The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-17
Eghty-One Thousand Have Now Been Mustered Into
the Service.
THOUSANDS POURING INTO CAMP
EAGER TO MEET THE SPANISH FOE
Assignments Of Major GeneralsTampa May Be Abandoned
AS Base of Operations.

Chickamauga National Park, Ga,
May l6.-The war department has rea-
son to be gratified at the dispatch and
the ease with which the volunteer army
is being concentrated. Within As hours
from the time the order was issued for
the mobilization at this point of state
troops already mustered into the
regular service. $500 men, representing
six great states, have reported to
Major General Brooke, in command of
the Department of the Lakes, head
quarters here. General Brooke has al
ready reviewed the majority of the
companies and is gratified at the
! splendid appearance of the men.
| The Third Illinois infantry reported
| to General Brooke at O'Clock this
afternoon. The regiment is composed
of II companies, 1,027 men and officers,
in command of Colonel Fred Bennett.
The Fourth Ohio infantry arrived
at Chattanooga at $50 o'clock and
reached the park at noon and reported
Immediately to General Brooke. The
regiment is in command of Colonel A.
b. Colt, and is composed of Y COM
panies, 1000 men and officers.
The Fifth Illinois infantry, Colonel ].
F. Culver commanding, arrived in
Chattanooga at 3 o'clock a. m. and re-
ported at the park at noon, reporting at
once to General Brooke. The regiment
has u companies, 1,175 men and Of
ficers.
The First Indiana infantry, Colonel
George NJ. Studebaker commanding, ar
rived at this point at o'clock. Eleven
hundred men and officers comprise the
regiment.
The Fourth Pennsylvania infantry
arrived at o'clock and reached the
park about o'clock. The regiment
has only eight. companies, 700 men and
officers. Colonel D. Z. Case is in COM
mand. The Fourth is famous regi-
ment and has figured in all the defenSes
of the state against lawlessness and
strikes. They were at Homestead in
1892; the Hazleton strike in 1897, and
the Reading railroad strike in 1877.
They are good marksmen, the ma
jority being sharpshoOters.
The Twenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh Indiana batteries from Indian
apolis and Fort Wayne, under Captain
James B. Curtis and Captain T. L.
Ranke, 125 men each, arrived tonight
and will remain in their cars over
night. They came without horses or
guns and will be equipped here.
The Second Wisconsin infantry ar
Captain Rockwell, in charge of the
ordnance department, complains that
the commanders of nearly all the
volunteer regiments so far arrived
have failed to comply with the order
directing them before leaving their
state encampmentS, to notify the de-
partment at washington as to their
needs in the way of uniforms, ord
nance. ammunition, etc, and states that
there will be some delay in equipping
such regiments, as he can do nothing
until he has received the reports from
the various commanding officers, when
he will make the necessary requisi-
lions.
Major General Brooke today issued
his first general army order, looking to
the reorganization of the volunteer
army. This order assigns Major Cen
eral James H. Wilson of Delaware to
command the First infantry division of
the provisional army corps, to be COM
posed of three brigades of four regi-
ments each.
Almost simultaneously the second or
der was issued. assigning Brigadier
Generals a. S. Burt, c. E. Compton and
II. w. Lawton to command the br:gades
under General Wilson, in the order
named. The First Ohio, Third Wiscon-