The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27
IN0IANAs FINE REGIMENT.
SPLENDID BODY Of MEN GATH
Erred FOR THE I61sT.

u.a-iment Formed Under the Pres
dents second Call - Why the
Rerfment Was Numbered the
,etst- The Officers of the Resi-
r,ent-sOmething About the Field
and stafT-Men Make a Splendid
showing on Parade.
There is not a better disciplined, finer
boxing body of men IN the entire Seventh
ARMY Corps than the One Hundred and
sixtv-frst Indiana Regiment, now attach
81 TO the First Brigade of the Second Di-
vision.
The Indiana regiment was organized and
mustered in under President McKinley's
second cali for volunteers, entering the ser
vices at Camp Mount indianapolis on July
Il This regiment had no National Guard
companies to serve as a basis for its for
naijon; it is composed of men from all
walks of life and from all parts of the state
Of Indiana all the way from Michigan City
10 Jehersonville.
Almost every man in the regiment is from
rival life and was without even the exper-
ence which comes from national guard
service which many of the volunteers have
had To this rule there is but one excep-
ton of importance, that being Maj. Peter
SOD who is a regular army officer, and who
has recently rendered his resignation on
account of duties an the regular army to
which he has been called.
Every man in every company of the One
Hundred and Sixty-frst Indiana was sub
iectad TO a rigid examination before leav-
ing his home to join the regiment at Camp
Mount. All Indianapolis the men were again
examined and fourteen per cent. of those
accepted before their arrival were thrown
out there. The result was that an excep-
tionauy fine body of men was secured, and
almost everyone of them is a splendid ply
steal specimen. This is said to have been
the best regiment that left the state under
and lis appearance upon the field certainly
bears out this assertion.
Many of the officers Of the regiment
have had experience in the national guard
service, but they are a class of men who
have rapidly added to their store of knowl-
edge of the matters with which they have
had to deal, and the consequence has been
good work ever since they have been in
the service. Col. Winfield 7. Durbin is just
B proud of the regiment he has under his
command.
There has been much speculation as to
why the regiment was numbered the One
Hundred and SiXty-frst. OF course every
one knows that Indiana has not furnished
that number of regiments within recent
years. The number of this regiment repre-
sents the number of regiments that Indiana
has furnished the union in all the wars
since it became state. The last regiment
before the recent war was numbered One
Hundred and Fifty-siX. That number goes
back to colonial days, and serves as re-
minder of the fact that Indiana has fur
nshed something like $4,000 men to go into
the service of the United States. The first
regiment formed at the outbreak of the
war with Spain was the One Hundred an /
FHty-seventh Indiana, the last was the
One Hundred and Sixty-first This regiment
left Camp Mount on Aug. II, and report
ed at Jacksonville on Aug. IA. The officers,
field, staff and company, in command arc
as follows:
Col. Winfield T. Durbin Anderson, Ind.
Lieut.. Col V. M. Backus, Indianapolis.
%noJS- H. y. hSSIeW, 1iuldlldlIoiiS, anu
M. r. Peterson, L. S. A.
Maj. WiklifB Smith, surgeon, Lieuts.
NJ F. Gerrish and James Wilson assistant
surgeons
Capt. w. E. Beiderwolf, chaplain.
Lieut.. j. R. Brunt, quartermaster and
acting commissary officer.
Lieut.. o. NJ. Tichenor, adjutant.
Sergt Maj. w. T. Starr.
Quartermaster Sergeant Baird D. Saltz-
gaber.
Hospital Steward William H. Rathert.
Company A-Capt Lee NJ. Olds, First
Lieutenant George NJ. 'Silverthorn, Second
Lieutenant August Johnson.
Company B-Capt. Winston Mengies,
First Lieutenant Asa B. Williams, Second
Lieutenant Percy WEIGH.
Company C-Capt. Thomas ]. Hudgins,
First Lieutenant George E. Goodrich, Sec
ond Lieutenant Ivy L. Reynolds.
Company D-Capt. Charles E. Cosby,
FIRST Lieutenant Cyrus A. Jackson, Sec
ond Lieutenant Richard W. Buchanan.
Company E-Capt. Lewis C. Baird, First
Lieutenant James w. Fortune, Second
Lieutenant VIM. W. Croker.
Company F-Capt. Will NJ. Smith, First
Lieutenant Paul Comstock, Second Lieu
tenant Elmer E. KimmeI.
Company G-Capt. Albert D. Ogden.
- LlSuleHaht James L. Meyers, second
Lieutenant Charles NJ. Pitman
Company H-Capt. James NJ. Gwinn,
rIrst Lieutenant H. B. Patten, Second
Lieutenant George H. Caldwell.
Company I-Capt. VIM. Guthrie, First
Lieutenant Anthony A Anheire, Second
Lieutenant John Ward.
company K-Capt. Wilfred T. Scott,
First Lieutenant Charles c. Smith, Second
Lieutenant T. II. Owens.
company L-Capt. James L. Anderson,
FHst Lieutenant Eli w. Peterson Second
Lieutenant Charles E. Dority
company M-Capt. George A. West,
F'rs' Lieutenant George w. Fitch, Second
Lieutenant Hanson G. Freeman.
Inc First Battalion is composed of COM
panies a, *, N and F, the second of com
pahles b, D, f and !, and the third of
companies G, II, L and q. All OF the In
u'dAa regiments called out during the
present war, with the exception of the
Ohe Hundred and Sixtieth and One Hun
uIed and Sixty-first have been mustered
out
Noi' Durbin, in command of the regI-
ulent IS prominent private banker of
anderson, Ind. He is we'll known in state
ana national politics, being now the Re-
publican national committeeman for In