Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-21
CAMP POWERS,
The lst Regiment Will Be Paid at
Muster Out.
Battery officers Hope to Move All Sick to
Hospital Building.

livery udy HOW pIiHSS the day of the
desertion of Camp Powers nearer an6
it is probable that within two weeks
the place that has been almost contin.
uously occupied since May 2, will be {
deserted field. at least so they hope.
The LIST Regiment is doing all it car
to bring about this end. and they hope
to be away before Saturday night, with
perhaps the exception of Quartermas.
ter Murch. and Colonel Kendalps RICH,
hand man. Clerk Burden. The tents
house in the city, and all is being ar.
ranged so that the guard of the cam;
can be released.
The muster officer will arrive in Au.
gusta to muster out Co. F, about
November 4 and 5 according to the
present plans. Four days will be al
lowed in Portland for the four Port.
land companies. Then two days each
will be allowed the other companies in
the following order: Westbrook, Nor
way, Lewiston, Auburn, Augusta
Rockland, Brunswick, Biddeford, and
then the field. staff, and band at Port
land.
1t is well known that there have
been enough of the officers asked to be
retained in the service to make up a
battalion, but whether they will be
kept is a question. So far as known,
no provision has been made for their
retainment, yet something may be ar
ranged before the time of the muster
out occurs. Whether they could get
men enough to remain in the service
to fill out the battalion is still another
question, that is unanswered. Certain
ly many wish to remain, but over 400
are required.
The men will receive their pay at the
time they are mustered out, even if
they have had no chance to sign the
pay roll. Each roll is inspected after
it is made out here, and then it is for
warded to the paymaster who will
make out the pay roll accordingly. The
men will sign the pay roll at the time
they are paid.
The LIST Regiment has now virtually
abandoned the hospital, as only two
were there over Thursday night, and
the battery officers hope to see their
men moved to this building from the
fields hospitals, today, as the plans for
this movement have been made
One man was added to the list of the
typhoid patients, Thursday, and he
was the first one for five days.
The two sickest now are Watts and
Demmons both of whom are critically
i'll. The movement over into the wood
en- buildings is thought will be for the
good of the sick men, as a tent at this
season of the year can not be made
draught proof. For that matter the
wooden buildings are not draught proof
but they are better than a tent
The jaundice continues to rage
and many have it in greater or
less degree, some almost too sick to
work on account of it.
Quartermaster Dutton. who has been
i'll at Hotel North, is improving and
was able to ride out Thursday after
noon.
The on-commissioned officers IF
Battery D. gave Lieutenant and Mrs.
Edward Spear a handsome butter
dish, Thursday, as wedding present
The Journal said recently that the
Odd Fellows of Skowhegan had pre-
scented Lieutenant Spear with a pretty
charm. The present from the Odd Fell
lows to the lieutenant was ring,
while the charm came from another
source.
Corporal Stone of Battery D, who has
been ill at his home in Skowhegan, has
returned to duty.
w. B. Pierce, clerk to Captain KIM
ball of Battery D, is at his home in
South Norridgewock, suffering from
severe cold.