The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-05-20
Moving to the Front.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, May II. '9s.

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The first regiment of Michigan troops. tb
ols' Michigan volunteers, is now At tb
great rendezvous, within few miles ,
ohickamauga Park. where the thirty req
nents ordered here will make their cam
Tor few days, or weeks. as the case =.
be. ~
Inc regiment was kept busy all dav Snn
aSy al Island Lake getting everything II
shape 10 be moved and expecting orders I,
move about eight o'clock in the evep;,o
Even late in the afternoon however thar
were many who believed that the regimen,
would not leave for days at least. Thew are
railing back on different opinions now
opinions which no one remembers hearing
them express, but it does not disconcert the
i'oid-you-sos, to be told of it. After snn-
per as 1t began to grow dark the bows of the
olst put on their overcoats. kept their can.
'eens' haversacks. and blankets within
reach and waited. Some spread themselves
OUT on the straw mattresses and went IN
sleep where their tents once stood. Than
nre was built in one of the company streets
"hlch thus gained cheerful appearance in
spite or the showers which began To patter
down on the blue overcoats. At Last short
~ before midnight the men of tho ,.s,
battalion of the regiment, which had begun
10 muster In on the Sunday before. An.
swered 10 roll call and started for the station
where they were more than delighted to |
iind confirmed the report that it was not |
even tourist cars but real Wagner palace
sleepers, which were waiting for tben, o..
Tor the first time since going to Island Lake
'ne boys stripped like white people and
went to bed between clean. white sbeets
though the above is to be taken with soma
allowance, for there are one or two articIes
OF civilized wearing apparel designed es.
pecially for night use which do not appear
In the soldiers wardrobe.
Probably the cars In the three sections NJ
the train which moved the regiment never
peIore held such a ''unanimousv lot of
sleepers. Everybody slept, except the 8
guards, and they would have done so too If 1
tney mad been permitted, and the train had I
covered the hundred miles between Island n
Lake and Toledo via Detroit before anv q
were astlr. 1t was still early when the last
'ec''oh lert Toledo and none except work. T
ng people were about, but they commenced a
In ovation which lasted until after dark :.
ast night and which seemed to increase in :,
Varihth 10 direct proportion to the warmth b,
u the weather. Everyone did in his or her
!. 10 snow honor to the boys in blue :.
ne remlnlne pronoun should be kept we'll ~
the front, too. 1t seems that there Is a VI
erect mania among Ohio and Kentucky '"
IT'S at least for Uncle Sans brass buttons. ."
40 there are no small numbers of tbem nd
no are the possessors of them today. It's =,
ot 10 DC wondered at either for either the NJ
IT'S OF these states are universally pretty or 20
80 most OF the homley ones stayed at ~
'me' or else-and this is the last and most 'n'
iely guess to boys who had mingled in 'u'
asculine society almost exclusively for VIZ VIZ
rec weeks the girls looked pretty, simply wy
cause they were girls. However that NY
~ De- and suppose 1t is nonsense 10 he l
hting for reasons all of the time the wo
is all along the route did their best to do me-
oor TO the soldiers, and the latter certain. the
appreciated it. int
SAID the enthusiasm seemed to grow as Will
went south. Ii you could have seen mer
heard the reception given the trains at SOM
cinnati, you would have believed IL busl
Dry factory whistle along the line had sala
wn as though trying to give seventeen tive
alarms at once, while the boys were matt
sing, but In Cincinnati there are really 31st
many factories near the railroads Wbv S1,0'
nave to sit with your mouth omen. as has
: do when standing near cannon which will
cling fired, just to keep your ears from 31st.
& cracked, when all OF those whistles A
blowing at once. and
ou can imagine from what has been Satul
already that everyone In sight of the Lake
was waving something, flag, hand of ph
nief' apron, kat, or sunbonnet, but here from
Oinc'hnati took the prize. Just be- their
getting into the city the train passed by tw
- lew hundred yards OF pond the p
9 a number of young American patri. up fr
we're III Tor swim. When they saw thronf
AIN ana realized that they could not jected
to the railroad In time to give a civil. circuit
salute they scrambled up onto the cessioy
and fronting in the direction in which guests
most easy to keep their eyes on the banou,
informs In the car windows waved q toastm
with their shirts, and judging from poned
'pression on their faces, yelled like guests.
lends.
ther salute which took with the bows mari,
IS well was seen on this side of the IT os
where In the shady back yard of a He 10 =
ky home one of the prettiest girls med,col
the whole trip stood, just inside the other :,
y waving perfect beauty of a regime,
fsg. :,
9 had pretty nearly all kinds of was ,h
to look at from the level farm lands his a.,n
; punctured In some districts with moved |,
isands of oil wells, and ornamented his GOO,
yn derricks, ROckefeIler,s a,or,,.