Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-08-25
lST MAY COME HOME
FRIENDS PETITION THAT 1T BE
MUSTERED OUT.
SCOFlELO MAY SO REQUEST
Says He v IL Probably Act in Ac-
cordance With Desires of His Pc
titloners-Col. Schadel Receives
Hight Praise for Prohibiting a Can
teen in His Regiment.

Governor Scotield Friday received a
petition from The Monroe relatives
and friends If the members OF Co.
ii, LIST Wisconsin volunteers, at Jack
sonyille, urging him 10 exert his in
fuence with the president TO have
the regiment mustered OUT and not
sent TO Havana with General FltZ-
hugh Lee as parC Cf the army of oc-
cupation. The petitioners state That
the regiment is not in pr per cond-
ton 10 withstand the diseases Incl
dent 10 the climate OF cuba, that a
needless sacrifice of health and life
| would be caused by us being sent to
the island, that more than sufficient
number OF troops accustomed to a
/ hot climate can be taken from the
/ extreme southern states and that
many of the Wiscon. in volunteers are
business men and heads of families
who are DESTROYS of returning hone
at the earliest possible moment. 1t
Is hoped that prompt action on the
part OF the governor Will induce the
president TO change his contemplated
musterlng-out order so as to include
the Wisconsin regiment. Racine and
other home cities OF companies in
the regiment are preparing to send
-fr i1op 60, hn
latter says he will probably act in ac-
cordance with the desires of his petit
TONERS.
The following letters were received
by Col. S. 2. Schadel, commanding
the first Wisconsin volunteers az
camp Cuba labre, who was the only
mmanding officer of regiment
there who held out against gr, at pres
sure of officers and men TO allow
beer and wine to be sold at the reg
mental canteen:
Dear Sir:-Tbe Woman's Christian
Temperance union at its last regular
meeting, voted to extend to you a
most sincere vote of thanks for not
allowing 'canteen' to be established
under your command. 1t is very
gratifying to us to know of temper
auce man among the officers at camp
Cuba Libre. Yours in loving loyalty
to the grand white ribbon,
Mrs. H. V. Stephens,
Cor. Sec'y FIR the w. c. r. IT,"
Dear Colonel;-l congratulate You
on the heroic position you have
assumed in regard to the selling of
beer and other intoXicants in the
regiment of u. S. volunteers under
you command. You certainly are de
serving OF the plaudits of this whole
nation i'll the position you have taken
for the protection of your men from
a foe far more ruinous to b dy and
soul than the enemy's bullets. May
GOD bless and reward you for the
courage displayed, in which you OPP
posed the nsensus of military opin-
ION. in reference TO selling beer in
the army canteen, is the earnest de-
sire Of all interested. Yours respect
fully, Anna E. Rainey,
"Supt Soldiers and Sailors,
Florida w. c. T. u
Badgers Badly Treated.
Boston, Aug. 20.--Brig Gen. Will
liam j Bancroft of the stan OF Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, in command of the
seventh corps, has arrived home, hay-
ing resigned on the signing Of the
peace protocol that he might attend
to business engagements. Gen. Ban
croft sharply criticised the manage
nient Of the army, pointed out the
mortality in the LIST Wisconsin regi-
ment at Jacksonville as proof of his
charge, and told how the troops had
been inadequately provided f-r as re-
CARDS equipment and care, and en-
phatically declared that the army
must be reorganized to be Of further
utility Speaking Of affairs with the
seventh army c1rps at Jacksonville.
he said:
THE conditions attendant upon the
arrangements TO guard against sick
ness were bad in the extreme. BY
the laws of the city OF Jacksonville
the troops were not allowed to dig
necessary trenches in the usual way
pursued by an army either in camp
or when engaged in campaign,
Tubs were merely sunk in the earth,
and these were very few in number,
considering the thousands OF men in
camp. My brigade was encamped
in a swamp, and the effeco Of the poor
sanitary arrangement | have .poken
OF was terrible. why, in one OF my
regiments. the LIST Wisconsin, ten men
alone died from typhoid and dysen-
terry and nearly 200 W re down with
fever. due 10 the same cause. The
loss to this regiment by death in the
camp and To the causes which have
described was fully that Of some OF
the regim MS now at the front. Then
the tentage was bad. Another cause
OF trouble was that the men them
selves were not conyerSant with the
first rules necessary TO preserve health
in camp. Then there was careless
ness somewhere In prutid ms medic4
attendance. When | got Id the camp
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