Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Indiana Soldiers in Camp. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Soldiers in Camp.

Some 5500 Indiana soldiers are now in camp at the state fair grounds at Indianapolis. Most of them belong to the National Guard, of the state. They are all, militiamen and volunteers, being rapidly and rigidly examined, and a very large proportion are being rejected as physicially unfitted for the ser-

vice. As fast as one man is rejected, a hundred stand ready to take his place. The boys gathered at Indianapolis so fast after the call was issued, that they found matters badly prepared to receive them. Tljey have oomfortable quarters at the fair grounds, but for the first day or so rations were slow in coming and scant in quantity. There was also a great lack of bedding and blankets, and the boys got a taste of some of the privations of war at the very outset.