Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-11-30
CAMP ONWARD.
How Our Soldier Boys Are Farins
at Savannah-Thanksgiving
Sham Bat le, sc.
Correspondence Richmond Palladium.

iJdeksOnyIIf6 mere We rave Deeu hepi
very busy drilling and working to get
ourselves on regular army footing
| All the division and brigade officers
over US are regular army men and
there is a great deal more system IN
cur work than heretofore.
/ All the boys are DOW well except
Sergeant w Fl. Drapier, who is cen
valescent Private William Snyder has
| the N asles, but as the weather Is
| quite cool they will likely soon be over.
| Ice half inch thick was found In the
| water this morning, and the boys high
regard for the sunny south has gone
where the woodbine twineth.
| Two events of importance have oc-
Cured within a week. First. Thanks
giving dinner. The officers of
the regiment arranged for a
turkey dinner, and the turkeys came
all the way from Chicago to attend the
feast.
Company F had nine turkeys, six
gallons of oysters with celery, butter
crackers, etc, and the dinner was
clear out of sight-twenty minutes af-
ter it was laid o the table-Sergeant
Weisgerbe-, ,ou cam ra tiend succeeded
in getting some snap shots of the boy 8
at the most interesting time of the oc-
casion and ara sure they will be a
revelation to some of the people at
home who imagine we are starving
down here. To make matters worse,
after arrangements had been made
for the dinner and the provisions or
dered by telegraph, word came that
the ladies of Savannah had arranged to
serve dinner that day. Our colonel,
after considering the matter, decided
that those of the regiments that
had made no arrangements could use
our share and declined the kind offer
of the ladies'. We regretted very much
that they did not come, as to sit at a
table with a real table cloth and nap
kins would have in itself been an event
to be RENE N bered. However, we had
all we could eat and then some.
On last Friday occurred the long
looked for sham battle between the 1st
aud 2nd brigades of the 2ud division.
Our force, the lst brigade, consisting
OF the 16lst Indiana, lst North Caro-
lima and 21d Illinois, against the h
Virginia, 49th Iowa and 10Th Illinois.
We had the old rebel breastworks and
they were to try TO take them. Our
regiment is the youngest IN the brig
ade the others being militia men of the
first call. They made feint upon the
right, where the I'd Illinois was sta
toned and then threw their whole
force against our front. Four com
panies under Lieut.. Col. Backus were
on the hrSsStworks aud he signaled
for W. W ia 1ffendsa Major Nc
Grew seassu& fSiapasu-afen to his aid. |
We went on the run and arrived at
the firing line "a the enemy were |
within one hundred yards OF the |
b b.eastworks, and the three combined
volleys that met them threw them into
After one more vain at
tack they withdrew aud the victory
was awarded 10 US with very nice COM
pliments to cur IT giment. Company
+ was in the center of the fight, md
the men fred about d thousand shots
in fifteen minutes.
We now have overcoats, and the
bows are bows in blue sure enough.
Our new Krag- -Jorgensen rifles are
tere and will be distributed today.
One hundred of them are now piled up
on Captain Smiths trout porch, and il
looks like an overworked freight
depot.
CAPTAIN Ford, father of Musician
Will Ford, has been here for week.
and brought lots of goodies TO the
boys. The captain fought on the same
ground in '64 that we had our sham
battle on the other day. He rides a
horse like the veAran he is.
The word way circulated Thurs
day that Charles G.. Swain of
Richmond was coming down and the
bows were on the qui vive, but so far
were disappointed. Hope he will come
though.
Private Joe Cook is now Msj1r Har
rison's telegraph operator a. provost
headquarters. He is good one too.
Picture taking is now the fad and
the beautiful scenery around here is
sufficient excuse. Captain Smith and
Lieutenant kimmel were out Thurs
day on tandem getting snap bots
galore.
The officers took dinner with the
men Thanksgiving day and when the
camera OF Sergeant Weisgerber was
turned on the table Lieutenant Com
stock disappeared so he could prove he
had no appetite. il is supposed.
Private Pat Bode IS splendid
cook and the way the nine big turkeys
disappeared is recommendation he
may be proud ,f.
Lieutenant Elmer E. kimmel
went down TO the market
Saturday evening and bought big
fat possum of "eolored citizen. :
When he proudly displayed It 10 Cook
Bode he promptly pronounced it a
.'pole cat and strange to say every
ene on the place agreed with him even
| TO the captain. Now the lieutenant
don't know whether to eat II Or not but
the chances are that the boys will
change their mind before mess call
| Sergeant WeisgeI ber is acting lst
sergeant until Sergeant Martin OF
| DIapier returns. He is sill right, too
Captain Smith has smile all over
his face today which no one esn se-
count for unless it Is suspicious
looking express package that came to
him Yesterday. However, time vii
tell.
Saturday afternoon there was base
ball game between the 16lst Indians
and the 49th lows teams Roy Ed
wards. sergeant company F. played
Is. base snd really won the game. He
made home run, the only one in tbs
game. and brought IN four runs, after
wards making three base hit that
brought in two. The score was Ii Il
: ~ favor as Irdisns