Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — Will Stay in the South. [ARTICLE]

Will Stay in the South.

The order to muster out the 160th and 161st Indiana regiments at Savannah will not be changed. Representative Landis visited the War Department Tuesday in the effort to have the order modified so the two regiments might be sent to Indianapolis for muster out, but it was explained to him that if the men were to be sent so far north immediately after their landing in this country they would be likely to suffer id health and would be especially susceptible to attacks of pneumonia. By staying at the Southern camp for a short time they would become acclimated and would be better able

to stand the change to another climate, The government will commute the travel pay and rations of the men so that each will get from S2O to $25. Financially, therefore, the Indiana volunteers will be ahead by remaining in the Southern camp for muster out." The date now set for mustering out the 160th is April 25th. That for the 161st has not yet been announced, and it may be some days, possibly a week or tw.o later than the 25th.