Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-06
IOWA IN THE ARMY.
State Well Represented In Regular
and New YolunIeer ReRiments.

State Well Represented In Regular
and New Volunteer Regiments.
Des Moines, Sept. 6.-"Iowa is going
to be pretty well represented in the new
army" said Adj. Gen. Byers to re-
porter for the Register Tuesday. mo,
ceived commissions in this state recent
ly, but the enlistments for the army are
large. The regular and volunteer forces
have been recruited alike, but the lat
ter has got the largest number, OF
course.
In the regular army the First caval-
ry is already composed largely Of Iowa
men. Among the Des Moines men in it
is Lieut.. Charles Saltzman who was in
Cuba with the regiment, and recently L.
A. 1. Chapman, of the Register editor
ial force, has been given commission
in that regiment. 1t is quartered in the
west.
!" do not know whether Colonel Will
Dows. of the Forty-ninth Iowa, is go
ing to accept the offer made him by the
government to take a majors place in
the new volunteer army, but / do not
believe he will do it. He was the only
Iowa man appointed to a majors COM
mission in the new army, although
Governor Tanner has charged Secretary
Root, of the war department., with Civ
ing Iowa seven majors. Col. Hum
phrey, of the Fifty-second Iowa in the
Spanish war, was given a captains
commission. He is in the east and do
not know whether he will take it or not.
Among the other Iowans who have
commissions are the following in the
new volunteer service: Thirty
regiment Brandt, of Des Moines; Eek
ers, of Ottumwa; Heaton, of Fairfield;
McMannus, of Davenport, and two 9TH
ers whose names can not recall. In
the Thirtyfourth there is Wyman. of
Ottumwa, and Goedeke, of Burlingt ton;
in the Thirty-ninth. Long, of Burling
ton, and Parks, of Dallas county; in the
Thirty eighth, Nichols, of Waukon; in
the Fortieth Franz, of Upton; in the
signal corps, Lyman, of Des Moines.
r.. a. Nichols, of Waukon, who was
a lieutenant in the Forty ninth and gets
a captains commission in the Thirty
eighth, was here Saturday and said that
he had accepted the commission. He
will make good officer. His regiment
will rendezvous at st. Louis, Jefferson
barracks. 1t will be taken to Manila
probably tho latter part of the month.
Mr.. Nichols called my attention to an
interesting observation he had made
While in Cuba, when here. He said that
so far as his notice went it was not the
men who drank that Were attacked by
disease, necessarily. He said that of his
regiment he believed majority of those
who died We're not drinkers. This.
however, is proba bly, accounted for by
the fact that the on-drinkers We're
largely in the majority in the Forty
ninth, as they We're in all the Iowa regi
ments. MIR Nichols stated that the
drinkers, when attacked, however, are
the ones who most rapidly succumb to
disease. Most soldiers agree that clean
illness and abstinence from drink are
the surest preventves of disease and
fatal results of disease in the army.
In this connection l want to call
your attention to the fact that the
death rate Of the soldiers in the Philip
pines is very small. see that Sergt.
Harry Brookover, of the First Nebras-
ka. who lives here and returned Satur-
day, refers to the same thing in an in
terview he has given out. Look at the
F1fty-1lrst 1T loSt many men IN san
Francisco, but has not lost great
many in the Philippines. While many
are i'll all the time with minor disor-
ders there are few fatal cases.
Capt. Nichols has been ordered to
Dubuque to recruit a part of his COM
pany for the Thirty-eighth and will
spend ten days at it. Most of the cap
tains are being given these orders. 1t
means that almost every volunteer reg
iment in the new army will be repre-
sented by Iowans. There are $50 men in
the Thirty second alone from Iowa.
Iowa has its full quota in the army.
That. by the way, was significant re-
ply made by Secretary Root recently on
application for an additional commits
sion from an Iowa man
Sergt. Brookover said to reporter
II am confident that the
Fifty-hrst Iowa has been relieved at
San Fernando by this time and is now
either in Manila or on its way there
ready for embarkation for home. Our
regiment left on July q and got to Ne
braska on Sept. L.
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