The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-31
NO AMBULANCE IN CAMP.
Sick Lieutenant Had to Be Carried by
Twelve Men.

Correspondence of the Journal
PORT TAMPA CITY, Fla, Headquarters
Of the e-hundred-and- ffty-seventh In
diana Volunteers, July 2S-About 6 o'clock
last evening First Lieut.. Will w. Kerr, of
Company B, Fort Wayne, who has been
confined to the hospital for several weeks,
was taken to st. Petersburg Fla, as the
regiment will move to Fernandina to-mor-
row. Twelve men from Company B carried
Lieut.. Kerr on litter to Port Tampa, a
distance of one and a half miles. The trip
had to be made through the wet grass and
over the rough palmetto roots. Lieut. Kerr
is a man of heavy build and the men were
ready to drop when they arrived at the end
of their journey. All this inconvenience is
due to the fact that this regiment has no
ambulance, on account of the unwise con-
centration at division hospital which is sit
uated fifteen miles from camp. There
ought to be some way to remedy this defect
and the ones at fault brought to time. -
The regiment has from time to time made
efforts to get an ambulance, but was I'M
successful. 1t is about time that the di-
vision hospital authorities open their eyes
and see the state of things.
About two years ago Private William
Leighty of St Joe, Ind, member of Com
pany K made a visit to Cuba of about
three months duration. He explored the
country quite thoroughly, and should the
occasion arise he would make good guide
lOf the regiment.
Private Lee H. Pillars, of Company D,
North Manchester, has been assigned to the
band as cornet player; Private Dan Knisely,
of Company D, has been assigned to the
band as bass drum player.
Private Burge Scheafer, of the hospital
corps, and Quartermaster's Clerk Killen
went on an alligator expedition yesterday
afternoon. They took their Springfield rifles
with them. Both are considered the crack
shots of Company B, Fort Wayne.
This. afternoon the First Ohio Regiment
Inff fN~
airy camp. The Buckeyes sent Loud cheers
into the air and made great hurrah when
they heard the news. They will break camp
tomorrow morning at 3 O'clock. The Third
Pennsylvania and the observation-disclosures
fifty-seventh Indiana will follow in a few
Gays. The men are all anxious to move
Reginald w. Garstang has already arrived
there with the division hospital. and in a
letter to a friend states that it is very much
higher than our present location.
Last evening the regimental band fur
nished the music to dance at the summer
pavilion of DR.; Attire, near Ballast Point.
about two miles from camp. DR.. Attire
whose home is in Tampa, is very wealthy
Pay day is again very near On good au-
thority it is stated that the commissioned
officers will receive pay for the fourteen
days between April &C. the time they were
called out by the State, and May 10, the
date of muster into United States service.
A recruiting officer will soon be sent to
Fort Wayne to recruit twenty-six men nee
essary to fill up Companies B and G. This
will give the anxious ones at home another
chance to enlist
The following resolutions have been
passed in honor of the death of the late
Lieut.. Charles Slade: THE officers of the
Observation-Disclosures y-seventh Indiana Vol
unteers hereby express to the aged father
and to the brothers and sisters of Lieut.
Charles Slade their sncerest sympathy in
the bereavemnt that has come to them i'm
his death. We gladly bear record to the
fact that our association with Lieut.. Slade
had commended him to our cordial respect
Major E. H. Fitzgerald, Capt c. S. Med
bury, Capt. B. F. Clemens"
Captain Dennisons company. I, is doing
guard duty on the docks at Port Tampa,
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