The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-06

ranks Win MS company.
Lieutenant Colonel Mccoy will muster re-
eruits for this regiment, instead of Lieut..
MCCOY, of Company A. G.. w. B.
Health of the Regiment Improving.
Correspondence of the Journal.
CAMP THOMAS Chickamauga Park
Ga June 4.-Afternoon drills have been
done away with, so now the boys of the
and-fifty-eighth Indiana have
nothing 10 do from $50 a. m. till parade in
the evening at O'Clock.
All camp peddling has been prohibited, ex-
cept farmers with produce and grocery
wagons from Chattanooga. AS a result of
this order the health of the boys is much
better. They cannot now get those half
baked Jumps of dough with a layer of ber-
ries between and which were enormously
called pies. They were sold by Georgia
crackers and negroes. AS result of more
regular diet the health of the regiment is
improving. Among the officers the health
is excellent. Colonel Smith was at break
fast this morning, and enjoyed the same
All his staff recognized the fact that he
was better from the way in which he joked
and roasted the other officers His re-
cital of campaign stories and the way in
which candidates are bled caused Chaplain
Christensen to come forward with a hard
luck story 1t seems the chaplain has been
interested in a scheme to present to every
man IN the regiment copy of the New
Testament and a hymn book. The books
landed here yesterday and had over Sc ex-
pressage due on them. So the chaplain,
after hearing the colonel's stories, at once
hit him for a campaign donation. The
amount was donated by the officers of the
mess and the chaplain was happy
DR.. Fred Charlton, who was taken ill yes
terday, became jealous of the attention
which his brother officers who were sick
had received, so he went outside of his tent
and tainted. He received medical attention
at once and passed a good night He is
much better this morning and is able to go
out and attend to the location of his di-
vision hospital.
Lieutenant Scott of Company l, who has
been on the sick list for some time, is able
10 be out and take short walk He is on
the road to recovery. The measles still
continue to crop out and this morning Cor
poral Engle, or Company +, reported at
sick call with a beautiful rash spreading
over ms face. AS a result his tent mates,
PriVates Stanley, Austen and Hubig, OF the
same company, We're sent to quarantine.
private &. e. Moon, of Company ii, who
is detailed at the commissary department,
last evening saw what he thought was a
large rat run into his quarters. lie raised
his foot to stamp on it, when it raised up
on its launches and looked at him in a
pittul way, as much as to say, please
lowered his foot and took closer view of
the animal. What he saw was a young
opossum, which he picked up and cared for
IL is the size and color of large gray rat.
1t mas been adopted as a commssary mas
cot
Bishop Gailor, of Suwanee, Tenn, Epis-
copal bishop of Tennessee, will preach to-
morrow Sunday night at General Poland S
headquarters. orders will be issued allow
ing all the men to cross the lines in oraer
that all who wish may hear the bishop.
The observation-disclosures fty-eighth has or
ganzed for choir practice. Those of each
battalion who will attempt to sing are prdc-
ticing. The singers OF the first battalion
met Friday night. The second met Satur-
day night and the third battalion win meet
Monday night They learning Moody
and Sankey hymns.
An item in paper yesterday said that
General Brooke would probably be sent to
Porto Rico, and men or the One-hundred-
and -tifty-eighth are inclined to think that
such a move would take them. They all
prefer Porto Rico to Cuba.
regiment is enormouS-from six to eight
large sacks full every day. Every man here
probably receives an average OF one letter
Lieutenant Conzlin, of Company f, who
gave up his dental practice to go to the
front, has received his dental Instruments
from home and is now prepared to fill or
pull teeth or do anything necessary to keep
the boys in such shape that they can eat
case on hand they always send for Lieut..
Conklin.
The canteen question is still discussed,
and, for the most part, Colonel Smith is
commended for the stand he has taken.
Alcoholic drinks and this hot climate do not
go well together. In all the exercises the
regiment has had the misunderstanding
ty-eighth boys have stood the test better
than the men from regiments where a can
teen has been established. The unanimous
opinion of the army surgeons is that those
who 80 through a Cuban campaign must
let alcoholic drinks alone. The experience
of Colonel Smiths men here seems to prove
that opinion.
To-day is wash day in camp instead of
Monday as at home. 1t would amuSe the
regiments friends at Indianapolis to see
the boys here take their bundles of clothes
and one of those old-fashioned washboards,
which are peddled through camp, and start
for the creek. They don't even have an up
to-date washing machine, but must take
their Washboard and Scrub--and scrub it is
Boys who at home would not think of even
carrying their laundry to the shop, here do
their own washing just as though they had
always done it.
rest and general cleaning up. with possibly
inspection of quarters. On Monday. it is
said, the regiment will have battle exer-
cises again. The boys like these exercises,
because they swing along in a free-and-
easy manner, can talk a little and chew
their tobacco and spit without being called
down by their captain. Then, too, they
have a rest whenever the column stops, and
after getting home other drills are off for
the day. j. l. IL.