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Joseph Elison, corporal of Company E, Tenth Infantry : 

 enlisted at Fort Wayne, Mich. ; born in Germany. 



Charles B. Henry, private of Company E, Fifth Cavalry ; 

 enlisted at Cincinnati ; horn at Hanover, Germany. 



Maurice Council, private of Company B, Third Cavalry; 

 enlisted at Camp-on-Goose-Creek, Wyoming: born at Kerry, 

 Ireland. 



Jacob Bender, private of Company F, Ninth Infantry ; enlisted 

 at Omaha Barracks, Neb. ; born in Friedberg, Germany. 



Wm. Whistler, private of Company F, Ninth Infantry; 

 enlisted at Omaha Barracks, Neb. ; born in Carroll County, 

 Ind. ; father's address Monon, Indiana. 



Henry Biederbick, private Company G, Seventeenth Infantry ; 

 enlisted at Cincinnati, O. ; born at Waldeck, Germany. 



Julius Fredericks, private of Company I, Second Cavalry ; 

 enlisted at Cleveland, O. ; unmarried ; born at Dayton, O. 



Wrn..A. Ellis, private of Company C, Second Cavalry; 

 enlisted at New York City ; born at Seneca Falls, N. Y. 



R. R. Schneider, private of Company A, First Artillery : 

 enlisted at Fort Columbus, New York harbor ; born at Chem- 

 nitz, Germany. 



Francis Long, sergeant of Company F, Ninth Infantry ; en- 

 listed at Omaha Barracks, Neb. ; born in Wurternbourg, Germany. 



THE DEPARTURE. 



LIEUTENANT GREELY sailed from St. Johns, N. F., July 7, 

 1881, on the steamer Proteus, and reached Disco Island, at God- 

 haven, two weeks later. Here he secured two Esquimaux inter- 

 preters, fourteen dogs, two sledges, and a large quantity of pro- 

 visions, including several tons of walrus flesh and dried fish as 

 food for the dogs. Several hundred pounds of white whale 

 skin were also added to the store on account of its antiscorbutic 

 properties. Sailing from Godhaven, the Proteus reached Uper- 

 navik on the 24th of July, and left there July 29, going north at 

 full speed. Baffin's Bay, Smith's Sound and Kennedy Channel 

 were found remarkably free from obstructions. The season was 

 very exceptional. There the Proteus in 1881 found open water ; 



