The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-15
The Regiment, with Flying CoIOrs,
VIII Start from Camp Mount
Shortly After Dinner.
STREET PARADE DOWN TOWN
ONE OF THE FEATURES ARRANGED
BY REGIMENTAL OFFICERS.
Battery E, of Fort Wayne, and Bat
terry A, of This City, Go To-Day
Programme for TO-MOrrOw.

Yesterday saw more than four thousand
men in active preparation TO leave camp
Mount for Camp George III. Thomas at
Chickamauga Park. but the place was
more quiet and the routine less eventful
than on any other day since the camp was
established at the fair grounds. The One
hundred-and-fifty -ninth Regiment, the old
First, was interrupted in the midst of it's
preparations to move by a telegram which
came to Colonel Barnett from Adjutant
General Corbin, at Washington, instructing
him that his regiment should be held at
Camp Mount until further orders. The
statement gave rise to the belief that the
regiment will be fully equipped before 1t
leaves for it's destination wherever that
may be, instead Of being equipped at Chick
amauga Park, as the other three regiments
will be. All through the day the usual
drills went on, the usual number of visitors
appeared, and the only thing to mark the
day from any of the others that had passed
was a review at o'clock by Governor
Mount, which was announced, because Of
the hurried preparations to leave the camp,
to be the last.
Railroad officials visited all of the regi-
mental commanders during the day ard in
formed them of the transportation arrange
ments, which were stated to be final unless
further instructions should come from the
War Department to-day. At L o'clock this
afternoon Colonel Studebaker's regiment
Battery E, of Fort Wayne, and Battery
A, of Indianapolis, will start from
the camp and march down through the city
to the Union Station, where they will load
on three Pennsylvania trains of thirty-four
cars in all, consisting of three palace Sleep
ing cars for the officers. eighteen coaches
for the privates, one palace stock car for
the horses, three baggage cars one fiat car,
and eight freight cars, which will be equip
ped with air brakes so that they may run
on passenger train time.
The One-hundred-a nd-fifty- eighth Regi-
ment, Colonel Harry B. Smith, will move
sometime before noon tomorrow. The men,
horses and baggage will be loaded on Big
Four trains on the Monon tracks at the
western border of the fair grounds
and will go South by way of
Cincinnati, changing there to the
Queen & Crescent route to Chatta-
nooga. Four trains on the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton will convey Colonel Gunders
regiment, the old Fourth, to Cincinnati, and
the Queen & Crescent will take the men
from there to Chattanooga. The trains will
start at noon tomorrow. Nine hundred and
fifty men and fifty officers with their
horses. will board the trains, which will
consist of forty-one cars, thirty-two for the
privates
With each train conveying the troops
South will be a freight car occupied by a
branch of the commissary department. and
from these cars the men will be served with
their meals. For each meal the soldiers
will be served with three-quarters OF a
pound of canned corn beef and loaf of
soft bread Each one hundred men will be
provided with fifteen three-pound cans of
baked beans. Instructions will be tele-
graphed ahead of the trains to towns which
will be reached about meal times to prepare
a sufficient amount of hot coffee. The
coffee will be purchased by the commissary
department as used Each man is to be
allowed three pints of coffee day.
There was considerable inconvenience to
the men at meals yesterday because of a.
confusion in Quartermaster General Rich
ardsons department, which had stripped the
old First and Fourth Regiments of almost
everything except the clothes on the bows
backs to fit out completely the old Second
and Third Regiments, which it was believed
would leave alone for Chickamauga. One
to drink from, and many fingers were sub
stituted for knives and forks. The bows
endured this good-naturedly. however, and
said they might we'll get in training for
hard service now as at any time
The plan now outlined by Colonel Stude-
baker for leaving the city is as follows:
Forming on the main driveway in the fair
grounds, the One undred-and-f fty-seventh
Regiment, with Battery E, of Fort
Wayne, and Battery A, of INDIANAPOLIS
VIII march by tours over to Meridian street
and south on Meridian to the city. At Me-
ridian and Ohio the troops will turn west
to Illinois and south on Illinois to the Union
Station. Arrangements have been made to
give the departing soldiers rousing good
bye salute by their comrades, and it is ex-
pected their trip to the depot will be in the
nature of an ovation all along the line.
All day yesterday the girls who pose as
hero worshipers did a land office business
collecting buttons from the uniforms of the
soldiers for keepsakes, and the news that
the troops We're to go away to-day served
to stimulate the demand for the mementoes
Nightfall only saved the boys enough but
tons to hold their clothes together. as the
fair beggars were then obliged to leave the
camp
The bands of all the regiments have been
,practicing diligently for several days in an
ticipation of the order TO parade through
the city, and, with the help of the martial
music, it is anticipated that the sight of the
Indiana soldiers going to the front will be
a pretty one and will tend to arouse the
pride and patriotism of every one of the
great throng of people that is expected to
be on hand to see them off on their way