New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-19
HAPPY AT CHICKAMAUGA.
MEN OF THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT
SAID TO BE WELL CARED FOR


OFFICERS RETURN TO THIS CITY TO RECRUIT
THREE HUNDRED MORE MEN-MoNEY
SCARCE. But FOOD PLENTIFUL.
Quartermaster Logue. OF Company D, 14th
Regiment, stationed al Chickamauga met many
friends In the Municipal Building Thursday. and
greeted by them with all the ardor that is
generally extended to a gallant solder OF
gallant regiment He is IN Brooklyn with Lieu
tenants Bridgetts. Mcnamara and Wngate for
the purpose OF getting three hundred recruits.
1t IS expected that he will take back with him
a number 81 old 18Th men who wanted 20 go out
on the first call. The l4th LETT the city with
twelve companies Of eighty-two men each. and
Il viii be recruited at orce 70 twelve companies
OF 103 men each.
Quartermaster Logue was seen by Tribune
reporter while he was chatting with friends in
the Municipal Building. and had number OF
interesting things 20 saw
The 14th hoys are happy as clans" said he
and II you hear anything 10 the contrary, just
don't believe IT, Please say in The Tribune that
there is no foundation for the stories that there
Is no; enough to eat The fare Is substantial
and there is plenty Of IT, Every man gets loaf
Of fresh bread every day. Soldiers IL The Civil
War. I'm told didn't get fresh bread once
year The bacon and beans and vegetables that
we receive are just the sort Of fare to make men
strong and capable of standing fatigue. The
most Of us realize that are down there TO
fight, and not to crticse the ratiOns. even II
there were room for H. I want to register a
kick, however. against the Southern Railway
system that the boys travel over to reach
Chickamauga They are the worst that ever
happened When We were worn out with IA
tigue they would not let us turn the seats
Some newspapers are making a heap Of trou-
BILE down there. Many OF the men write conf
Dental letters home. and some Of these get into
print in a wildly exaggerated shape. The OIL
GERS call the men UP and want to know what
they mean by telling lies about the life in camp
and the men have great difficulty in explaining
The discipline in the 18th IS first rate. No one
in Company D has as yet lodged night in the
guardhouse Colonel Grant was unusually strict
while he was in command OF the 18th and he
made good soldiers Of the boys In short order
Our new colonel Wilder. is much liked by the
men. Like Colonel Grant he is a West Pointer,
and he is OF the most approachable men in
the service He IS strict in disciplinary matters.
we get in our drill work in the cool parts Of
the day far as possible from 70 $50 O'Clock
in the morning, and from 800 TO > In the after
noon. It's mighty not down there, though.
some Of the time registering as high as 40 IN
the shade. There have been remarkably rev
prostrations from the heat among the Northern
yet. / wish you would say IN The IT'D
une that II the friends OF the soldiers send them
any dainties they will be received safely. |
was never so hard UP financially IN the world
as since ! have been down there. don't know
what a dollar would look Ike 10 me to-day u
! should see one rolling down the street IL
would indeed look like cart wheel thai we
used TO joke about When left received ~
cents for coffee money. and jingled that money
In my pocket all the way home. My Wifc's got
two cents OF II. and she going TO keep them as
mementOs
The state wages from May 10 May
10 and the National Government owes Us from
May is 10 the present time II seems 10 me that
there IS unnecessary delay in paying the wages
OF the soldiers but no doubt there is good reason
for II. The water at the camp Is good now AZ
first II was poor but pipes have been laid on
tor OF the ground from distant creek. ana
while the water IS warm. II is free from mpuri-
ties Fifteen men from old Company y nave
signifed their intention Of existing with us.
and I'm anxious to get all The drilled men can
take back
The quarterInaster had with him beautiful
gayel for ex-senator william II. Reynolds. ~
BROOKLYN II was made from laurel wood grow
ing on Lookout Mountain. and QuArierinas'er
Iogue said that one or two men II camp Were
making good money from the sale or these
handmade gavels He said the woods were iuil
OF snakes and lizards, who did their utmost 20
share their sleeping accommodations with the
men but that the snakes did not bite