Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — Latest About The Indiana Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Latest About The Indiana Soldiers.

It is now admitted that none of the Indiana soldiers will receive their equipments in time to start for the front before Sunday at the earliest and possibly not then. The First regiment, in which are some Rensselaer boys, has been made happy after all. An order for another Indiana regiment to move was received Wednesday and the Governor has designated this regiment as the one. They will go by way of Mobile. Alabama. The Second and Third regiments, as before stated, will go by way of New* Orleans. The Fourth, by Washington. This regiment will be the last to start. The Indiana regiments are renumbered as fast as mustered in. The 3rd becomes the 157th., the 156th being the last regiment of the civil war. The present second becomes the 158th., and the first will probably be the 159th Major Barrett, of Indianapolis, has been made colonel of the third, to succeed Col. Pennington who broke his leg