The San Francisco call., 1898-04-27

800 superb horses staked out on picket lines in the level valley opposite the railway station.
 The men, meanwhile, had not been idle. With that promptness which characterizes everything the cavalry does their equipments had been car ried from the train and placed on the ground in as perfect order as if for in spection at stables" in their post at home. Great numbering army wagons. with their bowed hoops and white tar paulin covers, were debarked from flat cars, piled high with army parapherna- lia, to be almost immediately picked up by teams of sturdy Government mules and wheeled off toward the site selected for the cavalry camping grounds, on Lexington road, almost in the center of the park
 The cavalry is ready to move at a moments notice, and so far as rations and forage are concerned would not be at all hampered by sudden marching orders, for they brought with them supplies and rations for from thirty to thirty-fve days.
 The cavalry encampment as inaugur- ated on Thursday is located about 6 mile and a half from the infantry bi- vouac. The Third Cavalry from Jef- ferson Barracks were the first. of all the troops t0 arrive at Chattanooga
  out. with the single exception of the Twenty-ffth Infantry, which was on the field several days before the gen. era order was issued
 The Third was ordered to march from Chattanooga to the camp site selected for them by Major Dillenbeck and ar rived at the park about noon Thurs day. The command numbered about 800 men, who, together with their bag and SnnnlV trains r1nda for midable looking caravan. Throngs of carriages followed this detachment from the city and hack drivers reaped a harvest such as they have not had in years.
 When the troops from Fort Riley, Fort Wingate and Fort Logan arrived, completing the Second Cavalry, the scenes were repeated at the park, where their trains were unloaded. One of the troops from Fort Wingate. E, of the Second Cavalry, is the crack troop of the United States army in the matter of rifle shooting, having won the great Nevada trophy in last seasons com petitive shoot. The troop commander, Captain Pearson, who has been de- tailed on instruction duty in the East for some time. was the only member of his troop. officers or men. who did not participate in the shoot First Lieu tenant Willie Bean was in command and Lieutenants William Kelly Jr and M. A. Hanna are also attached to this troop. The honor which attaches to this trophy is by no means insignifi- cant, for it is the highest mark of ap- proval that can be placed upon com pany or troop for craftsmanship.
 The headquarters of Major General Brooke are besieged by visitors and newspaper representatives almost in cessantly, for news, and now that it is unoff1cially stated that the mobilization of S0.000 volunteers will occur at Chick amauga Park, as soon as they are called out, Chattanooga is awakening to a real sense of her importance and is trying in every possible way to put on the manners of big town. Wher. the camp is abandoned at Chicka- mauga, however. and the soldiers have all departed the relapse into her for mer condition of peaceful rest will be as complete as it will be instantaneous.
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