The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-22
At ChICKANAUGl RARk.
Orders to Move to the Front
Greeted With Cheers.
THE MOVEMENT ALREADY BEGUN

The Fourth Pennsylvania, the Fourth
Ohio and Third Illinois Regiments
Leave For Newport News, En- Route
For Porto Rico.
Chickamauga Park. Ca, July 22-It
now looks as If at least two thirds of
the troops at Camp Thomas are to be
ordered to Porto Rico under General
Brooke. The movement began this
morning, when the Second brigade Of
the First division, First CORPS, COM
manded by Brigadier General Haines.
left for Newport News The regiments
Of the brigade are the Fourth Ohio.
Third Illinois and Fourth Pennsyl-
vania. The order to move, received last
evening, was greeted with the widest
enthusiasm. The regiments of the
brigade Joined in the yells of frantic
delight and the regimental bands dis
coursed national airs
This brigade Is the only organization
that will leave the Park today, but if
there Is not sudden change in the
plans as they are now understood here
the entire First corps will follow the
different brigades going out as rapidly
as transportation can be arranged. But
for lack of transportation the reserve
hospital corps. the reserve ambulance
company, four batteries Of light artil-
lery and the signal corps would have
been ordered out today. The batteries
are A, of Illinois; B, of Pennsylvania;
A: OF Missouri, and the Twenty-sev-
enth Indiana. They will, however, fol-
low not later than tomorrow, and by
that time the arrangements will have
been completed for steady movement
day by day until the entire force is out.
While General Brooke In person had |
nothing to give out for publication, one
OF the most prominent and best posted !
officers of the First CORPS admitted |
that 1t was the purpose to move the en-
tire corps. which numbers about $4,000
officers and men. The regiments of the
First corps are:
Fifth Illinois, Third Wisconsin, First
Kentucky, Third Illinois, Fourth Penn
sylvania, Fourth Ohio, Sixteenth Penn
sylvalia, Second Wisconsin, Third
Kentucky, Thirty-first Michigan, One
hundred and Sixtieth Indiana, First
Georgia. Sixth Ohio, One hundred and
Fifty-eighth Indiana, First West Vir-
ginia. Second Ohio, First Pennsylvania,
Minnesota, Twelfth Nine
sofa. First South Carolina, Fifth Penn
Eighth Massachusetts, Ninth
Twenty-first Kansas,
Twelfth New York, Second Missouri
and First New Hampshire.
There have very few assertions from
The army here. There are number of
men who have remained away without
eave until their money was all gone,
out there have not been 20 genuine de-
sertions from the entire army. -Four
men from the Eighth Massachusetts
nave been away overtime, but only two
If these, 1t is believed, are deserters.
rhe First Pennsylvania has four de-
;erters and the Third Tennessee two.
hurried Investigation discovered that
here were no assertions at all in the
'1rst Maine and not more than one, il
hat, in the First Vermont.
1t Is stated at General Brooke's head
uarters that In SO large a body of raw
oldiers, unused to the hardships of
amp life, 1t is remarkable that so few
ave deserted the ranks There are of
curse, occasional desertions, but the
tory that there have been numerous
esertions from regiments from any
ne section or from the army at large
untrue. 1t was pointed out to the
oldiers remaining away over time that
hey could be considered deserters, and
n this foundation some special cor
espondents have been reporting these
len as deserters every day, sometimes
} the number Of hundreds.