Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — HARD WORDS FOR THE THIRD. [ARTICLE]

HARD WORDS FOR THE THIRD.

General Grant Criticises an Illinois Regiment. Word eotnes from Porto Rieo that Chaplain D. D. Odell of the Third Illinois infantry and Gen. Grant, brigade commander, have had trouble, and the first named has been ordered away from the regimental and brigade hospitals. The chaplain, it is alleged, wrote home urging that everything possible be done to get the regiment back to this country, on account of the illness and disease which threatened to wipe it out of existence. He also wrote President McKinley. Gen. Grant told the chaplain that the Third Illinois was the worst body of soldiers he had ever seen, freon colonel down, and he ordered the chaplain to keep away from all the hospitals indefinitely.