Show VS new york sun soldiers also have methods of malting making life pleasant for officers who manifest a disposition to to put it on them as aa they phrase it of course all these methods involve their acting in a body as in the case in the navy individual acts of rebellion can only get the individual soldier into trouble and do not help the dissatisfied outfit the means a company troop or battery of regular army soldiers usually adopt in order to get rid of a disliked captain or lieutenant to is to simply go to pieces as a military body the men from the first sergeant down to the last buck private in the rear rank become the merest dogans of soldiers companies that have ben known to tg be practically perfect under good officers have frequently undergone this degeneration for no other purpose than to force the unpopular corn commander mander to take his leave or at least modify what the men regard as severities when this scheme has failed whole companies have been known to drink themselves into the guardhouse in a body when the commanding officer of the post observes one of his good allt outfits fits acting in this wise he generally finds some me means of rectifying rectify ing the grievances of the men A few years ago there was an extremely unpopular first arst lieuten lieutenant amt in command of an infantry company at ai fort logan col in the absence of the captain who was on sick leave this first lieutenant tried some of his pet pel notions orf on the subject of discipline on the company from the go off they work one morning after he had been in command of the company for nearly a month during which time the talk in the companas comp anys quarters had been growing more and more savage day by day he appeared at reveille before the barracks barrack sto to report his company present to the officer of the day when he clanked up in the darkness instead or 0 finding his company drawn up and ready to answer the roll call he saw only the grizzled old first lieutenant standing alone tW hats the meaning of this ln quiren the lieutenant where abere the devil are the men ac C company absent and unaccounted for said the first sergeant saluting there a single man of the company present at reveille except the first sergeant the men non commas cloned officers and all had slipped out of the quarters arid add gone over to denver during the night ight they were all gathered in drunk and riotous and they got ten days eath each in the guardhouse on the day they were released from the guardhouse an assistant sec ec detary orf wax war visited the post on an annual tour of inspection and C company campany which is not the correct initial made an exhibition of itself although nearly every man in the outfit had put in two the way C company turned out in a mixed up fore and aft fashion as it passed in review before the assistant secretary of war was nothing short of burlesque rather badly handled that coth company is it not inquired the assistant secretary of war of the commanding officer the next morning every man of C company was again absent from reveille and again the men had to be hauled back from denver riotous and drunk when they were sobered up in the guardhouse the comman commanding dlug officer drew them up and addressed them upon a repetition of th this said he rn give every one of you a gentral general coutt court martial that same night C company looted the canteen in a body and engaged in hi a riot until the bayonets of the guard put a stop to it the next day C wm oom pany had a new commander aud and the company immediately resumed its tag as one of the he beat in the infantry arm arin an infantry regiment that was sent to the pine ridge flare up am among 0 ng the sioux had so intense a hatred for the colonel in command that many of the men secretly expressed their determination to kill him from the rear to in case the regiment came to an engagement with the indians A number of the soldiers who had made this threat were found fo und out general court nw mait dialed add sentenced ced to to in the military prison on alcatraz Alca trez island but the infantry colonel against whom the threat was mude made he is jorwa now a brigadier general in command of a department became a changed man from the day he first became aware of the disposition of me his men before starting for the pine ridge pidge troubles prom a swearing storming extraordinarily severe officer he became one of the mildest mannered and most moat lenient of men the service and the sol soldiers illets could kick a foot ban ball through the parlor windows of his quartets quarters without his emitting a roar |