, 1898-09-27
.AT HIS BIRTHPLACE
LIEUTENANT KNADER TALKS To
A REPORTER AT CHILLI
COTHE, OHIO.
Was Born in a Log House -Four Miles
From That Town, But Left There
in 1867 to Come West and Fight
Indians-Tells of Conditions at
Camp Panama.

The following is taken from the
Daily Gazette, published at Chilli
cothe. Ohio. and will prove interesting
to Lieutenant knadler's many friends
in Laramie:
Born in a log house four miles north
of this city, which still stands, and
reared and nurtured under the inf1u-
ences of the early days in old Ross
county, sprung from a family which
offered two sons to the country in the
late war, leaving here in 1867, when
almost a boy, and going to Wyoming
and the west, there to cast his lot in
with Uncle Sans b~,ue-coated soldiers
in holding the red men in check, cam
paigning in the bad lands of Arizona
and New Mexico and in the Indian
wars, Lieutenant Morgan #. Knadler,
of Troop c. Second United States vol
unteer cavalry, Colonel Torrey's rough
riders, could not help being a good SOL
dier.
NAaalSl ID ia u vi q
thirty days leave of absence from Pana-
ma Park at Jacksonville. Fla, his COM
mand being para.. General Lees corps,
the Seven.h. and hes stopped over here
at his Old home to visit relatives, Mrs.
Jacob Dump being his sister.
He will remain here a few days and
then proceed to Laramie, his home,
where he viii Nspend the remainder of
his leave with his wife and family.
Lieutenant Knadler has a son in the
service in theWyoming battalion, now
doing duty at Manila.
Speaking of life at the Jacksonville
camp, the lieutenant stated that the
camp there was probably the best and
most healthy in the country. at least
the percentage of sickness was very
small. He thought, harwever, that a
good deal of sickness depended on the
men themselves and upon their i'm
mediate superior officers.
OF course the climate had a good
deal to do with the conditions existing,
and many men and even horses of
the davalry became affected with a sort
Of fever which which was Of short dur
alton. Still, some had died from the
effects of 1t.
In regard to the ~rations, he said that
the government furnished more ra-
tions than the men could eat, and to
him plenty of bread seemed to be nee
essary to the soldier in the field, and
the Jacksonville camp had that.
He found nc fault with the rations,
and his duty as first lieutnant made 1t
incumbent upon him t o inspect the
food Of the men every day, and he al
ways found it all right. While the
officers messed together. the men at
the officers mess and that enjoyed by
the men was the same.
Speaking OF Colonel TOrrey, he said
that he was a stric. disc. piinarian, and
none of the officers were allowed to
curse the men, although none OF them
seemed inclined to do SO amy way, for
phey were all men from one vicinity
and had known one another In civil
life, and none Of them yer thought OF
taking the advantage offered by Shout
der straps to lord 1t over their men.
He mentioned the fact that the Sec
ond cavalry had a canteen, however,
and the proceeds CT this were divided
among the companies, giving each COM
pany about 500 per month and with
this extras were purchased for the
mess. such as milk and butter, and
other articles not down ON the govern
ment ration list.
Concerning the return to civil Life
and the desire to be mustered out, he
said that when peace was declared a
good many OF the men wanted to 20
home right away, but when they
learned that they we're in for two years
they soon buckled down to business
again, and now, with some service In
Cuba in sight. the discomfort has prac-
tically disappeared.
Lieutenant Knadler HAS seen much
service in the regular army as an en-
listed man, and he knows Just what he
is talking about. He has been in the
western campaigns, and knows what
war is. He speaks as an ofncer, but he
has had the experience of an enlisted
man, and he thinks that these COM
plaints about the iM-treatment and ne
elect are individual cases, picked up
here and there. and magnifed by the
newspapers into sensations.
This is Lieutenant Knadler's third
visit here since he left in 1867.