The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-10
Representative Overstreet Secures
Revenue Cutter for Committee to Go
Down Bay and Meet the COncho.
THE 18TH NOW FURLOUGHED
GOVERNOR MOUNT REVIEWED AND
ADDRESSED THE REGIMENT.
Companies Will Leave for Northeru
Part of State This Morning
Battery A Reception. :

There was evidently hitch in the dee
parture Of the ne-hundred-and-ifty4
eighth Indiana Volunteers for this city from
Knoxville yesterday, Colonel Smith expects
ing to have his command in this city this
morning. The regiment was paid off Fri@
day, and this ceremony may have had some-
thing to do with the delay. Last night
telegram received from Colonel Smith said
the regiment will arrive Monday morning.
In response to a message sent by Governs
or Mount asking the needs of the regiment
in the matter of tents Colonel Smith wired
yesterday:
Il will bring ample tentage and hospital
arrangements. will wire you twelve hours
in advance of our departure
The ladies' auxiliary to the regiment has
postponed it's meeting till more definite in-
formation as to the hour of the regiments
arrival is ascertained.
Lieutenant Waterman was quite anxious
to know when Colonel Smith and the One>
hundred-and-f -ffty-eighth would arrive homa
and was in constant communication with
the Governors Office yesterday. He expects
to furnish the regiment with fresh meat and
bread and such other subsistence as may be
required. All things are in readiness in the
hospital for the care of the sick, be they
few or many.
The transport Concho with the Twenty-
seventh Indiana Battery, is expected in
New York Sept. a. 1t left Ponce with five
officers and 164 men, The full quota Is l72
men. Whether the battery was up to its
maximum is not known at the War Depart-
ment. 1T is recalled here that not all Of the
battery boys left for Porto Rico. "Reggy''
Oliver was home on a sick leave and is still
here. Elijah B. Martindale was transferred
nd tn Va
ton. George S. Hays and a private by the
name of Park, living, Mrs Irene ". Webb
thinks, at Charlottesville or Mooresville.
were home from Chickamauga on sick
leave. So far as is known no recruits wers
ever obtained to take the place Of these
men. Counting the five thus accounted for
would more than make UP the maximum
quota and would indicate that not man
was left behind
Representative Overstreet has received
authority for himself and friends to use the
revenue cutter General Meigs to sail down
the bay and meet the Concho on arrival.
Mr. Overstreet will take under his wing the
Indianapolis committee, consisting Of
Mesdames o. II. Palmer, /. ". Webb and
John w. Kern. Mrs. Overstreet will also
assist the ladies. Arrangements will be
made for the immediate transfer Of MEM
bers of the battery from the transport to a
special train, which will be in waiting at
Jersey City, and they will be hurried
through to Indianapolis as fast as steam
can take them. There will be no wearisome
waiting for the Twenty-seventh Battery.
Mrs. Irene V. Webb and Mrs. o. H.
Palmer will leave for New York over the
Big Four and New York Central Sunday
evening The ladies will meet Representa-
tive Overstreet and get to the battery at
the first possible moment. Last night Mrs.
Webb said she did not anticipate that the
battery would be held in detention, as most
other organizations have been. 1t is the
intention to bring every member Of the or
ganization home, and there will be a hos
pital car attached to the train for those
who are i'll. Many parents have informed
Mrs. Webb and Mrs Palmer that they want
their boys brought home. no matter how
sick they may be. and none will be left be-
hind unless too i'll to travel without imperil-
ing their lives. From letters received from
Porto Rico it is apparent the boys are all
in reasonably good health.