The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-11-12

| uleHudOle eT1OTG succeeded In about the
ratio That the whole To-day move
ment d1d-half or so. The institutions
at Madison, Janesville, Beloit, Apple
ton, Milton and Baraboo furnished
men for A 3 g D and E companies of
the Fortieth. There were 81 students
from Lawrence university and 20 from
Baraboo institute in Co. E. The cap
tain, John H Hauser, locked up his
room at Lawrence that he might go
captaining his fellow students 100
DAYS. He was an eccentric
kind of fatty student. The
shreVdest physiognomist might quiz
his phiz a week and then know less of
him then when he began. He always
reminded us of the suffering man who
told the land lady who was blowing in
to the nozzle Of the stuffed up coffee
pot: Mammalian, that thing and L
are s-si-sim 'larly f-ficted-d-d-darn
poor deliveryW But better, braver
or manlier officer and charitable gentle
man couldn't be found in hundred
days. When aff1iction smote his arm
the Kind attentiveness of every boy in
his company bespoke the estimation
in Which he was held all who knew
him. Lieutenant Hobart was the best
schoolmaster officer of any In the line.
The only fault anybody found with
him was that he had red hair like the
Col. He never would have cared a
fig about it if ye Rays peniwig hadn't
been red, too. But, without joking he
was an upright, efficient and justly
popular officer. AS long as Baraboo
Institute retains his services it will be
apt to increase its own thrift and
benefit humanity. Besides Lieut.. Ed
ward F. Hobart there were from Bara
boo: G FL. Bacon, A. M. Barber
Chester w. Butterfeld, Frederick
Crouch, Frank I'll. Crossman, Thomas
Elbridge, Horatio H. FIynt, Derric
Grotophorst, James Harrison, Henry
w. kellogg, E. l.. Norton, Ed. A.
Paddock, r. R. Remington, Andrew
J. Turner, Edwin Q. Warner, Daniel
Worth and Marshal Woodford.
The regiment was not full. Eight
full companies were in-where the other
two were coming from was involved in
darkness. At last the Colonel said,
"subtraction is long way of perform
ing many divisions; let us make squad
[, and We'll be John Bull and drop
the H." And history must in afte
years record, and so these Annals must
now, that Fl company of the 10th did
ever remain in state of non-entity,
and its muster roll was myth. And
all the most disreputable and intemper-
ate, and sundry aged folks, and pigmy
boys, and squatty foreigner or two,
with about four intelligent chaps,
were culled from the eight regular COM
pan1es, corralled in barrack, differed
by white men, and dubbed squad I.
We belonged squad 1 ourself-private
chattel of its officers for 100 days unless
sooner shot. We named it "squadi."
At Camp Randall, where $4,000 men
had been rendezvoused, the 100 day
men found the same hustle and confus-
ion that characterize such organiza-
tlons: camp rumors, squad drill, love
letters,songs of war and of home, anxi-
Gus parents, fearful wives, mothers and
sisters, huckster women, commissary
carts, bottles full of red eye and empti-
ness alternately land sighs and longings
to get gone to Dixie after the Johnnie
rebs were the principal entertain
ments Of the 10th for about a month.
A few officers and about forty men In
he ranks had seen service and knew
that the unsophisticated fellows who
groaned for Dixie would groan worse
when they got there. The last cere-
mony of all, ere our departure, was the
presentation of the colors by the Gov
ernor, who did it with "that same old
speech" slightly varied to befit the
occasion. Beside him was Gen. Luci-
Gus Fairchild with his one arm. God
bless the hero, he was our Colonel in
Virginia with two as good ones as ever
did service; and as we marched past
him we naturally bethought of the old
End, every member of which fairly
worshipped him for his bravery in fight
and his humanity in camp.
The day for moving was fixed, and
the order for Wisconsin 100 day men
, to report for duty at Memphis, Tenn,
promulgated. All brightly shone the
sun, the officers new steel scabbards
and the countenances of the troops, on
the morning of Tuesday, June IA,
1864, as the train with the 10th moved
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