Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-09
10CAkP At WATERLOO ] !
Forty.ninth Iowa Regimental En-.
campment Likely to Be Held
at That Place.
Thought to Be the Most Favorable
Place For the Camp This
Year.
The Encampment Expected to Be
Largely a Reunion Of Spanish
War Veterans.

Largely a Reunion Of Spanish
War Veterans.
Waterloo, June s-Information has
been received in Waterloo to the effect
that Adjt. Gen. Byers will probably in
"a few days announce the time and
place for the holding of the annual en-
scampments of the National Guard of
Iowa The information brings the
news also that there is little doubt but
Waterloo will be selected as the place
for the holding Of the encarnpment of L
the reorganized Forty-ninth Iowa.
The adjutant general. While he has
not positively announced his decision
in the matter. is known to look Win I
favor upon this city as the most avail I
able of any in the territory in which,
companies of the Forty-ninth are To-
lscated. It's most centrally located ana t
l.most available for all the requirements
l5of the encampment. Cedar Rapids is |
1.-the other city8in the strict which mas
| been considered and that city has
/ placed an invitation for the soldiers TO
meet there.
i The last encanpment Of the regiment
4 was held in this city in 1897, the yeal
before the breaking out Of the Spanish
American war. 1t was pronounced by
4 the officers and men alike as the most
satisfactory encampment the regiment
ever held. The tents We're pitched on
1.-THE beautiful plat of ground belonging
a to the Cedar River Park Association,
and the grounds for drill and maneuN-
ers of the soldiers were ample ant
4 most suitable Besides this, the regi-
4 ment had the use of the amphitheater
4 at the park, the accommodation of this
l5street cars which ran directly past the
A grounds, and other conveniences which
lit would be hard to find elsewhere.
A At the close of the encampment it
seemed to be the unanimous opinion of
men and officers alike that the 1895
Igathering of the regiment should be.
held here. But as the months went on
during the early winter there came4eNi-3
I dcnces of grave disagreement with
. Spain over that monarchy's treatment
ef Cuba, the Maine was destroyed in.
Il Havana harbor, carrying hundreds of
brave American sailors to their death,
\ 1.-The war spirit of the country was arous-.
ed and the cry for cuba Libre and ven-
a geance for the murdered Americans
s led to the opening of hostilities betwee1i
s. the two countries and declaration of
war. In May, 1898, the Iowa troops
lwere started on their trip to the south
Ito be in position to be thrown into the
a theater of war and when$the time for
I the annual encampment came around it
found ali of Iowa's young patriots who
We're members of the four regiments
either in camp in the south or on Cuban
soil. Instead of the play at war which
Z they would have enjoyed on the banks
. lof the beautiful Cedar here. they We're
7 experiencing its stern realities.
They served until the fall of Santi-
7 ago and the signing of the peace proto-
col, and then they came home. not as
green Volunteers who had never seen
any Of the actualities of war, but as
veterans who had passed thru cam
q paign. altlo none of them participated
? in actual engagements
"a Last year there was practically nc
s national guard in the state, and the reg
s kiments We're not reorganized until late
: in the fall and during the past winter
q Now they are all fully equipped once
e more and most of them have their full
= quota of men and are again in the sar-
e vice of Iowa. Arrangements are being
J. made for the encampment of each of thu
e four regiments.
y 1t is safe to say that the encampmen
: of the Forty-ninth Will bear many new
I features for the boys. l viii not only
u be Capitalization of the members Of
5, the regiment for the drilling and prac
y tice of tactics, but Will be TO a larg,
II extent a reunion, the first reunion of TIL,
u veterans Of the late war. Many new
81 faces will be seen in the camp, faces, o
n men who have enlisted in the reorgani
cation, but among them. and counting
for a majority of the whole, will be til
faces of the men VINO camped togethe
In the south and in Cuba, and who will
T. haze stories of the camp to8tell. friend
u ships to renew. and will demonstrat
In that the service given their country ha
At been the meanssof binding them close
la together in bonds of good comradesnlr
is Waterloo Will Welcome the soldiers
ID they decide to come here for their en-
to campment ard will see that they al
To- better taken care of than ever before.
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