The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-30
ALL VACCINATED.
Twenty-First Kansas Volunteers
Have Sore Arms

lCA Is very SCdICC- w ( nave lWO lOuI-
mule teams, and one of them is kept
| busy hauling water from the Big Blue
springs on the Alexander road two
| miles away. A system of water pipes
| has been laid on the ground, and inside
| of forty-eight hours we expect an
| abundance of water from hydrants in
| camp.
We are working like beavers and the
| following is the days programme as to
| soldier orders:
Reveille-Ffrst call at 535 a. m.
| Assembly at 5:45.
Breakfast call at $50 a. m.
Sick call at 6:20.
Company drill. first call at $50.
| Assembly at T.
| Recall from drill at 8.
| call at $50.
| Assembly at 900.
| Recall at 10.
| Parade, first call at 1920.
| Assembly at 1920.
| Dinner call at II o'clock.
| First sergeant's call at /.
| Supper call at 5.
l. Retreat roll call at 6.
| Tattoo at 9.
Call to quarters at 9:45.
Taps at 10.
In addition to this detail work is
done. The company streets are pollced.
Lieutenant Colonel Chas. McCrum holds
an officers scheel every day, and they
in turn hold a non-commissioned Of
ficers' school. McCrum is a splendid
instructor and very efficient and pop
ular officer.
Today companies A, B, c and D drew
their clothing. Each man drew
blouse, trousers, campaign hat, shoes,
socks, two suits of underwear, one blue
flannel shirt and a pair of 1eggings.
Tomorrow the rest will be supplied. 1t
makes all the difference in the world
in their appearance, and Kansas would
not beashamed of her soldier boys or
their appearance in new clothes of blue.
Brown canvas uniforms will be issued
at once. The boys were needing cloth
ing badly. Some of them were bare
footed and ragged. But from now on
they will be all right.
But this was not the only thing which
transpired to make the day memorable.
The first fresh meat which the soldiers
have had since leaving Topeka came
in camp and was greeted with cheers.
There was a pound and three-fOurthS
for each man and it was thoroughly
enjoyed. Sickness is on the decrease,
but sore arms are fashionable. DrS.
Armstrong, Biddle and Turner vacci-
mated the whole camp Monday, and
lame arms are begging to be excused
from the brigade parade on Monday.
Company K of Kingman had the
honor of being the first company to do
duty at brigade headquarters. They
went up last night and put in twenty
four hours.
Captain B. S. Snow has rendered his
resignation as captain of Company F
to take effect at once. He will return
to Kansas and help fill the second call.
The line of promotion has been recon-
mended by the regimental officers
This will make Ezra E. Beard captain,
Walter NJ. Ellis, first lieutenant, and
Clarence L. Barron, second lieutenant.
Several companies here have a mas
cot. Company NJ has a white pig that
strayed into camp. 1t has become quite
a pet and the fellow who would kick
that pig would have a scrap.
Another company has a long cared
Pot-hOund they stole in Kentucky He
is named Dewey. The Kingman boys
have a small dog and it is called Miss
Dewey. Coming through an Illinois
town the dog was on the platform with
it's owner and one of the boys dropped |
a rope loop over it's head and drew it
into the car Just as the train started. |
Company B of Larned received by ex- |
press today a mammoth fruit cake |
which weighed so pounds. 1t was sent |
by the women of the churches there, !
and if the good women who baked it |
could have seen its disappearance it |
would have been an ample reward Tor |
their labors. We can testify to the ex- |
cellent quality of the cake, as the boys |
remembered US with a slice.
Nearly all the regiments around us !
have established what is known as |
"canteens'' where beer and whisky are |
sold and the profit goes for extras for |
the regiment. When the question came /
up as to what we would do it was I'M
aninously decided by the officers that |
no liquor SnOulQ De sou All Jul
So you see the boys are loyal to the |
laws of our beloved state.
Today we celebrated the thirteenth
of the wedding of Major /
and wife with a dinner of |
roast beef, soft bread and butter,
strawberries and coffee.
1t is most pleasant to sit in the door
of a tent and listen to taps being sound
ed. 1t is the most beautiful thing I |
ever heard.
The Kansas boys who left the farm
and the workshop to follow the flag are
accepting the conditions as they come
and while, perhaps, their thoughts go
back to loved ones at home, their
patriotism has not cooled, nor their
valor dimmed, and wherever the flag
of the Twenty-first goes, they will fol-
low. and will cause no blush of shame
to mount into the faces of the people
Of the great soldier state of Kansas.