Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-06-03
ALL ARE WELL.
Good Care Taken
Of the VermOnters

CAMP THOMAS. tUl.hAlIAJDa.
Man ~. 'y-.
The weather here +, way over toe top oi
. the mercury with room TO SPARE. Do takes
/ hold of %. Green Mountain lads who ar.
used tl something cooler az This time of
/ tine year, Good June weather was passed
somewhere in Jersey. think
/ one of the great causes and apparently
/ useless. too. of sickness is The water here
which all are compelled to- use That
which we use for cooking for nearly 5u-
/ OlJ men comes from Chickamauea creek.
/ where nearly that number OF tired and
dusty soldiers GO for a wash: why-be-
cause all the "tenth class" water we can
get is used Tor drinking purposes and NOT
/ tor bathing
II is simply outrageous, and when / say
that, voice the sentiments of every officer
in the park VIVA, the object of the gov
eminent was in sending -. 600 men here 20
Doe slaughtered hv The water. and NO sauI-
tarv accommodations. is what everyone is
asking.
The death rate iu q month from now.
when the refuse wing at every step even
now begins TO breed all sorts of disease.
vii. Oa appalling. and 3D. is not going too
Tar TO say tina, there will boz trouble of
some kind if they do no. make a change
The men say they would rather go TO
Cuba now Than to stay here so die like a
razor-tacll hog with the cole, wlthou.
even nuns gun a, the enemy.
But above % all Company has not had
one iu the hospital yet. no one being iu
but those drinking too much of the water
Chaplain DAY told me yesterday that the
Vernon; boys We're all right, as they
knew how to take care of themselves I'm
der existing conditions.
one sad thing occurred when the New
Hampshire BOYS were marched from Ross
vile TO Missionary Ridge the first day.
The next day they marched into camp
without a stop. until their colonels horse
dropped under him. II is rumored with
truth think. tool that one company came
into camp with only 81 men out of 81. the
others lying on the side OF the road some
where
Three hundred OF their regiment are ID
the hospital caused from tina, strain and
doing two hours drill and three or four
hours police duty day
Not one of our whole regiment dropped
during our four miie-wa!k into camp that
hot day. Why" Because our officers .e.
us rest every mile They have been as
careful OF us all the way through as our own
people could have been, almost. \ on Just
come down here and stay with us a day or
two and You will understand what tina,
means.
Last night, while lying on our blankets
for q nights rest and dreams OF home. We
heard distant cheering way down beyond
the Nj issourI regiment. starting like the dis
taut roar OF the waves breaking on some
rocky shore. Slowly but surely il came
nearer and nearer louder and louder. until
it struck the New York regiments, who are
next TO US, where their drum corps and
men took it up and brought us of our fee,
and into company streets TO hear that
sampson had sunk nine Spanish war ships
with only the loss OF one of his OWL.
Well. Then was great doins" for an
hour. We are looking for the man who
started the story.
Not being able to 60 to sleep after tina.
! went out 10 "see what ! could see.
could hear lot but not see much. as most
Of the candles had burned low. We get
one for tent every three days. The muir
murlng of those talking about the great
strike Sampson had made, the probable
manner in which he did it, conjecture as
to which one Of the boats had gone down
in the great battle, etc, sounded like the
talk OF the crowds at the Valley Fair.
The noise was over al last-but we are
still looking for the "duffer" who started
the canarj
some of the boys of 81 will imagine the
looks OF the lad Cas well as the mulel. who
last evening thought he could ride one OF
Uncle Sans mules to the corrai-but he
didn't, landing about two miles Fahrenheit
square on his back And speaking about
backs reminds me that the mules had O.
hump on it, as he threw the lad. like Look
out Mountain
While some OF the Tennessee boys We're
digging their well they found q sword.
a bayonet scabbard, a few Union and rebel
balls. They say tina, in the hollow we
face was the hottest par, of one battle
during the war
Some OF the boys do not care for the
feed tina, Uncle sam gives them. so buy
pies, cookies and other nice things for the
stomach ache and top of with two or
three glasses OF lemonade. II would be-
better for them to eat the glass that is
around the lemonade and top of with the
the tins that the pies are baked in. They
are not knocked out for more than one
round and are up next morning looking as
though they had learned a lot.
business is business. T..r
CANT THOMAS. Nav %.
The nights are fine. in fact il grows