Arizona republican., 1898-05-20
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i An Interesting Letter From Well Known Phoenix Boy.

An Interesting Letter From Well 1 Known Phoenix Boy.
 | San Antonio, May 12, 1898.
 Dear Friends: have regretted very much that did not get to see all oi you at the depot to say good bye, but never dreamed of there being such g crowd there and knowing you would be there I thought would be able to see you easily, started to make my way through the crowd several times but it was no use, for I was not the only oyster in the stew I was kept constantly busy from the arrival at the train until it left shaking hands I never knew I had SO many friends and acquaintances. The hardest thing I had to do was to say good bye I do not think, without single exception that I shook hands and said good bye to a person but what it brought tears to my eyes. That reception was with out doubt the grandest affair I ever witnessed or participated in in my life and one which will be remembered forever, and a glimpse of that in my mind will, when on the battle fields of Cuba be the greatest inspiration to fight for victory or death."
 1 Nothing of very great interest oc- cured at Prescott or Whipple bar racks, except perhaps a statement made both by the examining officer and the mastering of1cer In sub stance it was this: "I never saw a finer body of men together in all my life" Oh, vanity, where art thou? Oh, no, our heads didn't swell, but our hat bands busted.
 George o. Buxton, Ca king among | men," as the boys called him, on two different occasions sent us a thirty box crate of strawberries and two gal | Ions of cream, which was highly ap- preciated.
 We had with us a little Frenchman from Tucson who by some hook or crook had passed the examination and who was a very undesirable person being both filthy and little crazy. So one night the boys told him he was tc be on guard and they took him about four miles from the barracks and gave him a candle with the in structions that he was to light it three times if he saw any Spaniards So the poor fool marched up and down there all night in the cold and rain and later it began to snow, and in the morning he came into camp nearly frozen to death. The next morning the captain had him discharged on the ground of insanity.
 We left Prescott on Wednesday, May 4, and arrived in San Antonio on Saturday morning, the 7th, at o'clock Prescott gave us quite nice farewell but nothing like the one at Phoenix They, however, raised $1,000 with which they bought US good things to eat on the start, such things as the United States did not furnish us. Our army rations consist of beans, coffee, salt, pork, fresh meat, bread, potatoes and occasionally corned beef and cab bage. So you see we can't say we are living of the fat of the land
 | We were issued our army kit yester- day, consisting of a knife, fork and spoon of steel and a tin pan and tin plate. These are all the dishes we have and each man has the same for which he is responsible to his captain.
 Our trip to San Antonio was through the most desolate looking country. the United States possess and was without any excitement other than at every
 
 day, we were welcomed by crowd with three cheers for the "cowtoy cav airy" When the train stopped they stood with open eyes and mouths eagerly watching for a sight of us as though they expected we had horns or hoOfs or some distinguishable marks. At Flagstaff we were met by the town band and quite a. delegation of town people, although it was 1 o'clock in the morning and the ground was covered with snow. We were treated royalty everywhere and re- ceived a warm reception at San An tonic. Wherever we go nothing seems too good for "Teddy's TerrOrs."
 The Arizona column when it arrived at San Antonio consisted of two troops with Captain McClintock in charge of the southern boys and Captain O'Neill in charge of the northern, 200 strong, including officers and men, but since we have been here they have split us up into three troops, making J. L. B. Alexander captain of the third, or troop c, as it is in line, and sixty-six men in one troop, sixty-seven in the other two. Since then we have had added to each of the Arizona troops three Harvard boys.
 We have among us sixteen boys from Harvard college, all of the class of '9S, and forty of the society swells from the four hundred of New York city These have been assigned to the diff ferent troops. They are all, large, nice looking boys, and seemed to en- joy soldier life as we'll as the rest of us. There are eighty men from Okla homa and $40 from New Mexico, and We expect 200 more from Indian Ter ritory any time now, which will make S76 men altogether, and we will com plete the regiment. We have not been issued our uniforms or blankets or horses as yet. I have just signed for