Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-03
AT CHlCKAMAUGA PARK.
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| oped for pastry while on the train has
| not by any means gone.
| The change to army rations so sud
! denly rather told on the men and more
| ehan one has spent what little money
| he had with him, at these pastry
stands.
Some of the sights at these stands
| have been rather comical. More than
one has returned to camp with pie
| under his coat only to have it flattened
3ut by some comrade who has slapped
him across the pit of the stomach.
The event of today, was the depar-
ture of the LIST Illinois. the I'd and 69th
New York. and the 81 Pennsylvania,
| for Tampa. These are the troops who
came here some time ago and have
been going through the process of be-
ing acclimated. All of our boys are
wondering when their turn will come.
Many think that it Will be before their
urn should come, on account of their
splendid condition.
Some Of the New York troops when
hey arrived here were in no more CON
1ton to go to the front than they We're
10 so to the Arctic regions More than
one man as he came into camp brought
With him 4 dress suit case and in which
was stored slver-hacked brush AMI
comb and other similar trifles These
We're the men who were carried away
by the enthusiasm of the war y few
weeks training made entirely different
men of them and now they can eat
hard tack and drink black coffee as
we'll as any old veteran.
Our mon, when they arrived here,
had been through the mill and We're
we'll drilled and used to military dis
cipline. Fer that reason there is a gen
eral opinion that ii will not he a ssrea.
While before they Will again be on the
march. This idea OF moving just suits
some Of the men. for a good many came
here With the idea of seeing something
# the country. although many had no
idea that they would see it in this hard
manner.
The mon are now beginning to see
that they will not do all The fighting
there is to be done and that a good part
Of the time will he spent in camp life,
waiting to do the bidding of the men
under whose command they are. That
it is a hard life no one can deny. Yet
there are good many bright spots in
wv HI, Gwen tiItu7I lit Ill'SA va
is used hot as 4 table cloth. but as a
bandage for some poor fellow who has
met with an accident. and the finest
wheat as poulticc for the out side and
nGc as a poultice for a mans stomach.
Under the new rules the men are now
receiving much better food than they
lid a short time ago. Each man is
allowed IA pounds of beef, Is ounces If
bread. % ounces of beans and a
pound Of potatoes. Il day, besides the
regular amount Of coffee. Under til"
improved system for water. ar;esian
wells having been sunk the men are
much better provided for than they cX-
pccted
Fer the Maine men it is great sport
to watch the Massachusetts and New
York men drill. About 20 per cent. of
The men who are in camp have never
seen military arll. to have an intel
ligent id a IF what the movements
mean. and now these same men. who.
six months ago, laughed at Us on ac-
count of our grccnncss when we were
in Boston or New York, are in a posi-
ton where we can laugh at them. 1t
is one of the fortunes of war though
| and our mon are only too glad to eX
plain any point that the other boys do
not understand about drilling.
While we have been here it has been
| brought home stronger than ever that
| We are not the only fighters in the
| camp. Inc salvation Army is mere in
VII lorce anu WIlIlG inc men mere are
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