The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-27
THE SOLDIERS RETURN
MEN WILL BE Met WITH BANDS OF
MUSIC AND FLYING BANNERS.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Regiment Expected Next Week.
kilograms to the Governor.


ninth Indiana Regiment, at Thoroughfare
Gap, Va, seem TO have little faith in their
colonel. John T. Barnett, of Piqua. o. They
evidently suspected he had telegraphed to
Governor Mount. as he had, that few of
the members of the regiment wanted to re-
turn home, and yesterday kilograms were
received by the Governor from every COM
pany in the regiment saying that nearly
every one of the boys wanted to be mus
tered out of the service and that all in
formation to the contrary is false. The tele-
grams received are as follows:
Ninety per cent. of Company G. wish
to be mustered out of the service as soon
as possible. Any information to the con-
.sERGT. CHARLES F. ELLIS"
"Ninety-fiye per cent ,, Of Company nTa y >, D
over two-thirds of our company greatly
desire to be mustered out at the earliest
COMMITTEE COMPANY FL
Ninety per cent. of Company ! wish to
be mustered out. MEMBERS"
Eighty per cent. of Company K wish to
be mustered out of service as soon as pos
sible Any representation to the contrary
is incorrect c. F. STEVENS
sire to be mustered out of the service as
quickly as possible, and request that you
MEMBERS OF COMPANY Al
Ninety per cent. of Company M hereby
ask to come home. Can you 1, help Pr, US? ~ ;.
Understand you desire to know wishes
of Indiana volunteers in regard to gar
rison duty. Ninety-five per cent of Com
pany Ia desire to be mustered out as soon
as possible. Men tried to express wishes by
petition. Petition was suppressed and pro
motors put in guardhouse under arrest. As
lover of justice give us fair play;
WINFIELD ROBINSON,
First Sergeant Company l."
of Indiana volunteers. Ninety per cent. of
Company desire to be mustered out as
soon as possible Tare II you see fit to help u.s.
PRIVATE HERBERT GRAHAM"
"As lovers of justice and fair play, we,
press our earnest desire to be mustered out
Of Of the service Fully 80 per cent of the en-
ment to the contrary Is wrong.
NEWTON A. JEFFRIES,
...u. First Sergeant Company H"
rison duty is incorrect. Eighty-five per cent.
of the men in Company E prefer discharge.
Please use your influence in our behalf; ;,
COMMITTEE COMPANY E."
The right of American citizens being re-
fused us in the matter of expressing our
desire in petition, we would inform you that
IS per cent of Company d desire to return
home. COMPANY D."
Governor Mount said last night there
seemed to be a great discrepancy between
the telegram from Colonel Barnett and
those from the companies of the regiment.
He said the One-hundred- and-ffty-ninth
would be mustered out.
The e-hundred-and-fifty- and the
acknowledgements Regiments
will be the only Indiana regiments mustered
out at this time. Lieutenant Waterman,
United States mastering officer, yesterday
received a telegram announcing that the
One-hundred- -ffty-seventh Regiment
will leave Fernandina, Fla, Monday and
will reach this city Wednesday afternoon.
1t has been suggested that the decorations
on the business houses of the city be al
lowed to remain until the regiment arrives.
1t is to be remembered that this regiment
has suffered more from sickness than any of
the other Indiana regiments and that it has
been away from home longest. 1t is ex-
pected that when the regiment arrives it
will be met with bands of music and that
the people of Indianapolis and the friends
and relations of the boys who will come to
the city will give the regiment royal well
come. The occasion is expected to be doubly
as stirring as the great day the volunteers
left for the South.
1t is said that an investigation is to be had
of the report that five members of the
Goshen company were sent home unattended
while they suffered from fever. On the trip
Charles Perry died. Colonel KEENAN,, of the
Fifth Ohio Volunteers, is quoted as saying
the following to the Washington corre-
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une: 1.-The night 1 came away from Fer
nandina six fever-stricken men Of the One
hundred-and- ffty-seventh Indiana were
loaded on a sleeper to go home. They were
in charge of three well men, who knew
nothing about nursing or treating them.
One man died in the night, and another
must have died next day.
1T was simply murder to send those men
away in that condition. noble Georgia
lady on the train, Mrs. w. w. Gordon, of
Savannah, wife of General Gordon, of the
Seventh Army Corps, was touched by the
pitiable condition of the men and worked
with them all night. She had the remains
put off at Savannah, where an undertaken
met it, and she also took the brother of the
deceased to her own home in Savannah.
She bathed and handled those sick men
without any thought of herself, saying she
had been through five epidemics."
A report is denied that the two colored
companies encamped at the fair grounds
wish to be mustered out. canvass among
the soldiers shows that they are anxious to
remain in the service and they want to be
n (tuba.