Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-12-18

1t was true. The laws Of this district
prohibit such laxity of walking. The the
DRY or philosophy Of the case is, that tht
girl might fall in love with him and even
tually run away for his sake.
We came down and went out awe
must have new JAIL" remarked Senator
Crimes"
"What," / asked, ''would you do will
the old one!'
.Put barrel Of powder under it and
blow it up" he replied.
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a CAPTAIN in Tight Quarters
aud his Men left out in the
Cold.
CAMP GARisALpI, Nov 20.
Mr.. EDITOR IL must inform you how
some Of the Grant County boys have Jared
since leaving Milwaukee. We have been
drilled so much that | have not had time
to write till now. TO begin, when we ar
rived at St. Louis at night, no arrange
ments had been made 10 receive us and no
quarters had beer provided. Our Captain
aid not know where to take his company
so he started out to inquire for quarters,
and we waited upon the leyee for two
hours. We saw no more of our Captain
till next day at 10 o'clock, when he re-
turned reporting that the enemy had put
him in the lookup for trying to find COM
Portable place for his men, but We all
Judged that he had been drinking and had
beel locked up for safe keeping by the
Police, After the Captain had been gone
fora an hour, our First Lieutenant got tired
of waiting and went out in pursuit OF
quarters. He soon found US a sheltering
place in the top floor Of an old brewery oe-
cGpied by the Home Guards Of st. Louis.
The floor was covered quarter inch thick
with dirt and dust. This was different
Judgement from what we expected, as our
Captain had always told us that we were
to belong to Fremont's Body Quad, where
as if you had seen us next morning you
would have taken us for a drove OF FIRE.
mont's hogs, just through rolling in the
mud. We had on white pants the day
before, but neither our pants or ourselves
hayebeen very white since. Next we march
ed six miles to a place called English
Cave where we stayed about week; then
we marched TO Bremen Arsenal and there
sworn in for the third time. The officers
here said we were very fine company
then we marched along the Mississippi six
miles further to the other side Of Caronde-
let, the place being Camp Garibadi, where
We are as happy as CLANS in high tide
God forgive me for lying.) Our Captain
has since received his commission as Major
but be has not been appointed as yet nor
is he like to be as there are two or three
ahead of him. So our First Lient. Ly-
man is our acting Captain; he is good
officer, understands the drill, only he is very
cross to bis men and curses like heather
using such select oaths as You hear among
the lowest people down in groggeries, as
Cd d-n rascal, you DIN son Of q
BIB, and the like We have another
Major, and think he will do justice and
teach the officers something if he has not
already done so, as notice some OF them
appear to know which way the river runs.
Our late Major was discharged for abusing
his servant; he and Capt. Won Deutsch
were good friends, and any complaints from
our men to head quarters were hushed by
telling men that if they wished to ayIod
trouble, they'd better keep mum aud go
off about their business, "Get out OF here
you are drunk" was usual reply to any
comnIaints. But now is quite different, as
our new Major does not care any more ior
an officer than prsare.
Our every day practice was formerly as
follows: Rise it five o'clock; feed and
clean our horses and exercise them for one
nour; take them mile to water; return
~ breakfast on water, colored with some
thing like coffee, bread and pork, the litter
nearly raw sometimes; next clean our nor,
Us and wash ourselves, polish boots and
buttons. then foot drill till nine, then sad
dle horses and drill till half-past eleven
tban wafer horses and feed them, and dine
on soup, bread and meat. Clean horses
aoain. and dill on foot, then drill on horse
Back iii Eve, water and feed horses ano
supper bv dark. So you see We VIM
time we have for writing, washing, &c
At nine I'LL lights must be extlnsuisheu' IS
ter that prayers and bed. Such Is oul
every day work, except on Sundays, whes
we only drill afternoons TO please the GU
zens, who furnis'l the lager to our Gap
tain BY the key to compensate Tor siy :.
Such was the practice under the Old ON
GERS, but now il is different We do no
drill as much any day under the new oil
GERS and orders. Not long ago our cap
tain made a bet with another officer tha
his men could rise, dress, saddle horses
and be out on drill ground inside Of ter
minutes. AS the last man rode out b
looked at his watch and found them a
raadg in lust eight minutes and half. AT