Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-12
At CAMP POWERS.
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field and informed the officers of the
regiment that there was a possibility
of their being used. as it was rumored
that Secretary of War Alger and Ad-
Jutant General Corbin wanted to issue
call for $4,000 more volunteers, so
That perhaps there was yet a chance in
store for them.
The announcement was met with
cheers that were re-echoed all over the
Held. as the news spread, and for the
iirst time in several days, the End Regi-
ment was actually happy They left
home for war, and they want to keep
the folks at home singing, when
Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, >
for a time longer They.want the folks;
at nome to learn to feel their absence,
and thus appreciate them more when
| they are again there. And more they
| want chance to SCRAP" with the
| Span!ards. and do something beside
shout. Remember the Maine."
| Speaking of General Richards, his ap-
| preach to the camp is a signal for ad-
mirins comments from the soldiers, for
| they respect and admire the military
looking gentleman, who sits his nervous
charger with a grace born of years Of
experience.
An order was issued by the adjutant
general, Wednesday, that gave permits
sion to Colonel G. a. Phlbrool1 to leave
the camp and go to his home on ac-
count of illness.
No orders were issued for the 2nd to
so to their homes, and it is stated that
for the present they will remain in
camp.
The dress parade was omitted by
both regiments on account of the rain
and wet grass.
The hospital corps has been having
little work lately in the surgical line,
two men of the list Regiment. who were
rejected on account of hammer toes
having these offending toes removed
One operation was performed, Tuesday,
and the other. Wednesday.
Otherwise the cases Of illness are con-
fined to bad colds. 1t is expected that
the rain of Wednesday afternoon will
develop several colds by today.
If all the anathemas that have been
hurled against the examining board Of
surgeons should fall upon their heads,
they would be hurled into the earth
with such force that Spain would be
the only place where the unlucky re-
cruits would wish them to stop.
The iron clad examinations are the
cause of many a curse from the lips of
those who failed to pass, and from
many Of the friends of those who
failed. Yet the examining board still
lives, and are apparently all uncon-
scious of what is going on about them.
except that they have all the work
they can attend to. and that they have
I their duty to perform.
There was n great storm in progress,
Wednesday afternoon, when it Was
learned that one of the crack COM
panics of the End, Co. G, had been
turned down in a wholesale manner
by the surgeons in the forenoon.
Captain bennett took % or more If
his men down to the cottage on West
ern avenue. where the men so to hear
their fate declared, and of the whole
number u were rejected.
This rejection will not hold good, it IS
understood. if the company should be
| needed for the field service. as the e<-
lamination was made at the instigation
| of Captain bennett, who, it is said. was
/ offered the monitor Montauk for him
lsself and company.
After the examination was over, It
was rumored that Captain bennett and
several of his men had decided to 20
| into the 1st Regiment in Co. c of Au
| burn. where he will hold a 1st lieuten-
ants commission.
| When asked about the matter Cap
| tain Denett said that he was contelu-
! plating the change. and should decide
very soon. but since he had heard the
rumor that $1,000 more volunteers We're
| needed, and would soon be called for
| by the President, he was undecided
| how to act.
| An order was issued by the adjutanE
| general, Wednesday, stating that the
| battery of heavy artillery would be
! formed from Major York's battalion Of
| the End Regiment, and for that puf-
pose the companies We're sent down
| before the examining board in the
| afternoon Only two of the companies,
| Co.'S b and ID of Lewiston, were eX-
| amincd and a very small per cent.
| turned down 1t is thought that the
battery will be formed wholly by these
! companies, and those that are needed
to fill the ranks will be taken from
| their native city.