The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-15
NEW ARMOR|ES
PROMISE BY
GOV. MARSHALL
VISITS ENcAMPMENT AT FORT
BENJAMIN HARRISON AND
IS PLEASED WITH
soLDIERY.
State Executive Requests No Pomp
and Ceremonity Attended to
His Visit at Camp.

Inspired by reports of the splendid
work done by the Indiana national
guard while it has been at the Ma
newer Camp, Governor Marshall Fri
day, in paying a visit to the camp as
commander in chief of the states
military forces, declared he will rec
ommend to the next Legislature for
legislation for anything officers of the
national guard at a conference deem
necessary to promote the efficiency
OF the organization.
The Governor looked over the camp
called on Brig. Gen. Charles I.
Hodges, commanding the Maneuver
Camp, and Brig. Gen. William ].
Mckee, commanding the Indiana Bri-
gade, and visited the headquarters Of
each Indiana regiment. He express
ed himelf as proud of Indiana's SOL
diers. The Governor was aecompan-
led by Brig. Gen. George w. Mccoy.
adjutant general of Indiana, and
Frank f. Payne, of the Indiana Rail-
road Commission In camp he was
joined by Brig. Gen. Charles Garrard
quartermaster-general of the state.
AT the Governor request pomp
and ceremony was omitted.
81 do not know much about mill
tary affairs and | have very little
personal knowledge about the eff
cheney of the Indiana national
guard, said Governor. Marshall,
"but there is one thing ] do know,
and that is-the guard is a pretty
good asset for the state to have. The
state troops are badly In need of ar
mories. In my judgment the best
way to get armories is to pass law
making it compulsory on the part of
county commissioners to erect build
ings to be used as armories.
Il do not believe the state has
right TO ask men to give up their
time for drilling and maneuvering
without providing the proper kind of
a place in which to drill and suitable
quarters. I've been anxious to know
my appreciation of our national
guard. If the time should come when
| need a staff, it will be selected
from among the officers of the Indi-
aaa national guard
Mckee Wins Victory.
Aside form the visit of Governor
Marshall the big event Saturday at
the Maneuver Camp was the over
whelming victory won by Gen. Ne
KEGS division over division of
Gen. Somebody's army, which had
moved out from 0aklandon. Gen.
McKees division consisted of three
brigades of infantry, under Col. Har-
~ b. Smith, of indianapolis, Col.
Edwin p. Thayer, of Greenfield and
Col. Henry A. Greene. Two squad
rome of cavalry were used as well as
two companies of the signal corps
and a company off the hospital corps.
The five companies of engineers I'm
camp, under command of Maj. J. I.
McQuigg, of Cleveland. Ohio, were
used to outline the enemy. The en-
eineers strongly intrenched them
selves in rife pits on the hills west
of Fort Benjamin Harrison. The
cavalry under Gen. Mckee, in its first
bruch with the enemy, was driven i'm
and Gen. McKee's forces were under
occasional artillery FIRE. The enemy
was not more than 1000 strong.
Gen. Mckee assembled his division
ut the crossroads north Of Lawrence.
The First Brigade formed the right
wing of the army, the Second Bri-
gade the 'front.', and the Third the
left wing. Gen. Mckee established
headquarters in small woods about
three-quarters of a mile west of the
enemy's line of intrenchments.
During the advance Lieut.. Harvey
B. Stout Jr. of the Second Indiana
Infantry was thrown from his horse
as the animal fell into the ditch.
Stout was carried ON a litter from
the scene of his accident and was the
the first of the wounded brought to
the dressing station.
1t was only a few minutes after
the advance guard moved out of
Fall Creek bottoms, where its move
ments had been covered by the bluffs
in front. had crept slowly over the
hill, until il was sighted by Maj.
Gen. McQuieg's forces and subject
ed to veritable hail of fire. When
the Hoosier troops reached the road
running north and south, a quarter
of a mile west Of the enemy's line,
they sought shelter behind the en-
bankment on the east side Of the
road and poured In a heavy fire.
The supports were then ordered into
action.
Ammunition Provided.
Each battalion had been provided
with an ammunition wagon, the am
munition trains being kept in the
rear, protected by the hills.
The general engagement opened
about 1890 O'Clock and continued
until II O'Clock. The force under
Gen. Mckee numbered about $500
men.
The wounded, seventy-two in all,
were carried TO the five ambulances,
protected by the hills in the rear of
the firing lines. The ambulances
then hurried to the dressing station.
There the surgeons were as busy as
hoes dressing wounds.