The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24


| are supplanting the little dog tents with
the large ones issued by the government.
| This regiment is one of the very few on
the grounds that has been sleeping under
such small tents. which are pigmies COM
| pared to the tents of the Third Pennsyl-
vania across the road. As has been stated,
| the Indiana tents are so constructed that
| each man can carry half of one on his
| knapsack and while marching through a
| rough or unknown country they answer ad-
| mirably the purposes for which they were
| intended. During the hot weather the Hoos-
| iers have found them hot and trife un-
comfortable. The boys see in the Pennsyl-
| vania regiment across the road what COM
| forts a State which makes a large militia
| appropriation provides for it's defenders
| Considerable visiting between these two
regiments is carried on and Surgeon Mar
| tin, of chat command, and Surgeon Charl-
| ton have become good friends Surgeon
| Martin is the author of standard medical
| text books and quit one of the prominent
| chairs of the University of Pennsylvania to
| take the field. He recently married Miss
| Drexel, daughter of the multi-mllionaire
| family of that name, in Philadelphia An
| other visitor yesterday to the Indiana camp
| was Lieutenant Bowland Sherman, of the
| Eighth Massachusetts. who only a few
weeks ago was married to Miss Alma
Haerle, an indianapolis society belle
| The Indianapolis party that spent Sunday
IN camp was royalty entertained and Col.
| Thayer. during the afternoon, took it over
| to the Eighth Massachusetts to pay re-
| spects. The visitors left for home tonight.
very happy over their warm reception here
and very enthusiastic over the appearance
| and conduct of the soldiers from their ma
| tive State. H. c. Adams, who served with
| much credit in the civil war, found a good
| deal to engross his attention and revive old
| memories, and with his illimitable fund of
anecdote and humor he amused his friends
| in the new army by his recital of events
/ OF thirty-five years ago. "The boys of '9S
at Chickamauga," said Mr.. Adams ARE as
| keenly alive to the fair fame of their State
| and the honor of their country as were the
Indiana boys of 81, and l am surprised at
the excellent order and soldier-like ways
into which these young lads from Indiana
have so soon fallen Some of these chaps
whom / have known about indianapolis as
! light-hearted fellows without experience in
roughing it are keeping up their end of the
| string like veterans. We have reason to
| feel proud of them all-officers as we'll as
men. Such young men as Captain Tarlton
and others are making admirable officers
The party messed with the regimentaI Of
ficers, and al supper time such epicureans
| as William H. Schmidt, John B. Cockrum
| and r. o. Hawkins sat down to spread of
| very fat bacon, rice. dried apples, fried po-
| tatoes and coffee, and voted it a capital
spread. Darkness had come when the party
| left camp, and through the woods was the
fickering candle lights. From far over the
ridges came the faint sweet tones of the
| bugles. The e-hundred- and fifty-eighth
Regiments band played the "Star-spangled
Banner the carriages drove away into
the inkiness of the night.
The prompt action of three Indiana hos
pital stewards at the serious wreck near
| Rossville, last week. has been discussed
among the boys. These stewards were
Harrod Newand, of the One-hundred-and-
hfty-eighth Indiana, and Frank Sommers
and John Pfaff, of the -hundred-and-
sixtieth, who, with Clarence Fate, private
in the observation-disclosures -fifty-eighth, rem
| dered very prompt aid to the injured. -Four
or five men were in one of the cars, badly
| hurt, and group of soldiers were standing
about doing nothing. They seemed to have
lost their heads under the trying circum-
stances. The Indiana men happened to be
driving by in a carriage, and, after stop
and promptly carried the injured to an am
| bulance and gave them temporary relief.
The commissary in the -hundred-and-
| fifty-eighth is a bit shy on rations and the
issue is from sixty to sixty-five pounds of
| hard tack to the company, instead of eighty
pounds. The shortage was probably due to
mistake in invoice. Other supplies ex-
cept coffee. are trife short. though not to
kf.of.
|
The appearance of the measles in so many
| regiments may make the doctors consid
cradle work. However, they do not antici-
| pate an epidemic of considerable size. The
| case of Private Lane, of Kokomo, is iso-
| lated in a special tent put up for it. He
| probably contracted the ailment from eX-
| posure while visiting the Third Pennsylva-
| MIA boys.
The new spring discovered by Colonel
Smiths men is used for the horses largely.
and gives relief to. conditions in camp.
A little incident illustrating the clean-cut
patriotism of large portion Of the young
men who have rushed to the defense of their
| country's honor and in behalf OF the cause
of humanity was illustrated in the case of
Private Strobet of an Ohio regiment, who
was assigned as orderly at brigade head
quarters OF Col. Harry Is. Smith, the senior
in command, yesterday. He is a finely edu-
Gated man, and of prominence. He held
commission as captain in the Ohio National
| Guard until short time ago, when he
| compelled to resign on account of the press
| of business. When the call came for volun-
teers he did not try to organize new COM
pany in order to get commission, but
| promptly enlisted a private in one of the
| companies ordered to the front
The brigade command is still with Colonel
Smith, and will probably remain there till
| the brgadier general is assigned. The West
| Virginia colonel whose protest went up the
| line has not heard the result of it yet at
least the secretary of war has not wired
| Major General Brooke to put him in COM
| mand. A little scene at General Arnold's
| headquarters when this dispute as to senior
| ity came up is described at second hand
| for the officers involved are very chary in
| discussing the matter with the newspaper
| correspondents. General Arnold summoned
| the adjutants of the two regiments before
| him to make statements on oath as to the
| date of the commissions of their respective
| colones and of their mastering in. 1t seems
| that the West Virginia adjutant confused
| his dates on different occasions to the extent
of receiving a sharp reprimand from Gen.
Arnold, who held that Colonel Smith was
the senior. The West Virginian apparently