Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19
GREELY AND HIS PARTY
The Crew Now Locked Fast In . Prisou
Of Ice.

According to special order No. g. dated
Washington, June II, 1881, by direction Of the
Secretary OF War, the following named officers
and enlisted men were assigned to duty as the
expeditionary force to Lady Franklin bay, and
constitute the members of the Arctic colony:
First Lieutenant A. w. Greedy, fifth cavalry,
acting signal officer and assistant; Second Lieu
tenant Frederick F. Kislingbury, eleventh in
fantry, acting signal ofiicer; Second Lieutenant
James B. Lockwood, twenty third infantry, act
Ing signal officer; Sergeant Edward Israel. signal
corps, United States Army: Sergeant Winfield g.
Jewell, signal corps. United States Army; Ser
geant George w. Rice, signal corps, United
States Army; Sergeant David C. Ralston. signal
corps, United States Army; Sergeant Hampden
s. Gardiner. signal corps, United States Army:
Sergeant William H. Cross, general service,
United States Army; Sergeant David L. Brain
ard, company l.. second cavalry; Sergeant David
Linn, company C, second cavalry; Corporal Paul
Grimm, company H. eleventh infantry; Corporal
Nicholas Sailor. company H. second cavalry; Cor
pOral Joseph Ellison, company E. tenth infantry;
Private Charles B. Henry company B. fifth cav
cavalry; Private Jacob Bender, company F.
ninth infantry; Private Francis Long, company
F, ninth infantry; Private William Whistler,
company F. ninth infantry; Private Henry Bierd-
erbick. company G, seventeenth infantry; Pri-
vate Julius Fredericks, company L. second cav
airy; Private William A. Ellis, company C,
second cavalry.
CONCERNING THE LEADER.
Newburyport dispatch In the Boston Journal
says: The intelligence relating to the Lieut.
Greedy Arctic expedition creates the most in
tense feeling here, this being the native place
of Lieut.. Greedy. His mother is at present at
Jackson, N. H. His brother, John A. Greedy,
was called upon by the Journal representative
this evening and from him the following par
ticulars are obtained: Lieut.. A. w. Greedy was
born in this city March %, 1874. and entered the
nineteenth Massachusetts regiment in August
1861. He served throughout the entire war
IN the infantry, cavalry and artillery service,
being engaged in twenty battles and wounded
at White Oak Swamp, Antietam and Fredericks-
burg. He was In New Orleans under Gen. New
man and at the close Of the war he was ap-
pointed a cadet from Louisiana by Gen. Grant,
and entered the sixth United States cavalry
serving on the southern frontier, and afterwards
was attached to the Signal Service and built the
telegraph lines fifteen hundred miles in extent
through the state of Texas. In 1881 he was ap-
pointed to take charge Of the Signal service ex-
petition. His last visit was made here May 80
1881, and the last intelligence from him was
dated August 18, 1881, latitude S144 north,
longitude "a. s. west. written in good health
and spirits. He had killed enough musk-Oxen
to last his men for three months. His brother
thinks he will make his way during the season
to some of the caches which have been pro-
visioned for his relief While he is In a condi-
ton to reach supplies, the failure of the relief
expedition OF 1882 to reach Lieutenant Greedy
was great disappointment. and 1t was made
special request that the Proteus, Captain Pike,
who took the party up in 1881, should be sent
this year, and the disaster to the Proteus is re-
garded as very serious for the welfare of the
brave men they were hoping to relieve.
Lieutenant Greedy married, in San Diego, CAL,
Miss Henrietta Nesmith. She is now on her
Ry to Washington, with her two daughters, to
receive intelligence from the expeditions sent
by this government for the relief Of her hus-
band