Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-26
TROOPS AT NEWPORT NEWS.
Making Ready for EmbarISatfOn-
Loading Trausnorfs

| NEWPORT NEWS. VA, July 25.-(Spe-
| cial.)-MaJo Brooke, who will
command the Porto Rican expedition.
which will sail from this port in a few
days, arrived here at 2:30 o'clock this af-
ternoon from Chickamauga. He was ac-
companied by the following members of
his staff: General Sheridan. chief of
STAN; Major Dean, chief aide-de-camp
Lieutenant Castle. acting aide-de-camp:
IAeutenant-Colonel Groom, inspector-gen-
eral; Lieutenant-Colonel Richards, adju-
tant general; Lieutenant Colonel
Goothals, chief engineer officer; Eeuten-
ant Haidecoper, chief surgeon; Heuten-
ant-Colonel Sharp, chief commissary;
Lieutenant-Colonel Rockwell. chief ord
nance officer; Lieutenant Colonel Carson.
chief quartermaster; Lieutenant-C Colonel
Glassford chief signal officer; Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Hunter. judge-advocate; Cap
tain Campbell, assistant quartermaster:
captain Williams, assistant quartermas-
ter; Major Mason. medical inspector.
With the arrival OF four batteries of ar
tillery. which are expected Tomorrow
morning. General Brooke's expedition will
be complete, the Fourth Ohio and Fourth
Pennsylvania regiments and the hospital
ambulance and signal corps having ar
rived this morning and this afternoon
The Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment came
in this afternoon on three trains. The
first battalion Is in command of Lieuten-
ant-Colonel ONeili, acting major; the Sc
cond in command of Major Ernst, and
the third in command of Major Mickey
CATCHING OYSTERS.
As soon as the Pennsylvania troops ar
rived they Joined the Illinois and the Ohio
regiments at Camp Haines. This morning
hundreds OF the Ohio men, who had been
in their cars all night refreshed them
selves by bath in the James river Many
of them had fine sport catching oysters,
which they gulped down from the shells.
Most OF the men of the three regiments
were given liberty to-day, and they spent
their time strolling about the streets.
This evening at o'clock all the troops
here were reviewed on dress parade by
General Brooke and General Haines. The
Indication is that the expedition will not
get away before Thursday or Friday.
PROCESS OF LOADING.
The men will go aboard the transports
first and the horses will follow. The trans
ports will receive the troops directly from
the piers. but in the case of the auxiliary
cruisers Harvard and st. Louis. the men
will have TO be taken out in lighters, as |
ships to be docked at a pier Batteries |
A and C, Pennsylvania National Guard, |
which has been stationed at the ship-yard |
here since the war began, received orders |
this morning TO hold themselves in readl-
ness TO go to Porto Rico. 1t Is not lAely, |
however that they will go with the first
expedition. A large force of men were
kept busy all day at the piers, loading tho
transports City of Washington, Massa-
,husetts. and Roumanian
1t was found yesterday morning that
he New York navy-yard authorities had
rot allowed sufficient room for men and
,orses in dividing the decks of the trans
,0rts. and a large part of the work had
O be done over When the transports ar
lived only eighteen inches were allowed
O the berth The refrigerating ship Gla-
ier came up from Old Point to-day, and
$ receiving a large quantity Of refriger-
ted beef, estimated at 100000 pounds.
SIX THOUSAND MEN.
Incoming trains during the last thirty
tx hours have brought nearly 5000 troops
o this city. This includes the Second Bri-
ade OF the First Army Corps, in COM
land of Brigadier- General Haines, from
National Park, and hve
roops of cavalry from Camp Alger.
The first train reached the city at noon
upday, and from that time on till late
esterday evening section followed sec
on. The trains stopped within a few
undred yards of the camp-grounds, ana
s fast as the troops arrived they were
larched to the grounds. where they Z
itched dog tents and made themselves :
omfortable General Haines's Brigade Is
imposed OF the Third Illinois. Colonel
emmett; Fourth Ohio, Colonel Colgyt, ana
o,irth PENNSYLVANIA, Colonel Case, which
rrived in the order named. !