The Princeton union., 1898-05-19
TIE BOYS D ARE OFF
The minnesota Volunteers Left Camp
Ramsey Last Monday AT
ternoon.
TIE Twelfth and Fourteenth VIII Go
TO CI'ickas1sauga and the TElir=
ssentEl Goes West.

tsentfl Goes West.
0 On THE THE TRAIN, May 16, 1S9S.-After
four days OF anxious waiting, the Four
4 teenth hnds itself at last on the move.
| Company M is in the first section of
the rl'eglmental train nicely quartered
N Pullman sleepers-slightly different
from the way Minnesota troops left in
1861 Ihe start was made at $3.50 this
afternoon and the first part of our
journey will be over the Wisconsin
Central.
| The week has been an eventful one.
Besides the usual routine there has
|been the work preparatory to breaking
camp to break the monotony. There
has also been some other excitement in
whlchsthe Thirteenth and Fourteenth
participated which was not down on
the program but which was none the
less enjoyable. For several days
[ ''sightless swine" had been quartered
in tent at the end of the car line and
had done prosperous business The
crowd which patronized the place had
made themselves obnoxious to ladies
and the complaints were numerous.
| Finally the boys decided to take the
law in their own hands and rid the
grounds of the eyesore and Thursday
night they made raid. All who
couldf8got inside and at a signal the
ropesgWere cut and despite the protests
of the proprietor everything drinkable
was taken.
The guards had busy time for the
next half hour trying to detect the
perpetrators and IS or 20 were lodged
in the guard house. None of Company
NJ We're captured and the boys deny be-
ing implicated, but the police detail
were busy for some time the next morn
ing burying dead soldiers.'
The next day the tent went up again
and the boys planned on another raid
when night came. The forces were
massed promptly on time but the Off
Ger of the day had received some inti-
NATION of what was to occur and gave
the guard instructions to prevent it.
The boys we're held up on the guard
line and while a few sentinels kept the
boys back the remainder of the guard
surrounded the tent and took every
thing movable to the guard house.
The NJ boys have had their first ex-
perience On the picket line. Saturday
detail of three men was called for
and although they had no uniforms
they made such a creditable appear
ance that one of their number-Bailey,
of Blue Hill was chosen as an orderly.
Sunday another N man was chosen Or
derby for Major Scheffer, the lucky
man this time being Bergen, of Evans
vile. Today Earl Galley was corporal
of the first relief and although a be-
ginner, he performed his duties like a
veteran.
Although the orders to move came
Friday, few officers in the regiment
expected that Monday would see US on
our way. Sunday company comman-
ders we're ordered to have their men
ready and by $50 this morning the
sound of hammers could be heard
everywhere as the quartermasters be-
gan the work of boxing the supplies.
At 10 o'clock the cars began to be
switched into our yards but it was not
until after dinner that the supplies
we're taken aboard. Our regiment
moves in three sections with twenty
minutes between trains. We are run
ming through Wisconsin now at the
rate Of 60 miles an hour and expect to
be in Chicago by o'clock tomorrow
morning. Company B, OF Anoka, is in
the second section, so we have friends
close behind. Travelling rations have
been issued consisting of compressed
beef, baked beans, hard bread and two
days rations of soft bread, which with
coffee will give us quite an acceptable
bill of fare. The hard bread as it is
called is not the hardtack of other
days, filled with magots, ETC., but is a
biscuit little larger than an oyster
cracker, very palatable when fresh.
The vermin may appear later but per-
haps by that time the boys will be
hardened enough to relish even that.
We are carrying our supplies on our
own cars of which we have two and are
not worrying.
NOTES.
Both our lieutenants have acted as
officers OF the brigade guard.
L Our train nassed Through the taMn