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POPULAR FEELING HIGH FOR WAR WITH SPAIN
From the History of 109th Field Artillery
(Continued from last week)
After the blowing up of the
Battleship Maine, Spain was asked
to abandon her sovereignty over the
island of Cuba. The greatest activ-
ity prevailed in National Guard cir-
cles and all departments were alert.
Mount Gretna had been determined
upon as the point for mobilization of
the troops and the quartermaster
and subsistence departments were
arranging and perfecting all details
as to transportation and subsistence.
The Federal Government called on
the State to supply ten regiments
of infantry and four batteries of
artillery and our regiment was or-
dered to arrive at Mt. Gretna on
April 28th. We left the armory at
7:15 p. m., April 27th, escorted by
the local Civil War Veterans and
the Fire Department.
A recruiting detail had been or-
dered to remain at home station
for the purpose of securing replace-
ments and increasing the strength
of the companies. Their first as-
signment was to police an area on
the Public Square which was to be
occupied by the regiment while lis-
tening to a farewell address by
Judge Stanley Woodward. So great
was the crush of people who had
assembled to see the departure of
the regiment and to hear the ad-
dress that the detail of ten men
was pressed back shoulder to shoul-
der at the foot of the steps leading
up to the First National Bank when
the regiment arrived. Patriotism
was at a high pitch and the Junior
Order of United American Mechan-
ics presented us with a flag. After
the departure of the regiment there
were many people who hurled taunts
and slurs at this recruiting detail
each day, thinking that they had
refused to volunteer for Federal
service.
The regiment arrived in camp
next morning, pitched tents in a
blinding snow storm and began
their training. On May 4th the
regiment was paraded for muster
and to give every man an oppor-
tunity to declare his intention with
regard to entering the United States
Army as a volunteer. Some were
rejected for physical reasons and a
number did not volunteer; their
places were filled by recruits ob-
tained by the detail at home station.
The muster was completed on May
11th when all companies had their
minimum strength of 77 men.
“Transportation rations and cof-
fee money’ were furnished by the
Depot Quartermaster and Chief
Commissary. at Philadelphia and
New York City respectively. There
was considerable delay in receipt
of these supplies due to inexperi-
ence of both departments in hand-
ling large movements of troops. It
was a complicated system, when
the division organization of the
Pennsylvania National Guard could
have handled the movement with
the same promptitude displayed on
many previous calls to duty. The
regiment as a result did not move
until the 17th. The first section
was composed of camp equipage and
horses and a few miles from Mount
Gretna a car containing officers’
baggage and twelve thousand rounds
of ammunition was found to be on
fire. Due to the cartridges explod-
ing railroad employees could not
Loses To British
The Duke of Aosta
Last reports, according to Lon-
don, placed the Duke of Aosta, Vice-
roy of Ethopia and commander of
Italian forces there, in the vicinity
of Dessye, which has just been cap-
tured by the British. Dessye was
one of the last strongholds left to
the Italian forces in Ethiopia.
It was not long before the ground
about the sinks became a mass of
putrefaction. Strenuous efforts were
put forth by the surgeons of the
regiment to have the sinks moved
across the road and as far as pos-
sible away from the kitchens and
tents, because they soon swarmed
with. maggots and were a constant
and fearful menace to health. Many
protests were made by regimental
officers but without avail until the
graves had been opened for men,
the victims of a mismanagement
that was cruel and criminal. Anoth-
er cause for sickness was the ardu-
ous duty required to be performed
in a hot climate by men who but
a few days before had pitched tents
in a snow storm.
The long tour of daily routine
began with first call at 4:30 a. m.,
and a schedule of drill and cere-
monies, together with large work-
ing parties continued through the
day, keeping all on the jump until
taps at 9:00 p. m, The results of
overwork and unsanitary conditions
were soon apparent. The men were
first assailed with acute diarrhea.
Two of our three surgeons were de-
tailed to duty in a division hospital
which was then organized and the
twelve men of our regimental hos-
pital corps were transferred to the
general hospital. Hundreds of sick
men were taken to the division hos-
pital daily where there was a short-
age of drugs and supplies to care
for them.
Early in June our surgeons diag-
nosed the first cases of typhoid fever
but their conclusions were disputed
by the Chief Surgeon. Typhoid fev-
er spread alarmingly in the regiment
and from ten to eighty cases a day
approach to extinguish it and the]
officers sustained a considerable loss | i
of clothing. We arrived at Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, on May 19th and
remained in the cars in the railroad
yards for twenty-six hours due to
congestion of the single track rail-
road line to Chickamauga. We
finally arrived at Camp Thomas,
Lytle Station, Chickamauga Park on
May 20th. The place assigned for
our camp, in the shade of second
growth oak trees to shelter us from
the hot Georgia sun, seemed ideal.
The natural beauty of the place was
refreshing and we little dreamed of
the sickness, disease and death that
pest hole had in store for us. Many
fine young man gave up their lives
due to the mismanagement cof of-
ficers who had splendid technical
ability but absolutely no practical
experience as to health and sanita-
tion. Our camp had only seventy-
five feet between the road and kitch-
en line of sinks, both latrine and
mess.
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careful attention.
No account too small to secure
| this order was issued we had a de-
were reported. The capacity of the
{ division hospital was overtaxed, then
the regimental dispensary became a
regimental hospital in fact through
the good people of Wilkes-Barre
and Wyoming Valley who most gen-
erously came to our aid with money
and supplies to alleviate the distress
and furnish hospital necessities
which the Government had failed
to provide.
In the early stages of sickness
among the men the canteen profits
were a source of great benefit as
they were used to purchase medi-
cines and ice for the sick. When
the number of typhoid cases had in-
creased to two hundred the regi-
mental commander and surgeon
again protested to the brigade com-
mander about the close proximity of
the sinks to the kitchens. We were
then directed to have the sinks at
the back of the regiment removed
te the far side of the road and the
ground thus cleared thoroughly
policed and put into good sanitary
condition. Within an hour after
tail of twelve men from each com-
pany digging new sinks in the drill
field one hundred yards from the
camp. When the pits were about
one foot deep the division com-
mander appeared upon the scene
and said; “Stop digging in this fine
drill field—by whose authority are
you doing this?” Surgeon W. G.
Weaver replied, “By my authority
as surgeon, responsible for the
health of the men of this regiment.
I command these men to proceed
with the digging.” We finished the
|job with Surgeon Weaver in com-
(mand.
However the damage had been
done and typhoid fever cases in-
creased in number. On August 4th
the regimental commander made a
personal appeal to the camp com-
|
mander and received permission to
[move our camp to the Smith White
field, an open field a mile distant.
| Details were sent to the field and
(the camp was laid out after a well-
[ens plan. Sinks were placed
some distance away from the kitch-
ens and were covered when not in
actual use. An inspector said our
colonel used good judgment in the
Jers
hours after a twelve-hour steady
, | rain, the streets were dry, the water
closets for each company inclosed
and well ventilated. * * * A person
standing near one of these sinks
would never detect any odor.” This
is only cited to prove that if Penn-
sylvania National Guard officers had
the opportunity of following their
own ideas the health and welfare of
the men would have been better
than under the regulations.
Before moving to the Smith White
field, under the second call of the
President for 75,000 men, the quota
assigned to Pennsylvania was first
applied to the recruiting of com-
panies of Infantry to 106 men and
the organization of a third battalion
for Infantry Regiments. This brought
the strength of our regiment to 1323
officers and men. In this recruit-
ment twenty men were enlisted as
musicians and detailed as members
of a band which soon attained a
high degree of proficiency. The
companies of the third battalion
were recruited as follows:. Company
G from Reading; Company K from
South Bethlehem; Company L from
; | Summit Hill and Company M from
: | Towanda.
The last company of the
third battalion arrived in camp on
July 16th.
Officers and non-commissioned of-
ficers of the new companies were in-
structed daily by experienced offi-
and men of the older com-
panies of the regiment. The men
and officers of the new battalion
were earnest and enthusiastic sol-
diers and it was not long before they
attained a commendable efficiency.
The entire regiment, officers and
men, were busily engaged from the
time of their arrival in camp at
Chickamauga in theoretical and
practical instruction, practice march-
es, outpost duty and battle man-
euvers. Through the efforts of Brig.
Gen. Wiley, a former National Guard
officer, rifle practice was inaugurat.
ed. He personally superintended the
target practice of the division.
Matches were shot between teams
composed of both officers and men
from each regiment in the division.
Our regiment led our division,
which had accomplished a great
deal in markmanship training.
Supply of the regiment was very
unsatisfactory. When the clothing
did arrive it was of heavy weight
suitable only for winter wear. Eight
weeks after our arrival at Camp
Thomas, at Sunday morning inspec-
tion, there were eight men present
in their bare feet and in old civilian
clothes although requisitions were
forwarded before leaving Mount
Gretna, duplicated a number of
times and supplemented by daily
requests of the regimental quarter-
master. About the time we moved
to the Smith White field we were
in need of additional canvas to
make room to care for the sick. A
requisition approved by the Corps
Commander for a mess tent, former-
ly belonging to Company E but now
stored in Chattanooga was presented
to the Chief Quartermaster only to
be refused on the ground that we
now had more hospital canvas than
we were entitled to. The regimental
commander, quartermaster and sur-
geon then called on the Chief
Quartermaster and made a personal
appeal for this private property of
the regiment and explained the ex-
treme urgency of the situation, only
to be refused. A telegram to
Wilkes-Barre for another tent to be
shipped by express provided the ul-
timate solution to the problem.
(To be continued next week.)
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PAGE SEVEN
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