Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-07-07
ADVANCE GUARD OF
/ BADGERS AT FRONT
Troop A and Battery A First to
Reach Camp at Fort
Sam Houston.
GUARD HAS NO "SLACKERS'
Not Single Man Among All the Wis
consin Soldiers Refuses to Be
Mustered Into the Federal
Service.


Madison.-The advance guard of
Wisconsin troops, now part of the
United States army, is now in camp at
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex,
a short distance from the border, to.
which all Wisconsin troops are now be-
ing rushed with all possible speed.
With Troop A and Battery A gone to
the front, the energies of all officers,
both of the National Guard and the
regular army stationed at Camp Doug
las were directed toward getting all
the units Of the infantry brigade to
the concentration camp at Fort Sam
Houston.
The liberalization of the Guard was
completed when the machine gun COM
panies of the First and Third regi-
ments and the headquarters company
Of the First regiment were sworn in.
Altogether 40 separate units were
mustered in, and not one man in all
these units refused to take the new
oath required of all the men when they
entered the federal service.
The fact that every enlisted man
brought to the military reservation I'M
der the presidents orders of mObiliZa-
ton was mustered into the service of
the United States, without one object
ing. is a record over which men and
Guard are highly elated, especially in
view of contrary conditions in some
other National Guards.
Given Big Ovation.
When Troop A. Milwaukee, Carl
Penner captain, and Battery A, First
field artillery, Milwaukee, Philip c.,
Westfahl, captain, left the reservation
they were given the biggest ovation
of any organization of troops that has
left this reservation in % years.
Captain Penner took 95 men to the
border with him. On account of re-
fusal of medical officers to permit five
men to go, they remained at Camp
Douglas Gen. Orlando Holway was
anxious to utilize them to aid in break
ing in the new troopers who are form
ing the quota of Troop B, under Capt.
August M. Krech. Surgeons refused to
permit Roger Newberry of the troop
to go south because of his health. He
will be kept here. Newberry returned
from Castine Me-, from where he had
telegraphed that he would report for
duty long before Captain Penner had
made an effort to reach him to order
him to report
The members of Troop A and Bat
terry A were also given a rousing send
off at Milwaukee and reports from the
troops as they were rushed southwark
showed that they were given an ova-
ton all along the line.
Because of the change of climate
and the fact that the men were getting
but little exercise, DR.. G. !. Hogue of
the medical corps ordered that the
men be limited to only two meals
day, one late in the morning and the
other at the regular supper hour
The men were watched closely, and
everything done to keep them in the
best of health.
Time Not Wasted.
While the men at Camp Douglas
were impatient to be away for the bor-
der, the commanders did not look upon
the delay as an unmixed evil. They
believed that it provided an opportu-
nifty for getting the men well equipped
and prepared for active service.
'"The troops which have gone south
undoubtedly are not entirely uni
formed, at least not if they have any
number of recruits" said General Hol-
way. "They must still be examined by
medical officers. their recruits must be
drilled in infantry work, they must
learn the manual of arms, shooting,
and must be given the anti-typhoid in
oculation.'
Nine Sets of Brothers.
Company B, First infantry, Fort At
kinson, has nine sets of brothers en-
listed and serving with the organiza
ton. One family has three sons in
this company. They are Lieut.. D. D.
Hills, Corp. Charles Hills and Cook
Clifford Hills.
Among the other sets of brothers
are Privates Athur and William Wod-
ell, Artificer William Dale and Private
Curtis Dale, Privates William and
Harry L. Smith, Corps. Harry and Ed
ward Mueller, Privates Herbert and
Bernard Allen, Capt. Arthur Langhoff
and Corp. Rudolph Langhoff, Privates
Alvin and Harvey Fink, First Sergt
Walter Luedtke and Private Fred
Luedtke.
The Second infantry regiment prob
ably has more newly weds' among
its companies than any other in the
brigade. John Diem, private in Com
pany A, returned to his regiment just
in time to be mustered into the United
States service. He was married in his
home Marshfeld having been granted
q furlough. The merchants of Marsh
field gave him free everything that he
needed to begin housekeeping. Musi-
clan Floyd Erath, Oshkosh. was mar
ried on the eve of the troops depar-