. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. the size of the Wagner sleepers, they were too large topass through the great tunnel at Harpers Ferry. We arrived at Dunn Loring about nine thirtv. May nineteenth, and lay in the cars all night, disem-barked in the morning and remained there until
. History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901. the size of the Wagner sleepers, they were too large topass through the great tunnel at Harpers Ferry. We arrived at Dunn Loring about nine thirtv. May nineteenth, and lay in the cars all night, disem-barked in the morning and remained there until twooclock in the afternoon awaiting the arrival of the re-mainder of the regiment. Captain Lawrie visited CampAlger in the morning, for the purpose of selecting alocation for our regiment to establish a permanentcamping ground. 148 History of Companies I and E. The delayed sections of our train bearing thesecond and third battalions arrived shortly after noon andwe formed and marched out to camp, a distance ofabout three miles; it was very hot and the roads weredustv. A number of the boys fell out along the line ofmarch, and some of them were taken to the hospitalwhere they remained several days. We immediately set to work getting our camp out-fits together and putting up tents and had bareley com-pleted the task when it began to MAJOR WM. T CHANNON, Sixth Infantry. Cam I ;;kk. I4y CHAPTER IX. Canij) Russell A. Algov was located cii^Hit milessouth and west of Washington. D. C. The eauip groundscontained al)out six hundred acres, and bordered on alarg? tract of tiinl)cr laud. A small stream coursedthrough the edge of the woods and was- theboundary line of the caui[) grounds. Many stirring in-cidejits occurred in and about this neighborhood duringthe civil war. and the old residents entertained us by re-lating tales of those eventful days. When we arrived in camp we found little or nopreparations had been made to receive us. although sev-eral days had ela
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