The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-17
COL. BARNETT,S REGIMENT.
Major Fee on the COurt-Martial Try.
ing Captain Duncan, of Kansas.

Correspondence or the journal.
| THOROUGHFARE GAP, Va, Camp of
the MISUNDERSTANDING ninth Indiana
Volunteers. Aug. 1.-THE small towns
through which this army passes from day
| to day reap a large benefit from the visit.
In every case the stores are cleaned out,
as If struck by panic. In some cases all
of the stock is not paid for, but the mer-
chant manages to close with a large bal
ance in his favor in addition to getting rid
of an old WORKOUT stock. What will they
buy?" asked a merchant in the village of
Thoroughfare. Very soon after the soldiers
began to straggle into town he found that
they stood ready TO buy anything ''eatable"
and ask no questions. Prices begin to go
up in very much Letter manner, and be-
fore the visit is finished prices have ad-
vanced fully so per cent Captain Starr
visited general store at Thoroughfare one
day and bought the best pair of shoes in the
stock. After wearing them one day in the
mud he was obliged to call in the regimen
tai shoemaker and have them rebuilt.
Major Anderson, a Confederate veteran,
attached himself to the Northumberland
fifty-ninth as a suffer at Camp Alger, and
has been with the command ever since. AT
each stop on the march the major was the
first man to greet the soldiers. He has a
stock of goods. but he manages to sell
everything in sight about three times a
day. He poses as a warm friend of every
man in the regiment and manages to keep
the other hand in touch with any money
the soldiers may possess.
General Davis has put himself on a solid
footing with the division by announcing to-
day that there would be no move until the
men were paid. The question of a next
move will not be settled until the new
shoes for the command are at hand. 1t will
require 1900 pairs to fit out the division.
The shoes first issued the men were made
of paper and went to pieces in the trst
days march. Since then about third of
the men have been barefooted.
A wrestling match in Company G, Sun
day morning in which Musician Nelson of
that company, was seriously and perhaps
fatally hurt, caused Colonel Mccoy to in
struct captains to stop that kind of work
for good.
Cole as president, and four colonies and
four majors as members, met Saturday in
the case of Captain Duncan, assistant sur
geon of the Twenty-second Kansas who is
charged with having disturbed the grave of
a Confederate officer, and proceeded to hear
the case. Major Fee is the only officer from
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
board. 1t is charged that Captain Duncan
when found they were knocking the gold
filled teeth from the skull of the skeleton
Captain Duncan enters a denial in fOh and
will be represented by Major Harvey, of
his regiment, VINO is not only brilliant
lawyer. but is at present lieutenant gov
ernor of Kansas. The case is of peculiar
interest to the Hoosers. as the crime was
committed near the camp of the One-hun-
dred-and fifty-ninlh. and was first charged
to its door.
The announcement of the signing of the
peace agreement did not create much ex-
citement in this camp. The men had long
ago given up all idea of seeing active Serv-
ice and the prospective march of 40 miles
is at present of vastly more Importance
to them than peace among nations.
The men who only a few months ago
were accustomed to the best of everything
in the way of clothes and food, to-day put
up with almost nothing with the easy good
nature of optimistic Americans. Near the
capital of great nation they splash around
wet to the skin, without shoes. without I'M
der clothing and in many cases without
enough food. They perform many dlstaste-
full duties of a soldiers life without so much
as murmur. When one of them forgets
himself so far as 10 kick he is at once
assailed on every side. and is soon glad IT,
Quit A young newspaper man. VINO
ALWAYS stopped at the best hotels and al
ways been free to find fault with them.
dnds soldering an ideal existence, despite