The evening times., 1898-05-10
THE ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS
Camp Thomas Enthusiastic Over
Its Expected Arrival.
AMERICAS CONQUERING HOST
90. 900 Men VIII Soon Join Their
Comrades on the HistOric Camp
ing GrOund-Preparatio to Re-
cefve the Great Army Gen.
Brooke to Commend.

| Chattanooga, Tenn. May 10.-The coming
of the great army of volunteers is all the
talk at Camp Thomas and Chattanooga
Is excited over the expected invasion.
/ Many of the officers think the volunteers
should begin 10 arrive this week as sew
! eral regiments have now been mustered
/, in. Adjutant General Sheridan, however
/ does not hold that view. He said today:
! We have no later Information in re-
gard TO the arrival of the volunteers than
that which reached us yesterday. The
| notification. which came from Gen. AL
| ger, said that some JO.00o troops would be
modified here. Just now these troops
are being examined by army medical
men and mustered in. That kind of work
! progresses slowly. The present emer-
gency is not so great that the Govern
ment cannot be particular in regard TO
the physical condition of its volunteers.
The examinations are made at the rate
of about twenty-five day
| 1T will take quite while to form an
army of 125.00o men al that rate. 1 do not
expect any arrivals of volunteers this
week. 1t will be ten days before they be-
gin to arrive
Gen. Boynton. of the Park Commission,
was busy today preparing for the recep-
| tion of the great army. Tonight he said:
The troops will come from about four
teen or fifteen States. There will be 80 =
600 men. Thirty-seven regiments of in
| fantry, two regiments of cavalry and
nine batteries of light artillery. These
| troops will be coming as quickly as they
can be mustered into service
Gems. Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph II. Wheel
er and Wilson will command. reporting
to Gen. Brooke, who will be the ranking
major general
THE purpose of assembling this army
| here is to organize it into corps, brigades
and divisions. The volunteers will be
used to fill up the brigades of the regular
army now below a war basis in point of
! numbers. Three corps will be here
THE volunteers will be camped in the
| woods east of the Lafayette Road. This
location will place them along the banks
of Chickamauga Creek where there is
plenty of water for the men and horses
We have been preparing for the volun-
teerS for some time and will now rush
preparations. Mr.. Belts and myself have
been hunting everywhere for machinery
and pumps 10 drill wells. We will have
an abundant supply of water. The Park
can In addition to the regulars easily ac-
commOdate $1,000 troops. The artillery
WILL / presume. be stationed on the
ground vacated by the regular army"
The first consignment of equipments for
recruits arrived yesterday and was dis
tributed. Several small squads of volun-
teers came in today. Two million rations
recently shipped to the provisional army
from Chicago have not yet arrived. The
new warehouse erected at Battlefield sta
tion will be ready for their reception.
Sixty caissons arrived from the armory
at Washington this morning. They are
intended for volunteer batteries There
are no batteries of artillery of the regular
Army now here. Each division command
er of troops now here will appoint an act
ing ordnance officer who will have charge
of the division ammunition train, and of
all ordnance and ordnance stores that
may be required for the use of the bri-
gade and division headquarters. Troops
and company commanders will retain in
their command only such amounts of am
munition as can be carried on the SOL
diers person. 100 rounds of rifle or car
bine ammunition and IS rounds Of revol-
yer ammunition for each man Of their
maximum strength and they turn over to
the acting ordnance officer Of the regf-