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From: "DonLinda" <>
Subject: Daily Adv. News Apr 24-1861
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:48:04 -0400

The Daily Advocate
Batavia NY
April 24-1861
transcribed and submitted by L.Schmidt

Organized!
Capt Root's Company of Volunteers have been inspected, and this morning
organized by the choice of A.I. Root, Captain; Wm. B. Town, First
Lieutenant; Lucius Smith, 2d Lieutenant.
The Company will leave here for their Regiment at Syracuse, Friday
morning, at 9:10.
*
Counsel to Volunteers- How to Prepare for the Campaign.
The following hints to our volunteers communicated by "an old soldier"
thro' the columns of the N.Y. 'Evening Post,' are timely and should be
heeded: -
1. Remember that in a campaign more men die from sickness than by the
bullet.
2. Line your blanket with one thickness of brown drilling. This adds but
four ounces in weight and double the warmth.
3. Buy a small India rubber blanket (only $1 50) to lay on the ground or to
throw over your shoulders when on guard duty during a rain storm. Most of
the eastern troops are provided with these.-Straw to lie on is not always to
be had.
4. The best military hat in use is the light colored soft felt; the crown
being sufficiently high to allow space for __ over the brain. You can
fasten it up as a continental in fair weather, or turn it down when it is
wet or very sunny.
5. Let your beard grown, so as to protect the throat and lungs.
6. Keep your entire person clean: this prevents fevers and bowel complaints
in warm climates. Wash your body each day if possible. avoid strong coffee
and oily meat. General Scott said that the too frequent use of these
(together with neglect in keeping the skin clean) cost many a soldier his
life in Mexico.
7. A sudden check of perspiration by chills or night air often causes fever
and death. When thus exposed do not forget your blanket.
*
Rendezvous for Volunteers
A Recruiting Office for Volunteers has been opened in Batavia, in the Odd
Fellows' Hall, Ganson Block. Col. Wm L. Cowan, of Darien, an experienced
Military Officer, will be in attendance at all times to enroll those who
wish to serve their country as Volunteers. Col Cowan has volunteered and
will lead the Company.
April 24th, 1861. Wm. Tyrrell.
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