The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-21
COL. BARNETTS SOLDIERS
REGIMENT WILL PROBABLY LEAVE
CAMP MOUNT TOMORROW.
Official Notice from the War Depart
ment-Indiana Troops and the Phil
ippines-News of the Camp.


Col. John T. Barnett, Commanding One
hundred-and- fifty-ninth Indiana Volun-
teer Infantry, Indianapolis, Ind:
BY direction of the secretary of war you
will proceed at once with your regiment to
Dunloring, Va, near Washington, D. C..
and report to the commanding general
there Upon receipt of this order you will
at once communicate with chief quarter
master. at Chicago, for the necessary trans
portation, and with chief commissary, at
Chicago, for ten days field rations and the
necessary travel rations and coffee money.
Inc quartermaSter general and the commas
sary general have Instructed the chief
quartermaster and chief commissary to
provide the transportation rations and cof-
fee money. Telegraph day of depa rture to
commanding general at Camp Dunloring.
Va, also to this office, specifying amount
of tentage and ammunition taken with you.
Acknowledge receipt Fl. c. CORBIN,
"Adjutant General"
The above telegram was delivered to Col.
Barnett early yesterday morning. 1t is
dated May 10 and was delayed in the tele-
graph office for some reason unknown to
Colonel Barnett. AS soon as it was re-
ceived the officers in charge began prepare
tons for the move to Dunloring The first
thing to be arranged was the transporta-
ton. The officials of the Cincinnati. Ham
ilton & Dayton Railroad were notified by
the chief quartermaster. at Chicago, that
their road had been decided on as the one
to carry the regiment to Cincinnati. From
there either the Baltimore & Ohio or the
Chesapeake Ohio will take the regiment
to it's destination. The train which will
take the troops from Camp Mount will prob
ably be of four sections, for the One-hun-
dred-and-fifty- ninth will require more cars
than the other regiments did Colonel Bar
nett's regiment has no haversacks or KNAPP
sacks-its equipment was given to the other
three regiments when they moved-but a
baggage car will be necessary on each train
to carry the rations. The train, as planned
yesterday, will consist of four first-class
Pullman sleeping coaches for the commits
stoned officers, thirty-three Pullman tourist
sleeping coaches for the men, four baggage
cars, one Arms horse car for the fifteen
horses of the regiment and five box cars.
Thirty men will be allotted to each coach,
and Colonel Barnett, for the sake of the
comfort of his men, will not allow any more
than that number to be crowded into each
car. The box cars for the baggage of the
regiment will be ready on the Monon tracks
at the west border of the fair grounds to-
night in order that they may be loaded
early tomorrow morning. The passenger
coaches will be taken to the camp early to-
morrow morning. Colonel Barnett expected
yesterday to be able to leave the camp at
o CLOCK tomorrow afternoon.
The regiment is fortunate in that it will
not be delayed by supplies being on the road
to the camp Ten days rations are already
in the hands of Lieutenant Peterson, United
States quartermaster, and he has been in
structed that whatever else he may need in
the way of food supplies he may buy in
this city. AS to other equipment, the regi-
ment will be comfortably fixed. What may.
ment reaches Camp Dunloring. Yesterday
1,795 dark blue flannel shirts and 1000 pairs
of canton flannel drawers were taken to the
camp and will be issued to-day. They
came from the government depot at JEFF
fersonville. All day long yesterday the boys
streamed into the city and to the wholesale
houses, where they purchased socks and
shoes. This expense will be refunded to
them by the government. The blouses
which were consigned to the Governor had
been taken back to the Statehouse by State
Quartermaster General Richardson, though
they are United States property. Colonel
Barnett yesterday afternoon sent a wagon
to the Statehouse to bring to the camp
enough blouses to equip the men who are
without them. About 253 will be needed.
They, also, will be issued to-day.
All preliminary preparations for the move
will be made to-day, and tomorrow morn
ing the tents will be taken down, the bag
gage hauled to the box cars and loaded,
and then the regiment will be ready to start
for the camp at Dunloring. Camp Dunlor-
ing is about thirty miles out and is the
fourth station from Washington. From
what the officers of the regiment at Camp
Mount know of it it is to be the rendezvous
of about 10000 troops, and is within easy
reach of ports where the troops may be
loaded on transports to be taken to Cuba
when the time for invasion arrives.