Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-06
CAMP ALGER.

General Butler, as stated yesterday,
lett Camp Ager that day for Manassas,
where he intends TO seek suitable
camping ground for lis division. The
time OF the departure of the First Divi
son corps headquarters aud the hos
piia! corps has not been determined,
but they will probably leave next We'd
nesday.
Copies of the order issued by the War
Department, organizing a provisional
division for the Porto Rico campaign,
were delivered to the colonies COM
manding the Third Virginia, Fourth
Missouri, First Rhode Island and First
Connecticut. The First New Jersey
received notification on Thursday.
Except in the regiments named the
receipt of the order indicated is not
thought to be particularly significant.
The impression prevails in camp that
the expedition will not start for several
months, if at all. Transportation facil-
tiles are meagre in the extreme, and
are made more so at the present time
by the necessity for the moving of the
volunteers now at Santiago. In view
of this fact, said one of the officers on
duty at headquarters yesterday, it is
not likely that the five regiments from
Camp Alger could proceed to Porto
Rico before the latter part of September.
Colonel Male, of the Third Virginia,
and the colonies of the other regiments
named have, however, conferred with
the provisions of the order, and left
camp yesterday morning to report to
the War Department as directed.
Col. Male, of the Third Virginia
regiment, yesterday evening reported
to General Wade that his regiment was
in readiness to 60 to Porto Rico. Lieut..
Cooper, regimental quartermaster, has
received orders to at once equip the
regiment, but this work can be done in
very brief time, as the men are prac-
tically ready.
Maj. Gen. Butler reached Manassas
yesterday evening at 5 o'clock, accom-
panied by his staff. He remained
over night. He expe Cts that the troops
now at Clifton will march to Chapel
! Springs to-day, Gen. Butler thinks OF
| locating the soldiers of his division,
now camped near Dunn Loring. near
/ Brentsville, not far from Chapel
Springs. He says they Will not start
for few days.
The time of the departure of the
First Division Corps headquarters and
the hospital corps from Camp Alger has
not yet been determined, but they
probably will leave next Wednesday.
Among the sentences published are
the following: 10 the 3rd Virginia
Private Henry NJ. Patterson, Com
H, IS fine; Fitz Lee Smith, Company A,
six months imprisonment at hard labor
and dishonorable discharge.
A dispatch from Manassas says:
Thousands Of white shelter tents last
night dotted the long historic ridge
near Clifton, on the very ground
where, 81 years ago, Gen. Early's army
rested behind Confederate intrench
ments. The still more historic water
course of Bull Run, lighted by the
bright moon, winds like silver thread
through the extensive forest that skirts
the camp, while eight regiments Of the
Second Army Corps sleep within sight
of the old battle. field.
The army was preceded yesterday by
staff officers, who arranged for the
camp. A little after II o'clock in the
morning the Kansas volunteers pro
ceeded half mile up the ridge and
were allotted space on an elevation
that looks down upon the Southern
Railway tracks in the valley and TANKS
on the left strong redoubt erected by
Gen. Early's soldiers The Third New
York came close behind and were al.
lotted space so that their regimental
lag could float from one corner OF this
Confederate ratification.
The 159th Indiana, the Seventh Hi
nois, the Sixth Pennsylvania, the Third
Missouri, the Second Tennessee and the
First Rhode Island tented on the ridge
in about the order named.
The march from Burke's Station,
where the soldiers camped, was with
out any special incident.
A provo,t guard had been sent in ad-
vance, and soldiers were stationed at
every farmhouse ard cornfeld to keep
their comrades out of mischief The
previous day, while passing a farm
house, when requested to give some
Tennessee soldiers a drink of water,
woman, it is reported, replied that it
would cost 10 cents drink. The story
brought here is that the soldiers, en-
ragged at the answer, looted the house,
stripped it of every eatable from cellar
to garrett, and treated the woman with
great indignity. Several staff officers
have made trips to various outlying
points within the last two days to To-
cate camp that shall be permanent
at least for time. Col. Lusk and Col.
Eieerly, of Gen. Graham's staff, went
out to 1horoughfare Gap yesterday.
They have been in consultation with
ex-Representative E. e. Meredith, OF
this place, who is familiar with the out
lying country. 1t seems to be settled
to day that the camp will be located at
Chapel Springs, which is CD the South
ern Railroad, about four miles west of
here, and q little oyer o mile from Brls-
tow. Ex-Representstive Meredith and
Supt. Ryder, of the Southern Railroad,
visited the site this afternoon, where
the work of preparing it has already be-
gun.
A dispatch from Washington says
the intention now is that after the First
division has joined the Second In the
vicinity of Manassas the troops will re-
main for while and then start on an.
other march toward the Shenandoah
Valley. camping wherever suitable