The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24


The arrangements for the departure of
General Brooke and staff were concluded
by noon to-day. His train was made up at
Battlefield station and was composed of one
private car for General Brooke. two Pull
mans and one baggage car The party was
made up of the following members Of Gen.
eral Brooke's staff:
Gen. NJ. v. Sheridan chief of staff
First Lieut.. JAS 7. Dean, Fourteenth In
fantry, A. ID. c.
Lieut.. Chas. w. Castle, acting A. d. C.
Lieutenant Colonel Richards, adjutant
general
Lieut.. Col P. d. vrooms. inspector gen.
eral
Lieut.. Col. G. w. Goethals, chief engineer
Lieut.. Col. r. Huidekoper, chief sur
geon.
Lieut.. Col. James Rockwell, jr.. chief ord
nance officer
Lieut.. Col. Henry J. Sharp. chief of COM
missary.
Lieut.. Col. ]. NJ. Carson. chief quarter
master.
Lieut.. Col. Edward Hunter. judge advo-
cate.
Mai ]. A. Glassford. chief signal officer.
Captain Campbell assistant quarter
master.
Mag. {. f. Mason, medical inspector.
General Brooke and his entire staff were
dressed in their new kharki uniforms and
they made most impressive display as
they entered the cars. The excitement at
the park was great and every soldier who
could get away from his camp was at the
uepot to sec them off. When the train
pulled out at the little station about 2:3O
O'Clock rousing cheer went up that re-
sounded throughout the entire camp and
was echoed from thousands of throats.
The generals train reached the city about
$3.50. having been delayed at several points
because of freight trains in the way The
train remained in the city on account Of a
delay In getting the baggage and other
equipment from the park TO the city. until 7
o'clock in the evening. when the start was
made from Lexington, on the Cincinnati
southern, and thence to Newport News nv
the Chesapeake & Ohio. Mrs Brooke. Mrs
Sheridan, Mrs. Dean and Mrs Richards ac-
company the party to Newport News to see
the ships off.
Inc reserve ambulance company and hos
pital corps under Colonel r. Huidekoper
Chief surgeon, marched into Rossyille early
this morning and loaded their effects. Then.
the signal corps, under Major Glassford
and the headquarters guard a detachment
of the Eighth United States Infantry. un-
der command of Captain Pitcher Joined
them and were off for Newport News early
in the afternoon, taking the same route as
the brigade that left yesterday. No other
organization left the park to-day and no or
ders relative to further movement were
issued aside from the orders in vogue.
Colonel Lee. chief quartermaster was
hor o.lxk I,
ther details for the transportation of the
troops yet to go. He said that there were
no more troops under direct orders to GO,
except the four light batteries, which will
leave Camp Thomas at 6 o'clock tomorrow
morning. These are battery A, of Missouri;
Battery A, of Illinois; Battery b, of Penn
sylvania, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana
battery.
While no other troops have been ordered
out, the next brigade in succession which
is the Third Brigade Of the First Division,
First Corps, has been ordered to hold itself
in readiness and will be ordered out just as
soon as the necessary transports can be ar
ranged. Colonel Lee said is was the plan as
he understood, to move the force as rapid
ly as possible and that the only thing now
standing in the way Of a more rapid move
ment was the lack of transports.
1t is now generally understood among the
regiments of the First Corps Inat they are
all to go 10 Porto Rico and the matter is
being exultantly discussed by both the off,
GERS and enlisted men. While the men have
all along been eminently satisfied with
Chickamauga National Park as a camping
ground they are at the same time tired of
the routine of camp duty and are longing
for more thrilling incidents, such as they
expect will occur when they stand face to
face with the enemy. The regiments which
expect to go to Porto Rico are:
Fifth Illinois.
Third Wisconsin.
First Kentucky.
Sixteenth Pennsylvania
Second Wisconsin.
Third Kentucky.
Thirty-first Michigan.
One-hundred- and d-sixtietk Indiana.
First Georgia.
Sixtieth Ohio.
ne-hundred-and-fifty- y-eighth Indiana
First West Virginia.
Second Ohio.
First Pennsylvania.
Fourteenth Minnesota.
Twelfth Minnesota
First South Carolina.
Fifth Pennsylvania.
Eighth Massachusetts.
Twenty-first Kansas.
Twelfth New York.
Ninth Pennsylvania.
Second Missouri.
First New Hampshire.
1t is announced here that Immediately
after the First Corps shall have left Chicka-
mauga Park the organization of the Sixth
Corps, to be commanded by Maj. Gen.
James H. Wilson, will be begun and COM
pleted. The corps will consist of twenty
seven regiments from the second call for
volunteers, numbering in all thirty-sx thou
sand men. While the First Corps is moving
the park officials. it is understood, will per-