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Title: The Fourteenth Ohio national guard--the Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Creager, Charles E., 1873- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Ohio infantry. 4th regt., 1898-1899. (from old catalog) Ohio infantry. 14th regt., 1877- (from old catalog) Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories United States
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, The London printing and publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ruggled so nobly but so use-lessly to keep their heads up and their feet on thedecks. An interesting as well as profitable incident ofthe voyage on the St. Paul was the religious serviceconducted by Chaplain Schindel on Sunday, July31. The service was not as largely attended as thoseat Camp Thomas, perhaps, one reason being that therewas not room to accommodate all the regiment and theother being that it was at that time a physical im-possibility for the men to stand or even sit in oneplace long enough to listen to all of an ordinary re-ligious discourse. Chaplain Schindel himself sufferedsome of the agonies of coming sea sickness, and had henot reached his lastly at the time he did, the sermonwould probably have been continued at another date. As had been done at Camp Thomas, the musicfor the service was furnished by the regimental band.Captain Sigsbee had suggested the text: Revelationxxi, 1, There shall be no more sea. A touchingreference was made to the life of Captain Sigsbee and
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THE FOURTH 0. V. I. 129 the other seamen on board the St. Paul, and when thechaplain drew out the thought in his discourse thatthe sea represented shattered hopes, unfulfilled plans,etc., the desctruction of the battleship Maine wasmade an illustration that moistened every eye withinthe soimd of the chaplains voice. One of thethoughts brought out in the sermon was sup-gested bythe regimental clerk, Will Markeson. The sight ofthe waves as they rolled listlessly about, ever andanon striking each other and wasting their forces in anendless but fruitless struggle, thus illustrating the lossof many of the forces which are allowed to waste in thelife of the average man, had suggested to the clerka valuable lesson, and the chaplain decided that hishearers should profit by it. The sermon was an in-teresting and a valuable one, and will remain a lastingimpression on the minds of those who heard it. This service is also interesting from the fact thatit was the only one conducted by troops trans

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