Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-25

the regiment mustered out and not
sent to Havana with General Fitz-
hugh Lee as part CT the army of &C.
cupation. The petitioners state shat
the regiment is not in proper cond.-
ton to Withstand the diseases Incl
/ dent to the climate of Cuba, that a
! needless sacrifice Of health and life
would be caused by it's being sent to
| the island, that more than a sufficient
number Of troops accustomed to a
hot climate can be taken from the
| extreme southern states and that
many of the Wiscon in volunteers are
| business men and heads of families
| Who are DESTROYS of returning homa
at the earliest possible moment. 1t
Is hoped that prompt action on the
part Of the governor will induce the
president to change his contemplated
muStering-Out order so as to include
! the Wisconsin regiment. Racine and
other home cities of companies i'll
the regiment are preparing to send
/ similar petitions to the governor. The
latter says he will probably act in &C
cordance with the desires Of his petit
TONERS.
: The fol. owing letters were received
by Col. S. P. Schadel, commanding
the first Wisconsin volunteers at
camp Cuba Libre, who was the only
commanding officer of a regiment
! there who held out against gr at pres
sure Of officers and men to allow
beer and wine to be sold at the reg
mental canteen:
Dear SiT:-The Woman's Christian
J.. Temperance union at its last regular
meeting, voted to extend to you d
most sincere~vote of thanks for not
allowing a 'canteen' to be established
under your command. 1t is very
gratifying to us to know of a temper
ance man among the officers at camp
Cuba Libre. Yours in loving loyalty
to the grand white ribbon,
Mrs. H. V. Stephens,
Cor. Sec'y FIR the w. C. T. u
Dear Colonel:-I congratulate you
assumed in regard to the selling of
| beer and other intoXicants in the
regiment of u. S. volunteers under
you command. You certainly are de-
! serving of the plaudits Of this whole
nation in the position you have taken
for the protection of your men from
foe far more ruinOus to body and
| soul than the enemy's bullets. May
! God bless and reward you for the
courage displayed, in which you op-
posed the consensus of military opin-
ion, in reference to selling beer in
the army canteen, is the earnest de-
sire of all interested. Yours respect
fully, Anna E. Rainey,
''Supt. Soldiers and Sailors,
FLORIDA w. c. T. T."
Badgers Badly Treated.
Boston, Aug. 2O.-Brig. Gen. Will
liam J. Bancroft Of the staff of Gen.
F'itzhugh Lee, in command of the
seventh corps, has arrived home, hav-
ing resigned on the signing Of the
peace protocol that he might attend
to business engagements. Gen. Ban
croft sharply criticised the manage
nient Of the army, pointed out the
mortality in the 1st Wisconsin regi-
menu at Jacksonville as proof of his
charge, and told how the troops had
been inadequately provided for as re-
CARDS equipment and care, and en-
phatically declared that the army
must be reorganized to be Of further
utility. Speaking of affairs with the
seventh army corps at Jacksonville,
he said:
"The conditions attendant upon the
arrangements to guard against sick