The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-14
MOVING TOWARDS CUBA
SECOND BATTALION OF THE 16OTH
INDIANA UNDER Way.
Hospital Corps Under Orders to Leave
Columbus, Ga, To-Day First
Battalion at Matanzas.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

CAMP CONRAD, Columbus, Ga, Tan.
10, with the ne-hundred-and-sixtiet Indi-
ana Regiment.-The first battalion of this
regiment is now at Matanzas, Cuba and the
second battalion will soon be en- route, or
ders having been received yesterday to leave
camp for Charleston, S. c., as soon as pos
sible The second battalion is commanded
by Major J. ]. Backman, of Aurora who is
a firm disciplinarian and a most genial and
pleasant gentleman. His family is here,
but will return home when the major leaves,
which may be late tonight. The Indiana
and Kentucky Hospital Corps have been
ordered to move tomorrow.
Regimental Quartermaster Ransom Allen,
who went with the first battalion to
Charleston, returned Tuesday, having seen
the boys on board the Saratoga and the
start made for Cuba. He reported all in
fine condition and bountifully provisioned
for the trip. They expected to reach Ma
tanzas Tuesday afternoon.
This regiment is favored with an excep-
tionally good commissary sergeant, S. E.
Hitchcock of Button. He is a business
man, formerly a student in the law office
of Judge ]. J. Todd, and looks carefully and
intelligently after all the details of his
office He has secured for the regiment a
bakery and two competent bakers, who
turn out as fine a quality of bread as any
bakery in Indianapolis, and this outfit will
be transferred to Cuba. There will be no
bareback used by the One-hundred-and-
sixtieth.
Colonel Gunder is still in command of the
The wife of Captain F. D. Ballou, Com
pany A, left here Thursday for her home
in Marion.
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visit friends in Cincinnati.
Charles Ellsworth and William Hesher. of
Company f, are in the brigade hospital.
Anthony Read of Company l. was taken
to the brigade hospital Wednesday with a
sprained knee, caused by an effort to con-
troll team of refractory mules. He is a
good soldier and it is hoped will be well in
time to go With the third battalion. Charles
Zauss and Levi Long, of the same COM
pany, were detailed for special work and
went with the first battalion.
Captain Bender's wife and daughter, Mrs.
H. Tucker, who have been visiting in camp.
left for their home in Logansport yester-
day.
Lieutenant Leroy Fitch. of Company NJ, is
lmping about camp with a sprained ankle.
Major Kyle is administering the best lfni-
ment known to surgery, with the hope of
reducing the swollen member to its normal
Mrs. Spencer, wife of Lieutenant Herbert
B. Spencer, of Company K, left yesterday
for her home in Huntington.
Mrs. Collins wife of First Lieutenant
John B. Collins, of Company l., will remain
in. the South until such time as she can
join her husband in Cuba.
The wife of Lieutenant George G. Saucer
will return TO her home in Anderson.
The observance of the week of prayer by
the chaplains of the three regiments here
resulted in the determination of about fifty
soldiers to lead a Christian life. 1t is deeply
regretted that the tent donated by friends
of the regiment is entirely worthless, and
there is no place for public services or
other uses to which it was constantly put.
A tent costing 500 would be of service in
Cuba.
The regiment misses DIR. Eugene Buehler,
of Indianapolis assistant regimental sur
geon who was chosen because of his special
fitness. having been with the command from
its organization, to superintend the location
of the hospital in Cuba. He is an excellent,
painstaking physician
Christian Myres of Columbia City, who
has been reported sick, is no better and is
still confined to his bed.
Disagreeable weather prevails. 1t has
rained for three days and the air is chilly.