The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-08
Third, Fifth and sixth Corps Discon-
and Fourth Rearranged.
NEW CAMPS IN THE SOUTH
BRECKINRIDGE, GRAHAM AND
WHEELER TO BE IN COMMAND.
16Oth Indiana In First Brigade, Sec
Ond Division, First Corps Major
Generals and Brigadiers Dropped.

WASt1lNGION, Oct. IA general order
was issued to-day organizing new army
corps and designating various points where
the troops shall be stationed. The Third,
Fifth and Sixth Corps are discontinued and
the First, Second and Fourth Corps reor-
ganized They are to be commanded, re-
spectively, by Major Generals Breckenridge.
Graham and Wheeler. The headquarters of
each will be: First Corps, Macon. Ga; Sec
ond Corps, Augusta, Ga; Fourth Corps,
Huntsville, Ala. The full text of the order
follows:
BY direction of the secretary of war, the
Third, Fifth and Sixth Army Corps are dis
continued. The First, Second and Fourth
Army Corps will be reorganized and as
signed to camps as below specified:
FIRST ARMY CORPS.
Maj. Gen. j. c. Breckenridge, u. S. ".
commanding. Headquarters at Macon, Ga.
First Observation-Disclosures at Macon
First Brigade, Atlanta Ga.-Thirty-
Michigan. Fourth Tennessee and Sixth
Second Brigade, Macon. Ga.-Third u s.
ginia.
Third Brigade. Macon, Ga.-Tenth u. S.
V. infantry and Seventh u. S. V. Infantry.
Second Observation-Disclosures at Column
bus, Ca
First Brigade, Columbus. Ga-First West
Virginia. e-hundred-and-sixtieth Indi-
ana and Third Kentucky.
Second Brigade, Americas. Ga.-Eighth
Massachusetts. Twelfth New York and
Third North Carolina. 5.
Third Brigade. Albany, Ga-Second Mis-
souri,, Third Mississippi and First Terri
torial u. S. V. Infantry
SECOND ARMY CORPS
Maj. Gen. VIM. M. Graham, u S. ". COM
handing. Headquarters at Augusta, Ca
First Observation-Disclosures at Au-
First Brigade. Augusta Ga.-Tenth Ohio
First Maryland and Third Michigan.
Second Brigade SummeryiIle, s. C:-Four-
Ninth Ohio (battalion.)
Third Brigade, Augusta, Ga.-Thirteenth
Pennsylvania, Eighth Pennsylvania and
Fifteenth Pennsylvania.
Second Division-H Headquarters at Green
vile, S. c.
First Brigade, Greenville, S. C.-Two-
hundred-and-t third New York, Second West
Virginia and Fourth New Jersey.
Fourth Missouri, Fifth Massachusetts and
Two hundred nd-frst New York.
Third Brigade. Columbia. s CIFirst
Delaware.
Third Observation-Disclosures at Athens,
Ca
First Brigade, Athens, Ga.-Fifteenth
Pennsylvania, Third New Jersey and Two
hundred-and-second New York.
Second Brigade, Athens, Ga.-Third Geor-
gia ana Twenty-second New York.
FOURTH ARMY CORPS.
Maj Gen. Joseph Wheeler. U. s. ", COM
handing. Headquarters at Huntsville, Ala.
First Observation-Disclosures at Hunts
vile, Ala
First Brigade, Huntsville, Ala.-Sixteenth
United States Infantry and Ninth New
York.
Second Division Headquarters at Annis-
ton, Ala
r1ns- L. ~
second U. S. Infantry, Fourth Kentucky
and Third Alabama.
Second Brigade. Admission. Ala--second
Arkansas, Third Tennessee and Fourth
Cavalry Brigade. Huntsville Ala-second
U. s. Cavalry, Sixth U. S. Cavalry and
Artillery battalion 1.-TWO batteries, A and
F, Second. attached to headquarters.
The movement involved in the above
directed reorganization and assignment will
commence under the direction of corps COM
manders on Oct. 81. AS far as practicable
they will be so timed that only one regi-
ment shall reach particular camp on the
same day The order next gives directions
to officers designed to secure good accom-
modatons for the men and closes as fol-
lows: ut will be borne in mind that the
troops who are to occupy the camps herein
provided for are to be prepared and held in
readiness for services in Cuba. They may
be ordered to that island on short notice,
either by regiments or brigades.''
About the time the movement of the Lee
command begins another movement will
take place of troops now in the Middle
States towards the Southern camps which
have been selected by the Schwan board,
lying in Georgia, South Carolina and Ala
bama. This will result in the abandonment
KY, and Knoxville. The Southern camps
are to be laid out in the best form with
all the improvements that the experience
Of the last summer has dictated Wherever
permanent buildings will conduce to the
comfort and health of the troops they are
to be erected, although the commanding
officers are to keep in mind at all times
the propriety of avoiding enervation of the
men by keeping them too closely indoors
and away from camp life.