The times., 1898-05-20
Tb[ARMY At CAMP THOMAS
There Are Nearly Thirty Thou
sand Troops Encamped.
A MAGNIFICENT E0DY sOF MEN
The Arrival of Soldiers From New
yania, minnesota and MnSsnchn-
sets SyyeIls the Army TO Formfd-
able Proportions. p"

Chattanooga. May 19.-Volunteers from
New York have Joined the big army at
| Camp Thomas, This morning the Tweifth
| Infantry New York Volunteers, came In
! over the Southern Railway. = tired and
| dusty after hot night in the crowded
cars The New Workers reached here
! about o'clock. headed by Col. Leonard
An hour later the troops were. speeding ]
! to Chickamauga.
With today's arrivals, nearly sO.oO8
troops are in camp The First Regiment
to reach the park this morning was the
! First Illinois Infantry. Col Turner. This
is the most thoroughly equipped that has
yet arrived. The men are not strangers
| in Chickamauga having been here two
| years ago. IMP ~
The Kansas regiment has the honor of
| being the first full regiment of new re-
/ cruts that has as yet arrived in Chatta-
nooga- The men are entirely, without
arms and equipments and the majority
/ of them are recruits who enlisted on the
I plains of Western Kansas. The regiment
was mustered and sworn in al Topeka
| last Saturday night and was ordered TO
/ leave for Chickamauga on Monday.
I'D to this time, the Pennsylvania is rep
! resented by the largest number on the
field. The Fourth Pennsylvania infantry
/ was among today's arrivals. The resl-
! ment is one of the oldest in the State
and has seen active service. The Ninth
Pennsylvania Infantry came in this
morning from Mount Gretna. The regl-
( ment is commanded by Col. Dousherty.
/ The companies were organized entirely
in LuZerne County.
The Twelfth Minnesota. which came IN
late last night, reached Camp Thomas this
| morning and was soon in camp in the by
L er field The regiment was first organized
I in 1882 and was mustered into the regular
service on May near st. Paul The COM
panies are equipped with Springfield RI
fies, tentage, rations. hospital corps ana
a band of twenty-four pieces
The first regiment TO arrive from the
| far Eastern States was the Eighteenth
/ Massachusetts. which came in on the
Southern Railway in three sections at
| a m. There are 943 men in the regiment.
which is commanded by Col. Pew. The
| men have two uniforms each, the regular
blue and one of brown canvas, regulation
| shoes Springfield rifles. a hospital corps,
a drum corps and a band OF twenty-four
| pieces and twelve horses. This afternoon
| the Massachusetts, troops were under tent
! al Camp Thomas. -,
The last detachment of the First Penn
| SylVania infantry came INTO camp tOudy.
| II got off the cars at o'clock this morn
ing and lined up along the midway, close
by the telegraph office, and rested there
until it's camping grounds had been as
signed by Capt. Richards. 1t was the
second battalion of the regiment. The
first battalion had arrived yesterday and
had been quartered for the night on the
grounds near the station. The regiment
has been assigned TO the Third Brigade of
the Second Division. which brings ii un-
der the command of Gen. Arnald. Being
brigaded in this way throws it into COM
pany of the Second Ohio and Fourteenth
Minnesota. It's assignment to this Lrig
ade. together with the assignment of the
Fourteenth Minnesota, completes the
Third Brigade. -....-.
Gen. Bates. formerly colonel OF the Sec
ond Infantry and one of the recently ap-
pointed brigadiers. was today assigned
to the command of the third division the
organization of which began today, When
this division is completed the first pro-
vsional army corps will have been es-
tablished.
1t has been rumored that Gen. Brooke
is 10 be placed in charge of the depart
ment of the Gulf and will remove his
headquarters to Atlanta. AS yet this re-
port has not been confirmed. There has
been a strong possibility that Gen. Brooke
will not be kept at Chickamauga after the
formation of the volunteers has been COM
pleted- Many men were expected in
few days.
1t cannot yet be definitely said what two
major generals will be retained here. But
il is probable that Gen. Wilson and Gen.
Wade will be placed in command of the
Chickamauga corps.
At Camp Black.
Hampstead Plains, L. l., May 19-The
great city of white tents is dwindling
away. Already a regiment has gone from
either end and one from the center aud
the others. divided by the bare, trodden
spaces where the departed troops lay. are
impatient to be off.
Preparations for leaving were nearly
completed last night by the Second Pro-
visional Regiment and at daybreak this
morning II began to strike camp There
We're few visitors, for the homes of the
men are far up the State. By sunrise the
trim camp was broken up and the semb-
lance of streets disappeared. Two hours
later tents and baggage were of to the
station and the troops were ready TO
march. The band of Troop A led them
to the trains, which were waiting on a
side track.
There were no sad farewells or enthu-
siastic crowds. but the boys of the Third
and Sixty-ffth Regiments gave hearty
cheers to their departing comrades. Ev-
erything moved smoothly and expedi-
tiously, for Col. Hardin is an Army man.
and the Second Regiment got away with
out delay. Major General Roe and Ma
jor Greer rode to the station to say good
by to Col. Hardin.
The Sixty-ffth, of Buffalo will leave
tomorrow afternoon for the SWsashington
rendezvous. The Third Regiment expects
orders al any moment, and the First and
SiXty-ninth are ready to be mustered in.
Physical examinations in the Twenty-sec-
ond were finished tonight. and the men
hope to enter the Federal service on FRI
day.
This leaves only the Forty-seventh un-
accounted for. There are no indications
that it will be ready for mastering in
within seven or eight days. The Forty
seventh carries 300 recruits, who are with
out uniforms or equipments and in a
general way the regiment is in state of
unreadiness 1t has good officers. how
ever, and should pull up rapidly Near
ly 20 per cent of the men failed to pass
the physical examination, so that 200 re-
cruits are needed at once.
All but one man in Troop A. and all
but three is Troop c passed the surgeons,
and the cavalrymen are Impatient to
take the oath in the United States. serv-
ice.
In the matter of titles, it was noticed
today that the Third Regiment is pe.
culiarly fortunate. Col Hoffman and
Lieut.. Col. Kirby have both been briga-
der generals, and two others of the field
officers have held higher rank than they
now possess. To add to the list Col. AL
bert ]. Myer, of Buffalo, of Gov. Black S