Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-11
FIRST TROOPS IN
CAMP NEAR FRONT
Wisconsin Soldiers Join Big
Movement Toward Border.
NOT A MAN REFUSES TO GO
Commanders Are Proud of Record
Made When LIBERALIZATION of the
Guard Is Completed at
Camp Douglas.


Camp Douglas.
Z Madfson.-With Troop A and Bat
terry A, Wisconsin National Guard, al
ready pitching their tents on the plains
about Fort Sam Houston at San An
tonic, Tex, and all other units of the
Guard mustered into the federal Serv-
ice, the work of equipping the new
men in the infantry brigade and max
ing the regiments ready to follow the
artillery and cavalry units to the bOr-
der was pushed as rapidly as possible.
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 IN
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
officers Of the Wisconsin National
Guard are highly e,ated, 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 G.
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 50 men to the
border with him. On account of re-
fusal of medical officers to permit five
men to CO. 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 Is, under Capt.
August NJ. Krech. Surgeons refused to
10 60 south because of his health. He
will be kept here. Newberry returned
from Castine, Me-, from where he had
telegTaphed 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. I. 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 Dor
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.
1.-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."
officers and older men of the Guard
felt that it was far better that the men
remain here for this preparatory work
for the equipping, unifOrming and
drilling, than 10 be sent south and be
required TO do that work under a warm
sun.
Company r. 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
Lpedtke.
The Second infantry regiment prob
ably has more newly weds" among
its companies than any other in the
brigade. John Diem. a private in Com
pany A, returned TO his regiment just
in time 10 be mustered into the United
States service. lie was married in his
home, MarShfield. having been granted
a furlOugh. The merchants of Marsh
field gave him free everything that he
needed 10 begin housekeeping. MuSi-
clan Floyd Erath. Oshkosh. was mar
ried on the eve of the troops depar-
ture. as was Private Enos EdmondS,
Oshkosh. who took the sister of Sergt.
Tony Groth for his wife.
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