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Troops Leave Chickamauga

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chickamauga Park, July 25. - General Brooke and statï left in the afternoon on a special train for Newport News, Va., whence they go to Porto Rico. The train was made up of a private car occupied by General Brooke, two Pullman sleepers and two baggage cars. It went over the Queen and Crescent, via Lexington, Ky., and Richmond, Va. The departure of General Brooke leaves Major General J. F. Wade in command of Camp Thomas. At an early hour the reserve hospital corps, reserve ambulance corps, the signal corps, Troop H of the Sixth United States cavalry, Bnd Company F, Eighth United States infantry left on special trains for Newport News. The several commands marched flve miles to Rossville, where they were loaded on special trains. Four light batteries of artillery - A of tllinois, B of Pennsylvania, A of Missouri, and the Twenty-seventh Indiana -have also left for Newport News. The whole of the First corps, with the exception of two brigades of the First división, is now en route and leaves next ■week for Porto Rico. It is composed as follows: Fifth Illinois, Third WisconEin, First Kentucky, Thirty-first Michigan, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana, First Georgia, Sixth Ohio, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana, First West Virginia, Second Ohio, First Pennsylvania, Fourteenth Minnesota, Seventeenth Minnesota. First South Carolina, Fifth Pennsylvania, Eighth Massachusetts, Twenty-flrst Kansas, Twelfth New Tork, Ninth Pennsylvania, Second Missouri, and First New Hampshire. It is announced here that immediate!y after the several corps have left Chickamauga Park the organization o{ the Sixth corps, to be commanded by Major General James H. Wilson, wil] be begun and completed. The corps ■will consist of twenty-seven regiments from the second cali for volunteers, numbering in all 36,000.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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