best-in-
formed men in official capacity at General
Brookes headquarters that the entire force
to be included in the order will leave the
park during the present week.
1t appears from present indications, that
all the batteries composing the artillery bril-
gades at the park will only be four-gun
batteries None of the batteries has re-
ceived but four guns and all of the Ohio
batteries have been ordered to send in four
gun shortage reports. The talk has been
current at the park for some time that the
batteries would be reduced TO four guns.
and it now appears that the boys will go to
the front with only that number.
The Southern and Western Atlantic
Railroad officials received orders to-day to
provide cars for moving as many as 1900
troops at once, and tonight the side tracks
just outside the switch yards of both roads
are filled with Pullman and passenger
coaches ready to be rushed to Ringgold and
Rossville, points Of embarkation, at a mo-