Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-06-09
al etter From the Front.

We are permitted to print the To-. r
lowing letter written to his mO'neI ~
Mr.. Leonard Rogers, the Shepherds
town soldier boy who is with the "s''
Virginia volunteers at Chickan""A
CH1cKAMAUeA PARK
June l, 1898.
D,,p NoTHER-I received your le''e'
and naner this evening at p. m. IL Is
,,orv hot down here. We had snanl
battle this morning. Wemarcheo aoou'
eftaen miles before we began to hgh''
# was very warm and We could get no
water. Water is scarce here. Tel neI-
bert that we met Gleason's Black niiiS
Cowbovs this morning They are campeu
here in the park. We do not get TO see
much of the park, only when Oh 'he
march. This park covers 81 Voo acres u
ground. ,,dr
Some of the companies have got boa!
lice in their camp. They nave ho'
reached our company yet have some
stuf on nv clothes to keep them on
Another man went to sleep on MS posi-
last night. He will be contaminated.
He is confined in the guard-house'
have been on guard once since wrote
YOU last. Tell Herbert to imagine MN
self walking up and down Tanner
woods on a dark night and have long
heat TO walk. only meeting a sentlnel at
each end of his post. That is the KIM
Of a post | have The officer OF the guaru
came around and | saluted him. linen
he asked me my general orders. re-
heated them TO him by heart. lie salu
that I was all right. Look in the lltte
red Guard Manual of mine and read on
page "a, paragraph pol to 2O4 That Is
what we have to learn by heart II Her
bert wants to 90 to war tell him to enlist
in Can't. Getzendanner's company as
bugler. They will soon teach him 10
blow it. Two of the Pennsylvania
died from eating pie. They were pol
soned. They do not allow them to sell
ANYTHING inside the lines anymore
This is the battlefield that Mr.. Ruther-
ford always talked about. Our division
is not likely to go to the Philippines
They saw that we will leave for Cuba in
side of three weeks. 1t may not be So
though. The man who | wrote about
going to sleepon his post, in my laStle'-
ter. was turned loose. edid not know
what a crime he had done. But the man
speak of in this letter knew what mil
itarv law is in time of war. Have not
seen Clarence yet. do not know what
he is in.
You might send me a few blue polka
dot handkerchiefs. They are the kind
that the West Virginia boys wear. We
wear them around our necks. The Mich
ican bows. who are our neXt-door neigh
bors. wear the red bandanas. The peo-
pie must be waking up about the war
up there in West Virginia. They would
not ioin the army for fortune about
three months ago Tell Uncle VIII to
write to me- We see lots OF the coun-
try, but we earn all we see. We have
Y. NJ. c. A. right back of us about TWEEN
tv-five yards have not been over yet.
had to do police duty Sunday, some
times called fatigue duty by soldiers. \
member of our company named Jack
Reed and myself had to take prisoner
before the Colonel yesterday. lie was
fined So for leaving camp without leave.
We had division review last week.
1t is a sight that has not been seen since
the civil war There were about 10000
of us lined up on the field. 1t was
sight worth seeing. The army music
was good. Our new muskets have come.
They are the old Springfield .45 caliber,
the same as we had before. We were
disappointed when we heard that we
would not get the new 80 caliber.
Well, | must close, as | do not know
ofanything else to write
Your son, L. T. ROGERS,
Co. H., LIST w. Va. Vol Inf, t. 5. A.,
Chickamauga Park, Georgia.