The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-05

Col. Barnett's Men Do Not Expect to
Break Camp for Ten Days.

Col. Barnetts Men DO Not Expect to
Break Camp for Ten Days.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CAMP MEADE. Pa. Sept. 4.-No order
has yet been received for the removal of
the Observation-Disclosures -fifty-ninth to Indian
apolis, despite all reports to the contrary.
Company officers are at work with the
papers necessary for furloughing the men.
1t is expected that all such work will be
completed before the regiment will be
moved. The safest estimate will not COM
plete the work before the 10th of the month
The men will not be held at the Indianap-
oils camp more than a few days, as all
papers for furloughs will be ready for
dates and signatures in Camp Meade. The
health of the regiment is improving. Four
teen sick men of the regiment were taken
TO Philadelphia hospitals yesterday on the
hospital train sent out by the city.
An Associated Press dispatch says: New
uniforms have been issued to the One-hun-
acknowledgement Indiana which enjoyed
the unenviable distinction of being the worst
equipped regiment in the Second Corps.
The Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment will be-
gin leaving Camp Meade tomorrow, and
by Tuesday night the entire twelve compan-
les will have gone.
The Twenty-second Kansas and Third
Missouri which have also received orders
to prepare for muster out, will also get
away tomorrow and Tuesday. The First
Rhode Island and Second Tennessee will
probably remain here until cold weather
sets in.
The officers of the Third Missouri to-day
presented the Third New York with a beau
tiful silver loving cup, and each of the COM
panies handsome silk marker with the let
ter of the company printed in gold. The
New Workers became attached to the Mis-
sourians while they were at Camp Alger,
and the good feeling that existed between
them there has &C ntinued at Camp Meade
Privates James and Linton Glover, broth
ers, Company L. Second Tennessee, were
seriously stabbed last night in a quarrel
with Private Pursey of the same company
Private Connolly, Company e, stabbed the
company cook. Charles Johnson.
Captain Gray, Second Tennessee, has been
placed under arrest for insubordinaticn by
order of Colonel Anderson.
Lieutenant Colonel 'I<irkby, Third New
York, has been relieved as provost marshal,
and Lieutenant Colonel Patterson, Second
Tennessee. appointed in his place. Private
Frank E. Welsman, Company H, Tenth
Ohio, Cleveland, died Of typhoid fever in
the division hospital.
General Graham has issued an order di-
recting surgeons at hospitals not to grant
furloughs to any soldiers whom they do not
believe to be able to travel alone. and that
no furloughed soldier shall be allowed to
leave the hospital without being fully in
structed as to the diet he should observe
while travelling to his home. Lieutenant
Colonel Rickerts, of the third battalion of
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, has been di-
rected to report to Colonel Duval, chief ord
nance officer of the Second Corps, the i'm
mediate needs of the battalion. These four
companies expect to be ordered to Porto
Rico to join the regiment.
General Goblin has gone to Cincinnati to
attend the National Encamrment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is
commander-ir-chief