Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-20

Chickamauga, Ga, July 19.-There is
| no longer any doubt that Camp Thomas
Is going to furnish a large force of
troops for the Porto Rico expedition.
The details cannot be had tonight, but
1t is safe to assert that two divisions
| and probably more of the First Corps
will be ordered out and the movement
is expected to begin tomorrow or
Thursday.
Gen. Brooke will be at the park to-
morrow, at which time all the details
will be arranged
The following organizations were to-
day placed under orders to go to New
port News, from which point they will
embark for Porto Rico: The Second
brigade of the First division, First
corps, consisting of the Fourth Penn
sylvania, Fourth Ohio and Third Illi-
nois, under command of Brigadier Gen
eral Haines; Light Batter B, of Penn
sylvania; A, of Missouri; A, of Illi-
nois, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana
battery; the signal corps, under Major
Glassford, the reserve hospital corps,
under Major Smith, and the reserve am
bulance company, under Major Frank
Boyd.
That these will all go Thursday there
yo h. IL 3eS
than likely that larger force than this
will be started by that time.
Major Ney. commissary Of subsist-
ence, of the Chattanooga military sup
ply depot, is receiving large quantities
of rations daily which would seem to
indicate that a still larger force of SOL
diers will be sent to Chickamauga
To-day he unloaded thirty-one cars OF
provisions, mostly meat sugar. flour
and coffee. A still larger number Of
cars are expected to arrive tomorrow.
So far Major Ney has received no or
der to ship provisions south.
Capt. Rockwell, of Gen. Brooke's
staff, has been promoted to a colonelcy
Col. Rockwell has been at the head Of
the ordnance department and will con-
tinue in that position. The colonel is
one of the hardest worked men at
Camp Thomas.
Adjutant General Otto L. Sues, of Col.
Grigsby's cowboys, to-day began the in
struction of officers of the regiment in
sabre movements. This practice will be
continued every day, Adjutant Sues in
structing the officers and they in turn in
structing their men. Adjutant Sues is an
experienced swordsman, probably one of
the best in the country.
The carbine scabbards for the regiment
have been received at the camp and the
regiment is now fully equipped with the
exception of a few minor supplies. The
men are also becoming well drilled and
Col. Grigsby says that his regiment is
ready to go anywhere and do all kinds
of fighting 1t is claimed that the regi-
ment is the best equipped and the best
drilled of any regiment OF voluntary cav
airy in the army.
All arrangements have been completed
for the brigade review which occurs one
day this week Those who will be in the
review are the cowboys, the first Illinois
cavalry and the First Kentucky cavalry.
Twenty-Five hundred horses will be on
the field at one time executing the various
cavalry movements, and the sight will be
quite interesting and well worth seeing.
Gen. Compton's men of the second di-
vision third corps, are now arranging the
new rifle ranges and will get down TO
practice at once. The general states that
the equipment of his division is almost
complete. the regiment only lacking
few articles of various kinds.