Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1918 — INDIANA SOLDIERS REACH POTOMAC PORT [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SOLDIERS REACH POTOMAC PORT

A Potomac Port, Sept 19.—-A large number of troops from a unit composed of former national guardsmen from Indiana and two other states were here yesterday. They stopped only for a few minutes passing through from a eamp in the south where they had been stationed for a year, to a certain port from which they will go to a place known as “Somewhere in .” The soldiers were in excellent spirits and after a year spent in the dust and heat of thedr former camp were tickled pink to get back to northern country. They were also tickled at the prospect of getting into active service after a year spent in making them the most perfect soldiers possible. The unit- which passed through this port was in a number of trains of as many as twenty coaches each, traffic on the railroad over which they passed having been virtually suspended as .they sped northward. The men were 'equipped in a different fashion from the ordinary equipment of troops in this country and looked very much like the troops whose photographs are seen in the daily war pictures. A certain Indiana senator, whose initials are H. S. N., happened to know that the troops were passing through this point, and, accompanied by a reporter, went to the station to greet the men. He found them all in excellent spirits and spoiling for a fight. When he made his identity known, the men crowded around him to shake hands while he wished them well.