The San Francisco call., 1898-05-18
NEARING THE
 FULL QUOTA Volunteer Army Now Mum bers Over Ninety Thousand Men. Seventeen Regiments Report to General Brooke at
 Chickamauga. Officers and Men of the Fifth Corps Glad That Shsfter Is to
 Head Them.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
Call Office, Riggs House.
 Washington. May IT.


 Washington, May II.
 The volunteer army is rapidly near ing completion. Reports received by Adjutant General Corbin tonight sho" that 92 5SO men have been mustered in. Eighteen States have completed thelr ouota as follows: California, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Mary land, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyi- vania, Vermont, Washington, west Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
 Orders to the volunteer troops to move were given as follows: F1rst Wisconsin to Tampa, Second Illinois to Tampa. Light Battery A Qlllnols) 10 Chickamauga, Third Michigan to Tam pa. Battery (Pennsylvania) to Chick amauga.
 CHICKAMAUGANA ANATIONALPARK May 17.-At o'clock this evening eleven regiments of infantry, one of cavalry and five of light artillery T. 900 men all told-had reported to General Brooke. in command of the Chickamauga army. The different regiments have been provided with camping grounds, tents and equip ments as rapidly as possible and the 
 proof of what the United States can do in the way of assembling volun- teer army.
 General Brooke this morning com pleted the assignment for the first division of the Sixth Provisional Army Corps, Major General James H. Wilson commanding, as follows:
 First Brigade-Brigadier-G General A. S. Burt: First Ohio, Colonel Hunt; Third Wisconsin, Colonel Martin T. Moore; Fifth Illinois, Colonel J. s. Culver. F. Compton; Fourth Ohio, Colonel A. B. Golf. Third Illinois, Colonel Fred Ben nett: Fourth Pennsylvania, Colonel D. B.
 Third Brfgade-Brigadier-G H. w Tawton: Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Colonel Huling; Second Wisconsin, Col onel C. A. Born; One Hundred and F1fty- seventh Indiana, Colonel George M. Studebaker.
 Brigadier General Lawton to-day re- ceived orders to report to Tampa, and Colonel Wilson J. Huling, of the Six teenth Pennsylvania, being the senior officer in Camp Thomas, was assigned to the Third Brigade of the First Divi- sion.
 ferred to the Department of the Gulf, will retain his headquarters at Chicka- mauga. General James H. Wade, who has been assigned to the Third Army Corps, will report to General Brooke to- morrow It is expected that General Wilson's corps will nave been com pleted by Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, by which time Gen. eraI Wade will be here to assist in the reorganization of the divisions of his corps.
 TAMPA, Fla May 1.-The assign ment of General Shafter to command the Fifth Corps, which embraces two thirds of the entire regular army of the ITnited States, is received with satisfa ction by both officers and men. The regular troops will be the first to be landed in Cuba. and General Shaf- ter's reputation as a fighter leads the men to believe that their work will be cnt out for them from the start.
 Arrangements have been practically concluded for the placing of the thir- teen regiments of volunteers which will be included in the Seventh Army Corps under Major-General Fitzhugh Lee at Lakeland and Dade City, at least until the troops at Tampa are moved. The water supply, which has been a cause of much annoyance at Tampa. is abudant at Lakeland.
 WASHINGTON, May 17.-First Lieu tenant Charles Young of the Ninth Cavalry has been relieved from duty order that he may accept the position of major of the Ninth Battalion of the Colored Ohio Volunteers Infantry Lieutenant Young is the only colored officer in the line of the army. This is said to be the first instance in which a colored officer has been given the command of a battalion of troops in the army.
 DENVER, May 1.-The First Regi- ment Colorado Volunteers, Colonel Irv- ing Hale, departed for San Francisco this afternoon. They occupy four trains, two going west over the Den yer and Rio Grande Railroad, and two over the Colorado Midland The sol- diers marched from camp through the city to the depot, and were wildly cheered by the crowds lining the streets.
 VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash, May 17-Major Thomas H. Barry, as- sistant adjutant-general of the Depart ment of the Columbia, received orders to-day to report at the Presidio. Cal, for active field duty in the Philippine Islands. He will leave for San Fran cisro to.norrow night