The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-07-27
CAMP M'CALLA LIFE.
xrw Jersey BOY WRITES OF THE
v,RINES' WORK ASHORE.


Good word For Cuban Patriots In Camp.
7,sarb f. r. Boniface of Company
MS. battalion Of the marine corps,
=, at Camp MoCalla, has written an
H..,.og+ino letter under date of June 20
lll' his father. John K. Boniface of South
st,ss+ Morristown, N. j. In part the
letter is as follows:
"nEAR FATHER-I received your let
Love last night, along with many more,
sItooe+ber II, and 10 newspapers, and
Eave 81 much reading matter on hand I
-ooroalv know which way to turn. But
hastily looked over the headlines of
+bam ali and read the accounts of us,
and thew are true in every particular,
asnoaialIv the one referring to our hill
fGbt 50 YOU can rely ON it and get the
,ows from one to six days earlier than
7 corld possibly send it to you. l would
lie va1 to save clippings of everything
Won see in any paper about the marine
corps. am myself proud of the corps
Ne did not know when we landed that
+ba Standards were hurrying reinforce
nents bere expecting that the army of
occnratiOn would commence operations
here We builded better than we knew.
Andwhile trainloads Of Spaniards were
killed by the shells from the ships we
little knew that Santiago was supply
ing them. You read of Lieutenant Nc
ellis capture Of the heliograph. Well,
tbev twice signaled for endorsements
with that, and they came, but the pres
ence Of our warships no doubt saved the
day.
"Two Of our men have become de-
ranged, one from fright and worry; the
other from overheating Every day we
are compelled to cut brush and burn it
for our own protection, and that is very
hot work I suppose you must have been
very anziously awaiting word. In fact,
Ihaye no idea of how you felt. You
see I felt secure, or at least protected
BY the unseen hand, and so had no fear.
To say the least, it is an indescribable
sensayion-that of being under fire.
First YOU don't show your head, or
rather you dodge bullets, wholly use
less operation then you don't care, and
finally stand up and hammer away. |
think you had best eagerly scan the pa
peS for engagements, and 1 will follow
up with particulars as soon as possible,
although some of the best war CORE
spmdants in the world are right here
Tihus The correspondent of the Lon
. ld0ppers says he has seen many a
Il Tight in every cline, but the utter
abandon and perfect calm with which
our regulars met the enemy at Santiago
was smoothing entirely new to him. He
says our skirmish line there is five miles
long, composed of Is, 600 men. Ships
are continually coming and going be-
tween here and Santiago, and we get
those daily bulletins printed on the New
York which keep US we'll informed.
The Spanish prisoners are working
IN golfers, and seem to enjoy their
work The magnanimity of the Ameri-
cans amazes them after what they have
neard, and they beg to be allowed to
work for their food, and so they do
night and day. I think myself that
many poor, deluded man is here
against his will. They told our men
through an interpreter that when draft
Gu they were told they would have
Plenty to eat here, nothing to do, and
%neh they came home they would get
'nelr pay and 4 fine farm.
There was no need of money here,
'ney said, as they could get all they
wanted without paying for it--a very
Dad thing for them, as their officers
uIeW all clothing rations, money and
pay You can easily see what chances
'ugIe are for the poor privates.
Inc Cubans get supplies of fruit,
|'I5eS, melons and bananas from the
opposite shore in small quantities, and,
w. ,, now good many a thing would tastel
L., Inc situation may have been I'M
~ guI5 emphasized. We are able to keep
t tLo 6peasers at bay, if not to carry on
t ta0 Intensive, and each day sees us bet
W. prepared. Our chooka- chook gun, or
w. .n5 machine, as we call it, firing
S 9oo same bullets as our rifles and about
o. d minute and sounding exactly like
foIS LIVING machine, and our ships and
tb ,au pieces more than give the dagoes
s rtt;TeeoIes' although if they had modern
larja ,-oiy ana efficient officers and artil-
moL .'S-- winch they haven they could
so vao US break camp We have put up
" I bnt tents Tor each company S use late
o ~, Duo so many Of US are needed for
st s'posts' picket duty, sentinels, patrols.
man. s, mat none of them are in much de-
bans ,nI n rather misjudged the Gu
ons MS at Key West These are a gener-
con n, brave people, and Viva los Ameri-
and ' j. Is heard as often as Viva Cubar
lu Is given as lne+il,. mn,