The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-31
INVITE ALL REGIMENTS.
DIR. Caine Makes a Suggestion Re
gaPding Our Coming Celebration.

garding Our Coming Celebration.
To the Editor Of the Globe:
AS one of the soldiers of the war with
Spain, [ respectfully ask the people of
the Twin Cities and this great common
wealth if they will permit the subtle hyp-
nottst to influence them7to believe there
was but one regiment called by the pres
ident to be raised in Minnesota to partic-
ipate in the war with Spain?
It has not been forgotten by the four
thousand men who served in the Twelfth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth regiments, Min
nesota volunteer infantry, that 1t was the
good fortuneof the Thirteenth regiment to
receive donations to become a regimental
fund approximating the amount of 800
previous to their departure for San Fran
cisco and the Philippines, $500 of this
sum having been presented by a proni-
nent citizen of ST. Paul and deposited TO
the credit of the Thirteenth regiment in
the Bank of Hong Kong, China.
The regimentaI fund of the gallant
Thirteenth was a sum sufficient to afford
our fortunate comrades to live In luxury
in sickness or health, while they were
quartered in the city Of Manila, occupying
substantial buildings as barracks, and to
provide all rations in the way of delica-
cies while engaged campaigning.
Permit me to mention how well the
Twelfth was provided for III the way Of
donations by patriotic citizens and philan-
thropists. This regiment was composed
largely of country boys from the smaller
cities and villages of Minnesota, with the
exception Of and E companies, which
came from WinOna, and L company,
which came from st. Paul.
But one gentleman, to my knowledge,
opened his heart and purse to exhibit his
philanthropy and love for these men who
were willing to leave their business,
homes and loved ones to volunteer and be
mustered in the service of the United
States to face bullets, disease and death.
| This gentleman is Hon. VIM. H. Eustis,
who presented to the Thirteenth regiment
his check for $780, and to the Twelfth and
Fourteenth regiments 500 each. Several
towns voted small amounts for the compa-
Eies of the Twelfth regiment and enter
tainments We're held in other villages
which were represented by companies in
that regiment, thus raising a modest
amount which was forW arded to the col
onel or regimental surgeon to be expend-
ed IN the care of the sick the aggregate
sum being less than 50 600
Permit me 10 turn backward TO the
period while we were scorching through
Georgia and describe the service of the
Twelfth Minnesota in the camp of mo-
hilfzatiCn, pestilence and death, the me-
morable and bloody field of Chickamauga
where the mean daily Temperature was
for the three months we were there JOG
degrees Fahrenheit under the hospital
tent and ITO degrees Fahrenheit in tie
field between the hours of 10 a. M. and
p. m, where men were drilled six hours
daily, except Sunday A region in which
heavy dew fell from o'clock p m. un-
til reveille. and humidity that caused
mold and fringe to form on shoes belts.
gun straps and tents and rust on guns
and side arms between midnight and
morning. The night air was both chilly
and damp, making it necessary to use
for cover two to three blankets and for
the men to spoon" to avoid being chilled
through.
During five weeks of the three months
daily showers were frequent, causing the
tentage to be constantly damp and the
ground saturated. BY July Is sickness
had increased to an alarming extent the
morning sick calls being responded to by
236 rs an average, while one hundred or
more men were sick in quarters, too weak
to walk to the regimental hospital TO
| visit the surgeon and respond to name
when read from the company sick book.
Confined in the division hospital the
number of sick of the Twelfth Minnesota
varied from IS to 14S at one time, the
| latter number were transferred from
| their quarters to the third division
! HOSPITAL at Camp Hamilton Kentucky
! the first week we were stationed there
! While al Chickamauga, Ca, the men
| were seriously crowded in the division
! hospital. ten patients being placed or
| cots under each tent. 14x16. distance
| of but six to eight inches betweee the
| patients siGewise ard their feet at night
! doVetailing, so close were the ends OF
! the cots to each other.
! The Minnesota soldiers who were not
! ordered to the front by the secretary of
! war TO assist the starving reconcentrados
/ in realizing Cuba Libre" nevertheless
! valiantly performed their duty, and while
nailed to their country,s cross until they
| were no longer needed, are the men who
| wish to extend to their comrades of 4he
| Thirteenth a cordial welcome
b The people of the great commonwealth
I of Minnesota should not forget there
| are others" who enlisted in our coun-
| trys defense and honor and were mus
| tered out in st. Paul and received 'hon-
| orable discharges" but no travel pay
! while those mustered out at New Ulm
| likewise received honorable dis
! charges" and travel pay averaging less
/ than SO per man. 1t may be apropos to
remark the Twelfth Minnesota passed
| through the Twin Cities. receiving nc
welcome Except hot coffee and sand
witches by committee of the CONNER
! cial club St Paul. during a stop of fiji
| teen minutes) No bells were rung, no
bands of music were to be heard. nor
| booming of cannon. No fund collected to
| pay for the care of the sick they brought
with them or to laviSh1y entertain the