Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-09-14
FIRST REGIMENT HOME.
The Volunteers Who Camped al
jacksonville Return.
N LONG OVATION
A Wild and Noisy Time at Milwaukee
Railway Station When h
Train Came.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 10.-[Special.]
Thousands Of Milwaukeeans sacrificed
a nights sleep to give the First Wiscon-
sin regiment, returning from Jackson
Vile, a royal welcome. The first section
of the train did not arrive until about 2
O'Clock and the hast was more than an
hour later, but the hOur did not discOur-
age the people. They remained and gave
the boys a reception that they will not
soon forget.
Half the bands IN the city were sta
toned in the train shed and the first sound
that reached the ears of the returning
soldiers was the strains of When John
they heard d great shout from the crowd
around the park which had caught a
glimpse of the train passing into the great
shed. The officers and such Of the men
as could get out Of the cars were soon
on the platform, shaking hands with their
friends and receiving the congratulations
of their friends. Those who had man
aged to get inside of the gates ran up to
the car Windows to bid the boys welcome
and there was no more sleep for anybody.
Elaborate arrangements had been made
for the care Of the sick, but when the
trains were all in it was found that the
sick did not need any better care than
they were getting on the trains. Every
hospital in the city had been asked to be
| prepared to receive some Of the sick, and
ambulances had been secured, but there
were only about half & dozen men who
needed to be moved, and they were taken
to the Emergency hospital, just across
the park from the depot. The others re-
manned on the trains and were sent to
their homes this morning.
The hospital section consisted of nine
cars, and it carried those who were in the
$1,000 a1,l.+;nn Lo1h cnn+;op hn6 wy
sick in addition to those on the hospital
section, but for the most part they were
men who were either recovering from
sickness or were not seriously i'll. The
whole number Of sick on the trains was
about go, but comparatively few of them
were sick enough to need a great deal of
care. There were not many who could
not have walked if there had been occa-
sion for walking.
The change in the atmosphere as the
train pulled north had a beneficial effect,
increased no doubt by the knowledge that
| they were nearing home, and not a few of
the patients showed a marked improve
ment before the journey ended. AdJt.-
Gen. Boardman, who went to Louisville
to meet the First. remained there until
the last section was ready to leave and
he came back on the hospital train. He
was greatly pleased with the way the
sick had been cared for and he praised
the surgeons highly. He said that he had
found the sick so per cent. better than
he had expected to find them.
At the Emergency Hospital.
The following sick men, al but three
of whom have typhoid fever, are at the
Emergency hospital:
CECIL COOMs. Co. E. Beloit.
c. J. MORRIS, Co. e. BelOit.
ALBERT RASE1, Co. l, Milwaukee.
GEORGE L. ARMSTRONG. &C. f. Beloit.
CORP. \. J. BAUM, Co. !, milwaukee,.
5TH}HA zA RHEEYs e. c. I. N TiPHasiee.
CHiIsTIAN WOLF. Co. G, Whitewater,
1S4AG LHHHI2' Co. 20 +. NJ lRaFlEinst0n-
JOHN DEDERICK. Go. c, Whitewater.
GEORGE YICKERS. 60: D, Darlington.
ERNEST HEIDENREITER, Co. L, Mil
waukce.
BERT HOLIDAY. Co. E. BeIoit.
EtHAN0M K0YEk, Go. E, Fl. Atkinson.
HENRY GILBERTSON, Co. D, Darling
ton.
c.. j. Morris of Co. E, Beloit, was the
worst case. He was very low when re-
moved from the train to the hospital, and
the doctors doubted whether he would
survive the day.
Began at Logausport.
The reception for the boys of the First
practically began at L~Ogansport, Ind,
where on 4 small scale they were given
an entertainment equal to that prepared
for them by the Milwaukee people. The
citizens of the Indiana city did not know
they were coming, or at least that they
would stay for any length of time, and
what they did they did on the spur of the
moment The mayor of the city told Col.
Schadel that if the boys were to be there
long enough the people would serve coffee
to them. Then he departed to interest
the ladies and they at once took matters
into their own hands and arranged an
entertainment to suit their own notions
of hospitality.
This morning as the several sections
came in the soldiers were marched to the
dining hall, where they found a hot meal
ready for them, a large number of the
ladies having stayed up all night to be
surely ready to serve the soldiers on their
arrival. The soldiers were fed at lao, at
3 and at 4:30 o'clock this morning, the
tables being prepared after one body of
men had left for the reception of the next
section: At Z O'Clock the guards from
the train We're fed. Altogether it is esti-
mated that 5000 meals were served in
the big hall. Milk, sandwiches and hot
coffee were sent over to the sick soldier
boys on the cars and at 5 O'Clock
Mrs. Crosby brought two ten-gallon
cans of chicken broth and Cruel to the
sick men. Mrs. Crosby deserves a great
deal of credit for her efforts to make the
sick as comfortable as possible. The ho-
tel men guessed just about right as to
the amount of food needed, for there was
not much left after the last man was
fed. The Little Sisters Of the Poor were
given everything in the line of provisions
that was not used.
The Muster Out.
Capt. Buck, U. S. A, will proceed at
once to muster the companies out of the
service. To do this he will visit each
town or city where one or more COM
panies are located and will muster the
boys out by companies, without their
being compelled to rendezvous at any CEN
trail point.
The tentage and ammunition of the
two regiments were forwarded today to
Camp Douglas, where Capt. Buck will
check it up and make his reports. All
this work will require several weeks
time.
Pushing Electric Line.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, Sept. 1OlTSpe-
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