Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — DAYS OF ’61 RECALLED. [ARTICLE]

DAYS OF ’61 RECALLED.

Hearty Reception Given Twenty-fifth on Its Way to Chattanooga. If any doubt existed regarding the patriotism and warlike feeling of the residents of Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee, along the line of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, it would have been swept away by the reception given the Twenty-fifth Infantry as it passed along toward the front. In every town, on every street crossing and on the depot platforms men waved their arms in frantic token of approval, and in most instances seconded their gestures by yells. In the larger towns where the train stopped for a few moments the crowd piltsJ so closely in upon the cars that it was impossible for the soldiers to leave the train at all. “I was among those who answered the first call in 1801,” said Colonel Burt at Nashville, “and these scenes along the way are very similar to those that greeted us as we went to the front thirty-seven years ago.” The battleship Oregon is on her long voyage from San Francisco to Hampton Roads around Cape Horn, a total distance of 14,000 miles, which she is expected to complete in sixty-three days, au average speed of 222 miles a day.