The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-19
Some of the "Boys" Forced to Carry
Water from One to Three Miles
in the BrOiling Sun.
GENERAL HEALTH is GOOD
ONLY ONE INDIANIAN, PRIVATE NOR
RIS, is SERIOUSLY ILL.
Assignment of the Batteries-Keep-
dents of a Soldiers Life in Camp.
Special to the Indianapolis Iournal.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 1s-For
four hours this afternoon the second section
| of Colonel Smiths regiment of Indiana Vol
unteers lay broiling in the sun, side tracked
between Chattanooga and Chickamauga At
noon the regiment started in cars over the
short distance of nine miles, not reaching it's
destination until the sun had dropped be-
hind the top of Lookout mountain The
regimental staff climbed the hill to Major
| General Brooke's headquarters, where Col.
Smith reported. Assistant Adjutant General
| Sheridan assigned the regiment to the Sec
ond Brigade of the Second Division of the
First Army Corps, the division being under
command of General Arnold In this brig
| ade is the Sixth Ohio and the First West
| Virginia. The camp was ordered pitched
| near Jays hill, which is out the Brotherton
and Reed road, towards the extreme limit of
| the park
| The old Second broke another record in
being the first Hoosier regiment to get up
| its tents the night of it's arrival on the
| grounds. Captain Tarleton, of Company III,
went out to the park with the first section
| of the regiment and secured the removal of
| all the equipment to the tenting ground be-
| fore nightfall. The camp thermometer reg
| stered 80 degrees when the boys began the
| two-mile march over to jays Mill, and as
they disappeared through a vale one of
General Brooke's staff at headquarters COM
mented on the fine appearance of the
Hoosiers. Adjutant Poland, who is an en-
gineer, had the plans for the tenting ground
all prepared before the regiment left Chat
tanooga, and this contributed to the dis
patch with which Colonel Smiths men got
under cover for the night. The health of the
Indiana troops continues excellent. This
|
camp, despite the hot weather.
None of the Indiana colonies has yet
secured temporary command of a brigade,
although this honor has fallen to the colo
nels from one or two other States. An Ohio
colonel is temporarily in command of the
brigade to which Colonel Smiths regiment
is assigned. and Maj. A. T. Atwell, of the
First Ohio Battery, commands the light
tillery brigade to which the Fort Wayne
and Indianapolis batteries have been sent
Ohio batteries and the First Missouri Bat
terry complete this brigade. Colonel Rock
wood, chief ordnance officer here, said to-
night that the Indianapolis batteries would
be equipped with their breech-loading can
non by next Monday. War Department rec
ords showed these batteries to have far
more equipment than they brought, and Col
lockwood did not understand the situation
until the action of the state authorities at
Indianapolis was explained to him.
1.-THE old battery drill will not avail the In
dianapolis crack artillery men much" said
Colonel lockwood, 'as the movements with
the new breech-loading guns quite diff
ferent. The Indiana men who are without
Springfield rifles will be equipped from a
lot that will be here Saturday or Sunday
All the volunteers will bear this type of
arms
The Indiana regiments are widely scat
tered. the acknowledgement ly-
ing nearly two miles from the First, which
in turn is a mile or so to the east of the
batteries. Each regiment will appoint a
man to carry the mail from Lytle postoffice
Ga to which all mail sent to Indiana men
must be addressed.
A wafer famine kept Colonel Studebaker's
squad constantly on the go all day to the
nearest well, mile away, and these men
were exhausted at night. Colonel Gunder's
men, who are in grove southeast of KEEL
lys field and several miles northeast Of
Studebakers, had a similar hardship, going
the same distance, but using a few wagons,
however. Hundreds of soldiers found re-
lief from the heat by bathing in stone
quarry pool but the commanders shut this
off this evening, and tonight squads of
Hoosiers went out to the cold waters of
Chickamauga creek, several miles from their
tents.
An example of the real soldering the In
dianans are experiencing is shown in the
trip of Corporal Myers and Privates Mil
holland, Schurer and Lewis, of Button
who had to carry a barrel of bread four
miles in the hot sun.
Several men of Companies B and NJ, of
Colonel Gunder's regiment. were overcome
by heat. Private w. j. Morris, of Hunting
ton, is very i'll from lung hemorrhage. The
regiment, with the Thirty-first Michigan
and Third Pennsylvania. constitute the
First Brigade of the Second Division, First
Corps.
Inspector Hedrdge reported the camp of
the Indiana batteries as one of the cleanest
in the park.
Terrible Swede" Johnson has rejoned
old Battery A q. l.. p