The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-16
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come nome would start at that distance
but they were not complaining about
that and they shook hands through
the windows with every lady and gem
tleman who saw fit to put up his or her
hand, and the Misunderstanding was con-
tinuous all the way into town.
Meanwhile, the G o b e man had
had several conversations. He found
in very short time that the men were
not quite satisfied with the newspaper
accounts of the affair at Santiago. It
was clear to them that the Third had
been neglected, and it would be clear
to anybody that such was the case
after listening to them.
SAW FEARFUL SERVICE.
They saw some fearful service. They
went to Cuba expecting it, and they
got just what they were looking. for
in the line Of hard knocks AS for the
difference in the statements made by
them and those that have been made
by the volunteer officers, that was
easily explained. They were largely
trained troops. They were all thor
oughly disciplined, and they could eat
the army ration. With the under
standing that names should not be
used, the G o b e man verified these
facts, as showing how the line of the
army had been supported by the staff:
When the Third left Smelling it was
fully and perfectly equipped for the
field. The equipment included a field
hospital corps of a surgeon. two hos
pital stewards and a dozen assistants,
field ambulances in plenty and an ade-
quate supply of medicine and bandages.
When they were turned loose at
Slboney, they had one medical officer.
hospital steward, two nurses and no
medicines.
They were directed by the staff to
load everything of their equipage so
that it could be slowed on the trans
port Breakwater, which carried the
regiment to Cuba. They went ashore
in the surf in identically the clothing
and packs they carried when they left
Fort Smelling.
Let it be said to the credit of the
war department that one day last week
at Montauk Point every pound of the
field equipage that was packed on the
transport at Tampa was returned to
the regiment unused. The honesty of
the officials is much admired by the
members of the Third but some .of
those who are lying I'M hospitals will
figure that the tents, medical stores
change of clothing and a few other
things might have been used in Cuba
Not single pound of the material
provided for the field service Of this
regiment ever reached the regiment
during the campaign.
The department never can be made
to understand how much quinine SOL
der can get away with" said one vel
low fellow. who had evidently had a
pad time. 1t appears that at first
the surgeons could deal out quinine by
the handful of capsules The men
took it about that way Soon after
they arrived in Cuba the quinine gave
out
They got their rations, thanks to the
energy of the division quartermaster
ana his assistants. Each man had his
portion of bacon, bareback and coffee
at least once a day. If he was sick or
well he got the same ration. That may
account for the fact that the ones who
remained strong enough to, eat surviv-
ed
NO HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT.
There was no hospital equipment. If
man got sick enough or was wounded
badly enough he was sent to the divi-
sion hospital. There was rumor In
the regiment that the division hospital
was good place to go. None of those
who returned last night had ever got
i'll enough to go there
These are the facts Of the campaign.
Lieut.. Col. Harbach was delighted to
see the st. Paul people, as were his or
f1cers. In the car with him were: Capt.
Hannay, Capt. Kennedy, Lieut.. Gid
dings, acting regimentai adjutant;
Lieut.. Ross, acting quartermaster;
Lieut.. Houle, Lieut.. Wygant, Lieut.
Humphrey and DR.. Harris, acting as
sistant surgeon. The G o b man
asked about the rest of the officers ard
some Of them were located:
Adjt. McRae, Ill of fever at Atlanta, GA.
New York.
Lieut.. McAndrews. fever Montauk.
Lieut.. Byroads, fever, Johnstown, Pa.
Lieut. Smith. tever, Passaic.
Lieut. Frisell. fever. Cape Girardeau.
Lieut. Barker, fever, Syracuse.
How did you get through the CAM
paign?" was asked of Col. Harbach.
We'll l got through we'll enough" he
answered. He looked it, A clean cut.
soldierly man ready for any amount OF
hard work. He talked of the few days
before the taking Of Santiago in a
chatty way:
They landed u.s." said the colonel,
after Smelling the town at Siboney and
didn't keep us waiting long to go up
into the country. We had rather a bad
time on a couple Of marches, but other
wise got through as well as could be
expected"
He did not desire to talk about the
lack of supplies and was asked directly
how it came about that the volunteers,
the Ninth Massachusetts, flor instance,
suffered so horribly o That regiment
lost nearly every field and!Astaff officer.
That is easily accounted for" he
said. 'The men threw away every
thing they had as soon as they went
on the march. They lack experience,
and they slept in low marshy places.
The could not eat the army ration.
Now, our men were too wise to throw
away anything they had-they didn't
have much-they picked out the high
places to sleep on, and, above all, they
1t might have been tough Occasionally
FOR some Of them to eat the bacon
when there was no fire, and 1t was not
always easy to make coffee But they
could get along on the bareback, and
they did get along" ~ ~
WHERE ARE THE MISSING?
"But you have only about half the
men you went away with"
That's true, but some of them
went to the hospital, some have been
sent nome and some gave way to the
IeVer. Ii you'll look them up here,
you IL ma that the old campaianers
are not missing. And, by the way, 1t