The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
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at Camp Mount, signed the diplomas of the
Bluffton High School graduating class. The
cities of Lafayette and Marion are patriotic
enough to pay the salaries Of these educa-
tional officers while they are at the front
serving their country
Colonel Gunder's regimental officers have
| been much opposed to establishing a can
| teen in that regiment, and an expression
| given by Colonel Kiger yesterday was one
which Major Rich, of the One hundred and
| fifty-eighth Indiana also voiced. Just be-
! fore we left home,' said Colonel Kiger,
| twenty-five or thirty mothers came to both
| Adjutant Marks and myself and begged that
we look after their boys, who, they were
| afraid mighe succumb to the temptation
! so strong in army life. Now, while / do not
object to a man drinking in moderation, yet
| understand so fully the danger OF young
men, and / would much rather prefer to
| have temptation kept from them. Our young
| men from Indiana are different from those
who belong to regiments recruited in the
| large cities where the drinking of liquor
| is regarded as very matter of fact thing.
| / am afraid the danger to our boys would
| be even greater than to these men from the
| large cities. / should hate very much to go
back to my home and admit to these parents
| lndL we naQ p6IIullltA tileIT SUIlS u 0Illlh
| liquor freely during their army life
! Chaplain Weaver has a project on foot
to erect a large social tent to contain two
hundred men. He expects this tent to be
used as a gathering place for the boys
when they have a leisure bit of time,
place where they may write letters comfort
| ably and where services may be held. 1t
| will cost $50 to erect and equip this tent,
| and the twelve towns represented in the
regiment have been asked to make up the
amount. The correspondence with home
| folks in this regiment is indicated by the
| chaplains stamp SALE Yesterday morning
he sold 700 of these little bits of paper that
carry the loving MESSAGES up North.
Company M of the One-hundred- -and-ffty-
| eighth Indiana Is the banner company for
writing home This company halls from the
Athens of Indiana, where letter writing is
a fine art practiced by all the inhabitants
thereof. 1t is said by one Of the officers of
the company that nearly every Crawfords-
| Vile boy has FIVE or six girls to whom he
confides his tribulations on the battlefield.
| The high school commencement and senior
| hop at the western Athens, social event
| of no less Importance to Charlottesville
! than the Patriarchs' ball is to New York,
| is scheduled for next month, and yester-
! day a batch of invitations were received
| by all the Charlottesville boys here. 1t was
| the seddest thing that has happened yet
| in camp-the reception of these invitations,
| which brought to the lonely soldier visions
| of the soul-strring essays on The Mill
| VIII Never Run with the Water that is
| Passed." and far more fair, the dreams of
sweet, fresh loveliness in white muslin and
| crepe de chine If General Blanco would
| only do something to precipitate a decisive
| battle before the Charlottesville commence
ment These Montgomery county lads are
a manly set of youngsters with able Off
| GERS Paul z. Cox, with the company, be-
! longs to the graduating class of the high
| school. This company is the only one In
the regiment fully equipped with rubber
| blankets, which the men themselves bought,
and their wisdom was vindicated when yes
terday's rain came and the dog tents did
| not furnish quite enopgh shelter from the
| water 1t is difficult to properly ditch these
| tiny tents. The company boasts that it is
| the only one which went through the vac
cination ordeal without having man faint.
| The boys of the regiment are telling with
much glee how the guard held up Adjutant
Powell the other night and found him with
out the countersign, dragging him around
! the camp till he secured some one to Vouch
for him.
A big snake was treed in front of Major
Rich's headquarters yesterday and gang
! started to smoke it out, but Major Rich
stopped the sport rather than take chances
| on injuring the trees, all Of which i'll the
| park are sacred objects,
| Private Barrow of Company A, was on
guard yesterday at the spring between his
| - Vnrx
| crowd of New Yorkers swooped down on
the young man and tried to confiscate all
| the water in sight. The guard held them at
bay, and in doing so was startled to hear
spoken a language which he could but
scarcely understand. 1t was the genuine
Bowery dialect, in which many of the men
of this New York regiment. which was re-
cruited in the lower part Of the big metropo-
| lis are past masters.
Bertrand Smith, the quartermaster of
| Company A. and until the war an employe
| in the Indianapolis postoffice has been
sending home live rabbits and lizards to his
| friends in the service. He has quick eye
for relics On the way here, while stopping
at one of the historic points, his glance fell
upon a very precious trophy. 1t was can
non ball in size and undoubtedly one of
those left on the battlefield during the days
| of 81 and '65. He was about to lug it off
to send it home, when railroad section
hand came up and made him drop the can
non BALL It was ball used on a railroad
water tank, and had accidentally been
dropped to the side Of the track.
1t was stated a few days ago that Colonel
C4under was in command of the brigade to
which he was assigned. This was the un-
| hTt xUha dot Of
missions were looked up it was ascertained
| that Michigan colonel outranked him by
seven days. In day or two the Marion
| colonel will have more water for his men,
as two new wells are being driven in the
camp and are expected to show water by
excellent and not hospital case was re-
ported last night. Squad, company and bat
TALON drill make up the days programme
Major Harter. of Warsaw, has his tent
within a few hundred feet Of where his
father fought in the opening of the battle
OF Chickamauga.
A pathetic case comes to mind from
the e-hundred-and-fifty- Regi-
ment There, in Company L, is a lad only
nineteen years old, dying, From the expos
ure. and probably from a careless diet he
| became very weak, and typhoid pneumonia
| developed. He realized that his condition
was very low, and yesterday said to the
| doctor: Doctor, l wish could get letters
| from home like the other boys" His father