The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

AT 8 o'clock the camp had settled
down to a great extent. The Tenth
Regiment had gotten In and taken up
its quarters. Guards we're mounted
around the comp, but considerable lax
ness was allowed in consideration of its
being the first night. Many of the
boys came across the river TO Salts
burg and had gay old time. This is
local option town, but IL you know
the ropes there Is plenty to drink. TO
strangers the local option law was suf-
hcient to cut off the Intoxicating bev-
erages, but they enjoyed themselves
nevertheless A tin horn brigade held
the depot and tin pan crowd the
main street. Every nook and Granny
of the town was explored, and the boys
reported that the only thing remarka-
BILE about it was the number of drug
toresand the extreme partiality shown
by the girls for the men in brass but
tons and blue clothes.
At the camp the scene was very
pretty. The moon was out in all it's
glory without cloud dense enough to
even dim the flood of light. Every
| tent could be seen as plainly as in
| broad day; the regimental bands were
playing, a score of glee clubs singing,
and the gallant serenader held the
| fort.
The Fourteenth headquarters Is
| frightened by the presence of num-
ber of ladies. who were delighted with
| their first experience in the tented
field. The discipline was not strict,
and the merriment was kept up until
it died away naturally, long after mid
night.
Wednesday morning 1t was all busi-
1 ~ Nhxa II rttN,N IN.n Il
squads policing the grounds Brush,
weeds and stones were cleared away
rapidly, and the streets on which the
tents face in a few hours wore a new
look. Guards were mounted and pa
troled the camp. Gen. Beaver visited
the regimental headquarters, and there
was considerable interchange of visits
among the officers.
The Sixteenth, Col. John A. Wiley,
came in at 7:20 and the Titusville Bat
terry at l0:30, leaving but two gaps to
be filled, the quarters of the Fifth aud
Sixteenth Regiments Signs began to
go up as the boys began to get little
leisure. A photographer opened upto
a good business, and barber shops were
sticking all around.
A sutler with flag-bedecked booth
was inside the fence and two or three
outside. The sutler profiting by his
experience of a year ago, when he was
raided by the boys for extortion,
charged reasonable prices Gen. Beaver
shut down on number of teaIusters
who wanted to make hay too rapidly
while the sun shone. They were de
manding one dollar to haul u load
from the station. The General heard
of it and fixed the rate at forty cents,
and even at this figure they could
make ten or twelve dollars day. An
other action of Gen Beavers that was
commended on every side was the
abolishing of all flags, signs, ETC., eX-
cept such as are allowed by military
rules. An order cut this thing oil
short, and it certainly improved the
looks of the camp. If the troops had
kept up the business much longer the
camp would have looked more like a
circus or country fair than like a
military town. In some of the regi-
ments it was not practiced to any great
extent; in others il was carried to ex,
tremes.
A walk through the camp and an in
spect;On of the various quarters showed
plainly the difference in the men in
the service. An order against going
, to Salisbury and the knowledge that Q
, guard held the bridge, while detail.
were ready to arrest any who might
succeed in getting into the town, kept
) the men in camp, giving a good op
portunity to see them all. The tent.
told the pecuiarities of their owners
In one tent there would be nothing
but what the orders demand. In thu
. next everything that could be seen
, while in many pictures and ornament.
: were plentiful. The prettiest tent il
: the camp is that where Mai Speer o
the Eighteenth reigns supreme. 1t il
= fioored and neatly carpeted. Two iron
= bedsteads, mirror, wash stand, tabl
! and score of articles tending to til,
I luxurious are scattered about, making
the canvas house fit for lady's bou
: doir. The officers tents, as rule, ar
;. well fitted up, but not even brigade o
a any of the regimental headquarters
e could touch Maj. Speer's.
@ AT 8 o'clock the Fifth marched t
q the camp, and at 9 o'clock the Six
Il teenth marched on to the grounds
s making the brigade full. Gen. Latt
arrived here Thursday morning, as pc
: the following dispatch received b.
o Gen. Beaver:
o ~ will reach inspection with nun
/ her of our own and division staff O.
/. arrival of Cincinnati Express Thur.
g day morning. Gen. Hartranft will b
q delayed one day to attend the funers
l. of Gen. Patterson.
, JAMES w. LATTA.
r: The troops in camp number betwee
r twenty-six and twenty-seven hundre,
e Starting at the right of the line tn
e commands are as follows: Eighteent
y Regiment, Col. Guthrie, 432 mel
d Fifteenth Regiment, Col. Carpente
h 450 men; Fourteenth Regiment, Co
,e Gray, 400 men; Fifth Regiment, Co
le Burchfield, 40 men. The Fifth
Is drawn from number of towns; Co.
is comes from Ebensburg; Is, Bellefont
1t e, Hollidaysburg; d, Salisbury;
l. Indiana; G., Lewistown; H, John
to town; I, Bedford. 1t has but eigl
ID companies, the recent reduction Gu
b. ting out some of its companies. Si,
teenth Regiment, Col. Wiley, 50S mel
of Like the Fifth, the Sixteenth is sea
r tered. A is located at Cory; b, Fri
rs G, Bradford; ID, Oil City; Z, Cooper
er town; f, Franklin; G, Erie; 1, Wa
os ren; H, Ridgway. Several of its cor
" panies have regulations as organic
lp tons, A being the well-known Vince
lie Guards; b the Ellie Guards, and G Il
er Governors Guards. The regiment
a. remarkable for the number of vetera
in who are in its ranks. Both Col. viii,
d, and Lieut.-Col. Clark were out in Il
ds "unpleasantness," Col, Wiley beil
or in the Reserves and Col. Clark in Il
Eighty third, in, honor of whose de-
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