The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-16
HOOsiers at Tampa Transferred to the
Fourth Amy Corps, Under Ma
jOr General Coppinger.
INCIDENTS OF CAMP LIFE
RETURN TO INDIANA OF A SOLDIER
WHO is WANTED AT TAMPA.
First Death in Colonel Gunder's Regi-
ment-NO Orders Received at
Chickamauga to Move South.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.


PORT TAMPA, Fla, June 15.-By order
of General Hall, issued to-day, Colonel
Studebaker's regiment will send detail to
Indiana to recruit up to the full war
strength. The colonel this afternoon desig-
mated Major Frazier, Lieutenant Dunbar
and Adjutant Scott to recruit. They will
leave in a day or so with a private from
each company for northern Indiana This
does not mean that the regiment is to re-
main in Tampa all summer,
Assistant Surgeon r. T. Garstang, of In
dianapolis, was shown honor to-day when
he was ordered attached to the division hos
ptal. All the important surgical cases are
sent to this hospital.
Capt. William E. English, of General
Wheeler's staff, will be the first Indiana
volunteer to set foot on Cuban soil in this
war.
The Studebaker men are enjoying their
camp more since it was cleaned, and the
eight days rations delivered to-day are bet
ter than those heretofore received. Colonel
Studebaker is spending the evening in town
with his family. Each day now brings a
rainstorm, a touch of the ELECTROMAGNETIC
on Cuban season approaching. A strong
rumor reached camp to-day that pay day
would come tomorrow.
Under date Of June 10 the Journals staff
correspondent with Colonel Studebaker's
regiment at Port Tampa says: This morn
ing it all seems to be definitely settled; the
One hundred- and-fifty-seventh Indiana is to
go to Porto Rico with the second eXpedi-
ton, which will include the troops at jack
sonville and those remaining at Tampa
after the Shafter corps gets away. long
train flew past the Indiana camp towards
Port Tampa docks a few minutes ago. On
board it were General Miles, in a private
car, and encourage, besides the small host
which is to accompany the first invading
army in various capacities outside the fight
ing department General Miles is to watch
the embarkation.
ANOTHER FALSE ALARM.
For the fifth time at least the alarm has
been given the ships are to sail. and this
time it is promised there will be no abortive
coup. Noon was the hour for departure of
the last transport of the line A sailing
hour at this port is somewhat flexible. and
noon fingered over till o'clock in the even
ing, and still the transports did not sail
Still encamped on shore is the provisional
division, embracing volunteer troops at
first attached to General Skaters corps.
These enthusiastic citizen warriors, ready
for the battlefield, find the government has
failed them at the last moment. Not enough
transports is the apology offered by the
War Department. In command of the vol
unteer brigades and the division are reg
ular army officers, who have been as hope
full Of a Cuban trip as the privates, and
these men are disgruntled, too Trained to
smother their opinions and believe i'm
plicitly in their superiors, they are too good
to Lot hoir haOOnQ
public property, but in the privacy of their
tents they think some very hard thoughts
against the stupid management of affairs
at Port Tampa and Tampa. In the first
place, the transports were overcrowded.
Here the doctors protested. Herding men
like sheep was not conducive to the proper
esprit for an army corps expected to land
in a few days on a hostile coast and fight
tenaciously for every inch of ground neces-
sary for a base of supplies. Inadequate
provisions of supplies had been made for
horses and mules, too, and day OH the
transports convinced the quartermasters
that transportation facilities would be al
most worthless when the destination was
reached Horses fell over from sheer lack
of air. All this had to be remeded. The
boats were unloaded, and in changing the
order of things the volunteers had to suffer
disappointment. At first it was intended
to leave one company from each regiment
to guard excess baggage and parapherna-
liza After the volunteers were disposed or,
however, more room was found and much
more tentage and equipment than was orig
inally intended to be shipped was taken.
No companies were detached
NOW UNDER COPPINGER.
The departure of the first expedition
ferred to the Fourth Army Corps under
General Coppinger, who succeeded Major
General Shafter in command at Tampa and
vicinity The regiment is now in the Third
Brigade of the First Division of this corps.
General Snyder commands the division,
while the brigade is still under General
Hall. One of the high-ranking officers said
in a conversation this morning that there
was no doubt Of the destination of the One
hundred-an d-ffty-seventh Indiana now. 1t
will be in the expedition to leave for Porto
Rico in about seven days. The transports
viii probably be back within that time.
However, there are so many changes in
plans each day that this assurance is mere
ly given on the strength of this officers
statement. He is a man in position to know
whereof he speaks.
Since daylight a half hundred men with
axes, AIDES and picks have been chopping
and grubbing the raw palmetto roots in
camp, preparing the place for an extended
stay if necessary These palmettos are apt
ly named. In the foliage and root OF the
stunted trees are saw-like sheaths which
are ruinous to shoes. The Sunday night
rain gave not a few of the boys an unwel-
coined bath. and at sick call this morning
were lined up cases OF slight colds The fury
Of a tropical storm was new experience
to the Hoosiers. So vivid and continuous
flashed the lightning it seemed as If an arc
light day had broken over the low country.
Driving sheets Of water beat down on the
canvas for hours. and only the character OF
the sandy soil. so dry from q drought last