History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . beginnings of skirmish drill, and on the 6ththe regiment was once more in line for a division review onthe parade ground by the park at 5 p. m. On the morning of the 9th, Colonel Durbin was, byGeneral Order No. 15, made commander of the FirstBrigade, in which capacity he served until October 14. This same day saw the departure of the Third Nebras-ka. Colonel Bryan had gone some time before on a sickleave and his regiment was now going to Pablo Beach.The regiment did not move as a whole and as the menpassed throug
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History of the One hundred and sixty-first regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry . beginnings of skirmish drill, and on the 6ththe regiment was once more in line for a division review onthe parade ground by the park at 5 p. m. On the morning of the 9th, Colonel Durbin was, byGeneral Order No. 15, made commander of the FirstBrigade, in which capacity he served until October 14. This same day saw the departure of the Third Nebras-ka. Colonel Bryan had gone some time before on a sickleave and his regiment was now going to Pablo Beach.The regiment did not move as a whole and as the menpassed through our camp on the way to the train a portionof the band before the colonels tent played them a partingmarch as they moved through in a drenching rain, and thenext day found the One Hundred and Sixty-first with asupply of sentry boxes that had been put together by Ne-braska labor. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIRST INDIANA. 71 On the 12th about fifty men were sent to the Recu-perative Station at Pablo Beach. Lucky men! every onebut one got a furlough home within fifteen days, and that. Number Nine—Relief. one preferred to grin and bear it out in the regiment, andaccordingly returned. The same morning saw the depart-ure of the Second Mississippi Regiment, which left a brigadeof one regiment only in the camp. It was the privilege ofthe One Hundred and Sixty-first to clean up the campingsite of the departing regiment, and after gathering out anylumber that could be advantageously used all else wasburned, the city authorities took up the water pipes andthe ground was left clean but forsaken. The Third Ne-braska sent a detail back from Pablo to do this work onthe ground they left, but of all camps that needed cleaningthe one left by the First South Carolina needed it most; the 72 HISTORY OF THE condition of men and camp on the day of departure was afit matter of report to General Barclay by Major Megrew, field officer of the day; that some had more sickness thanthe One Hundred and Sixty-fi