The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-22
STATES TROOPS
TO STAY LONGER
Further Orders Issued and First
Regiment Does Not Move Yet.
ALL WAS READINESS TO MOVE
Many New Tents Arrive and are
Erected-Camp Tunnel Will Con-
tinue to Exist for Some Time
Yct.-Life Among the Sol
dier Boys.

Special Dispatch to The SUN.
CAMP TuNNELL Middletown, May 81
Further orders were issued from Wash
ington today and Camp Tunnel will re-
main for somt time yet.
The orders were received this after
noon and they countermanded. the
orders then being executed, that OF pre-
pairing the troops to move on Monday
Until the later orders were received it
was expected that by Tuesday the First
Regiment Delaware Volunteers would be
quartered at Falls Church, Va, 10 miles
below Washington, now the rendezvous
of the vast volunteer army.
The troops We're to have left Middle
town Monday afternoon and gone
straight through to Virginia, and every
thing was in perfect readiness for the
breaking of camp ON Monday morning.
All goods which belong to the State
and were in camp were shipped to Will
mington today.
A car load OF 800 tents arrived here
this afternoon, and these were brought
! to the camp and at once placed in posi-
ton, so that now there will be no more
crnwding as to sleeping capacity.
Six hundred company hats were
issued this afternoon, they all going to
and being distributed among Companies
Nj, l., G, B, and |. The balance of the
companies will receive theirs on next
Tuesday. Also three hundred leggins
were delivered to the same companies.
This will give the boys a better appear
ance when the hundreds of Sunday visi-
tors arrive tomorrow.
Bacon and bareback is now the fare OF
all the companies. 1t is expected that
Monday will be pay day, and the men
appear overjoyed with the outlook.
Travel rations had been issued to all
the companies yesterday in anticipation
of the trip to the rendezvous Falls
Church, but the orders received today
from Adjutant. General Corbin at Wash
ington, will necessitate the abandonment
OF this fare for the present at least.
Notwithstanding the warm weather,
all of the available time is used in drill
ing and acquiring all the knowledge pos.
sible of military tactics and discipline.
The officers have compassion on the
men, however, and they are not exposed
to the sun any more than is absolutely
necessary.
The officers are looking for six desert.
ers, two from Laurel and four from Viii.
mington, and when they are caught they
will probably be put in irons at the
! guardhonse and at intervals will be re-
quired to work at hard labor One vii
mington man, who was thought to have
deserted, has been located in a Philadel
phia hospital, where he is under treat
ment.
Deserters can be handled by civil a:
well as military authorities, and any
citizen who returns a deserter to camp ii
entitled to IL reward OF S2o.
Lieutenant Cotton of Company A ha
been appointed acting ordnance officer il
charge Of the Calling gun.
None OF the men viii be given pashe;
in the future unless they have good bon;
tide excuses for leaving camp, and al
such passes must be approved bv the
colonel. Between the reveille, and tap
there are no restrictions upon commits
stoned officers and they can leave camp
provided one commissioned officer is left
in command of the company.
Company A is very proud of its riff
trophies and every man in camp re
CARDS with admiration the winners o
the prizes
Company A exhibited superior shoot
ing, and it is claimed for them by al
who witnessed the shooting that the
deserved to be winners. Captain Carte
has forwarded both the Barnard AM
the Rudolph tropy to Wilmington
where they are paced in the respec
} tive windows of the givers.
Capt. Edmund i. Rogers of Co. II
: wears handsome pair OF gold cuff but
: tons, ornamented with military design
. which we've at one time the property c
z his uncle, Daniel Rogers, while the late
| was judge advocate in the United State
navy.
First Lieutenant George W. Sasse {
e Co. d has sent to the attaches of the Wi
. mington post Office letter thankin
, them for the handsome sword wh'c
h was presented to him. The sword is on
: OF the finest in camp and the lieutenar
u prizes it very highly,