The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-13
BAND OF ROUGH RIDERS.
Thirty OF Grissby's Men Reached
st. Paul Yesterday-Sick and
wounded Regulars Still Arriving.

ST. FauI Yesterday-Sick and
Wounded Regulars Still Arriving.
"A report that special train bearing
several troops Of Grigsby's rough riders
Would arrive at the union depot during
the DAY drew a large number Of per-
sons TO that Building yesterday morn
ing. out they were disappointed In
eIeau Oh special train of soldiers only
dpoCl thirty OF the rough riders ar
IiVeu ana they travelled by tWos and
tnrees ana not in body. The rough
riders nave all been mustered out of
service at Chickamauga. A great many
are expected today. They will come
over the Omaha road and will 60 TO
Miles City and Butte in the afternoon.
one of the arrivals yesterday was
MAJ Monteith. of the Third squadron.
ne SAD all the men were glad to get
North. 100 many soldiers were en-
camped at Chickamauga and sickness
was inevitable. The men were drilled
100 hard when they first went into
camp, he said, and the exercise and
strange climate debilitated them SO
they could not resist malarial in
nuences. Maj. Monteith said Col.
Grlgspy would remain in Chickamauga
untu the last sick man in his regi-
ment was we'll. He would nurse the
men and take care Of them and would
not come North until all were in good
health.
A number Of sick soldiers passed
through the union depot yesterday en-
route from various camps to points in
this state and the West. Mrs Cora A.
Johnson, of the Red Cross society, and
Mrs. Schierman, of the German-Ameri-
can Red Cross society, were on hand
to greet them and look after their well
rare Three were men from the Third
regiment who were coming back to Fort
Smelling. One Of the soldiers, William
Kaski, of Troop D, of Grigsby's rough
riders, was so sick that he was taken
to the Bethel boat, where he remained
all night. HesWill go to Brainerd this
morning if he is strong enough for the
journey.
Another sickaman was Erwin Everson.
of Company H, Fourteenth Minnesota
regiment, who came from Chickamauga
on his way to Olivia Mrs. Johnson
nurSed him on the boat and placed him
on a train last evening for his home
The other soldiers who arrived yes
terday were:
NJ. E. Hicks, Second volunteer cavalry.
Chtckamauga to- Portland.
try W band L. Mapp sx X regular nfan
Sergeant F. 3. Parker, Third volunteer
cavalry. ChiGkamauga to North Dakota.
regular infantry, Montauk to- Spokane. Cit"
Charles Turner, Third regular infantry,
Montauk to Fort Smelling
Charles Musiet, Company NJ Third regular
infantry. Montauk to Fort Smelling
John johnson, Company H, Third regular
Infantry. Montauk to Fort Smelling.
Johnson was wounded during the bat
tie of Santiago in the left hand. The
wound was slight. He said the fever
was worse than the wound.
Private Dickson, of the Seventh, had
yellow fever and that was followed by
malaria. He is now convalescent and
says he will soon be we'll again.
Capt. S. R. Whitall, Of Company H,
Sixteenth regular infantry, was at the
depot yesterday. He went on the Great
Northern to Fort Sherman. His features
were haggard and he showed the traces
Of the sickness he has experienced in
Cuba. Capt. Whitall told a reporter
for The G / o b e that his regiment, with
the Sixth infantry was the first up the
hill! at the battle of San Juan. For
some time the men were obliged to fight
in a dense tropical forest, where they
could not see five feet ahead. When
they got in the open they charged the
Spaniards with a rush and the enemy
fell back amazed by the force of the
onslaught. The Spanish were not pre-
pared for fighting; they expected the
Americans to run as soon as fired upon,
and when they saw that the men IN
blue kept coming toward them instead
of retreating they became discouraged
and gave up the fight.
Capt Whitall said the barbed wire
fences were not as bad as they looked
and caused but little inconvenience to
the Americans. The intrenchments
were all we'll constructed, and if Amer
leans instead of Spaniards had held
them they never would have been dis
lodged.
Capt. WhitalI was asked about the
Seventy-first regiment New York vol
unteers and it's behavior at Santiago.
He declined to say anything about the
regiment or the charges that have been
made against it, saying that the regl-
mental officers are now quarreling
among themselves concerning those
matters and he preferred not to mix
UP in the controversy.