Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1899 — More Luck for the 161st. [ARTICLE]

More Luck for the 161st.

The 161st Indiana regiment will be mustered out at Savannah, on Sunday April 30th. Its popular commander, Col. Durbin, has been working hard to secure a pleasant closing experience for the regiment, and has succeeded in having it arranged. Immediately after the muster out, the regiment will take Pullman trains to Washington, arriving there Monday May Ist, early in the morning, and the day will be reviewed by the president, and also have an opportunity to see the wonders and beauties of our national capital. On leaving Washington four companies B. D. E. and I. will go to Louisville and from there be distributed to their home. The other companies will be distributed from Cincinnati. The Monticello people are expecting Company I. will reach that place in a? body, and are preparing to give them a grand reception. If practicable, measures ought to be taken to ‘have the some 15 or 16 surviving members from Jasper county, in this company, come to Rensselaer in a body, and give them a reception and banquet.