Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-15

tention of the military authorities to
provide regular army rations during
encampments which will cost from %
to 80 cents a day per man. This will
be a big saving for the men. The
guard will camp each year as hereto
fore, each regiment being in camp
seven days. This year the first regi-
ment will go into camp early
in August. .he national govern
ment Will furnish the new uniforms
and tentage about the middle of July.
A new style of tent, one with conical
walls, is to be used. Each will accom-
modate 16 men. our of these will be
furnished each company, with two, Z
by feet in dimensions, for first Sar-
geant and quartermaster sergeant and
two, 9 by feet, for the officers.
The state has so far received $4,000
from the federal government in part
payment on its claim for equipping
troops sent to the Spanish war. There
is yet due about s150000. Special
Agent E. G. Mullen is looking a. .er this
and other claims of the state against
the United States.
The following data regarding the old
regiments will be of interest at this
time:
1st Regiment infantry, Wisconsin
volunteers-Organized as national
guard, April 26, 1882; as volunteers
April %, 1898, at Camp Harvey, Mil
waukee, Wis; mustered into the SER
vice of the United States May IA, 1898,
at Camp Harvey, to serve two years
unless sooner discharged; assigned to
I'd brig, I'd div, 7th corps, May %,
1898; mustered out October 10, 1898;
total strength of regiment, 1857; died
uel p. Schadel. Lieut.. Col. Charles S.
Young, Majors George H. Joachim,
Daniel A. Stearns and John J. Lynch.
I'd Regiment infantry Organized as
national guard, April 26, 1882; as vol
unteers April %, 1898, at Camp Har-
vey; mustered into the service of the
United States May II, 1898, at Camp
Harvey, to serve two years unless
sooner discharged; assigned to Sd
brig, LIST div, LIST corps, May II, 1898,
at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga, Ga;
transferred to LIST brig, list div, list
corps, July 5, 1898; mustered out from
Nov. 9th to 21st, 1898; engagements,
Coamo Porto Rico, August 9, 1898;
Aibonita Pass, Porto Rico, August II,
1898; total strength of regiment, 1,349;
died of disease, SO; field officers, Col
onel Charles A. Born, Lieut.. Colonel
Albert Solliday, Majors Charles J.
Hunter (resigned July 7, 1899, Nathan
e. Morgan, Frank w. Gruetzmacher,
and Wallace P. Greene.
Sd Regiment Infantry-Organized as
national guard, April 80, 1888; as vol
unteers April %, 1898, at Camp Har-
United States May II, 1898, at Camp
Harvey, to serve two years unless soon
er discharged; assigned to list brig,
1st div, LIST corps, May 16, 1898, at
Camp Thomas, Ga; mustered out from
Jan. Sth to 18th, 1899; engagements,
Aibonita Pass, Porto Rico, August II,
1898; total strength of regiment 1858;
killed in action 2; died of disease Al;
wounded in action 3; field officers,
Colonel Martin T. Moore, Lieut.. Col.
Benjamin F. Parker, Majors Thomas j..
dolph A. Richards.
4th Regiment infantry Organized as
national guard, April %, 1884; as vol
unteers June 81, 1898, at Camp Douglas,
Wis., mustered into the service of the
United States July II, 1898, at Camp
Douglas, Wis, to serve two years I'M
less sooner discharged; assigned to I'd
brig, 1st div, Sd corps, September, IS
90; transferred to I'd brig, I'd div, 4th
corps, Oct. IA, 1898; transferred to LIST
separate brigade, I'd corps, Jan. 16,
1899; mustered out February %, 1899,
at Admission, Ala; total strength Of
regiment, 1901; died of disease, II;
field officers, Colonel Horace M. Sea-
man, Lieut.. Colonel Frank M. Caldwell,
Majors Abraham B. Gambler and
Theodore X. Birkhaeuser.
Battery ga" first light artillery
Organized as national guard, May II,
1885, as volunteers July T. 1898, at
Camp Douglas, Wis; mustered into the
service of the United States July 8,
1898, at Camp Douglas, Wis, to serve
two years unless sooner discharged;
mustered out October s, 1898, at Camp
Douglas, Wis; total strength Of bat
terry, 109 officers, Captain Benjamin H.
Daily, First Lieut. George G. Simpson,