Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-07-14
OUR BOYS IN CAMP.
Cs. T., 18th Regiment, Fort
Washington Rid.

FrIpAY JrLY 5, 1893
For nearly three months Co. z. with
the rest of the 18th. have been in the
field Valiantly serving our country as
volunteer soldiers, and yet we are all
alive and IN good beaith, able TO do our
duty every day We have experienced
weather whose temTer4tur9 ranged from
sev oral degrees below the freezing point
up to one hundred degrees in the shade
We have had no greater physical en-
enlies to fight than flies, mosquitoes.
woodticks aud jiggers Asmoral antag
onists we have three saloons within a
half mile Of our present camp.
Usually we have had enough soldier
grub to satisfy us, rarely nave we had
more than we needed, and several times
we have not had enough. On such oc-
casions we pull our belts little tighter
and kick and growl at whatever or
whomever we fancy to be the cause of
the shortage.
Judging from the present condition
of the 18th we are not destined by the
powers who are running this war to see
service at the front We are not equip
ped to take the field. For all we have
been out nearly three months, in Co. q,
with one hundred and six men, there
are only about seventy muskets and
forty sidearms. So far we know the
other companies of the Regiment are in
about the same condition. 1t is report
ed that yesterday the remainder of our
arms and equipments arrived at Fort
Sheridan.
On the last day of June six new cor
porals were appointed. They are Will
Rebhun, Thos. Mckee, Howard Haz
lett, Oscar McClung, JOS Heinman, and
Chas. McElvain, ranking in the order
named.
July 1st., our district congressman,
Hon. J. B. Showalter and his wife were
made welcome by Co. L. They present
ed us with lot of Wheeling tobies and
n crate Of lemons If we are in the
field at the time of the November cleo
ton, the congressional ticket, Il Nation
al one, will be the only ticket we can
vote unless some old law is resurrected,
special State Hesitation would be re-
quired to enable us to V0oc-tor state and
local tickets As the Legislatu-e, Is not
in session there can be no such law~Hn
acted Mr.. Showalter will get large
majority ofCo., Els vote.
For several days past Clarence Gra-
ham has been cook with Harry McCol-
lough and Del. Hindman as assistants.
Their cooking is first class. At the trst
Of the week something went wrong Mt
the Fort bakery and we had no bread
Cullen Armstrong baked us some biscuits
on Sunday and that night detail was
sent up to Alexandria where they hunt
ed the town over 20 get ms enough bread
for the next day.
Our Fourth Of July was q quiet one,
we had no IRE crackers. All we conid
do was hurrah for Shafter, Schley, Samp-
son aud the brave boys at Santiago and
wish we were there. In the afternoon
we beat our old friends, Co, G in a bail
game, the score was TO 1.
Since Tuesday evening we have had
battalion drill for AN hour every even
ing beginning mt half past six. This
makes four hours of drill daily, two
each of infantry and artillery, Capt.
McJunkin acts as major The four
companies with hundred men each
in line are as large as an old National
Guard regiment. Orr recuits have been
broken in 70 camp work and DO as well
a. the older members, Co., E was foTtq-
nate in getting a splendid set of men to
complete her roster Many of the com
pany have bought and sent home large