The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-11
THE 159TH HERE AGAIN
REGIMENT FINDS a DREARY OLD
PLACE AT FAIR GROUNDS.
An Afternoon Parade Each Day--The
Muster Ont Set for No.
vembcr ri.

The companies of the Northumberland
fifty-ninth Regiment returned from their
hfty-three days furlough yesterday and
took their quarters at Camp Mount in the
midst OF cold, drizzling rain. Most of the
men were disposed to face their discom-
forts with light heart and tried to make
themselves comfortable around the fires.
Plenty OF straw was provided for last night
and everything possible was done to make
the barns comfortable. Although quite a
number of the men took advantage of the
confusion to come to the city without leave
OF absence, 1t was against the wish of Col.
John I. Barnett, who wished to retain the
men at the camp. The colonel especially
insisted that the officers should remain with
the men, and told an officer who wished TO
come to the city for his supper that at
least one commissioned officer must remain
with each company all the time and only
permitted the absence of any of the officers
after it was stated that there was nothing
suitable for them to eat. The men have
rations to supply them until Saturday.
when Contractors Burnett & Bryce will
open their restaurant, and feed the regi-
ment under the same regulations which pre-
vailed when they furnished mess for the
One-hundred-an d-fifty-seventh and One
hundred-and-ffty- Regiments. There
were very few absent on account of sick
ness. These We're chiefly cases of typhoid
and malarial fever. Lieut.. Felix Farrow is
the one officer not present He is at the
Fort Myer Hospital. seriously i'll with ty-
phoid fever.
One of the first steps of Colonel Barnett
yesterday was to issue orders relating to
discipline. All men wishing to visit the city
or to leave the immediate vicinity of the
camp will be required to have written
passes, signed and countersigned by COM
pany, battalion and regimental command
ers. Passes will be issued literally to all
who conduct themselves properly. No wom-
partment, will be permitted in the limits of
the camp after the sounding of the retreat,
at 4:3O O'Clock in the afternoon. The provost
guard will be held responsible for the en-
forcement of this order. There will also be
q regular order of exercises for the men.
This will include setting up exercises from
y 10 9:3O o clock in the morning. and a pa
rade at o'clock in the afternoon. From
until O'Clock at night there will be an
open rehearsal of the band. There will be
plenty of guards at all times. Last night
they were stationed inside the barns on ac-
count of the cold. However, the state has
agreed to loan enough overcoats to supply
the guard, and, In the future, the members
OF 1t must bear the cold as best they can.
The time for the muster out is still some
what uncertain. colonel Barnett stated that
ne thought about two weeks would be re-
quired to finish up the work of the. regi-
ment. Colonel May insists that no time be
wasted He said last night that he intends
TO set Nov. Il as the day for discharge and
II nothing interferes he will to-day put
three surgeons to the work of examining
the men, They are DR.. Hanna of Green
castle, and Drs. Moore and Schaefer, of
this city. A week for the examinations and
a day or two more for the papers, Colonel
May thinks, will be enough. He will set the
oft1cerS to work at the clothing accounts of
the men, first of all. Some of the muster
out rolls have already been made out, and
there is no cause for delay which can now
be foreseen in the completion of these.
Charles McCory, of Company Q, who is
the only member of his company not with
the command. was at his home in New AL
pany yesterday to attend the funeral of
Miss Leona Pierce, whom he accidentally
shot Nov. 5. Miss Pierce died Monday
morning. McCory accompanied his COM
rades as far as Louisville, but there decided
10 return TO New Albany One of McCorys
friends in Company c said, last night, that
Miss Pierce had been a friend of McCory,
and as he was passing her home, Nov. 3, in
a carriage, she ran out TO speak to him.
Inc young man playfully lifted his gum and
the girl called out Don't shoot me-" Nc
Cory, thinking the gun was unloaded
pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded and
Miss Pierce fell She was still smiling, and
the party drove off, thinking that her
words, II am shot," were playful. The bull
let had passed into her side and she was
slowly dying for four days. McCory's COM
rades. say that the tragedy changed him
completely. He seemed almost unconscious
of his own acts. At first he was arrested
and released on 500 bond. but the mother
or the unfortunate girl withdrew all charges
and the young man is entirely free. He is
only nineteen years old. 1t is said that his
habits and conduct are above reproach. He
and Miss Pierce were members of the same
church In Silver Grove, suburb of New