The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-31
CAMP MEADE.
An Interesting Letter From One
of Our Soldier Boys.
MIppLEroWN. PA..
August 22nd. 1856.

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safe and well Saturday at IL a. p. !,
and the boys are all happy. There
are some 5000 soldiers here now
and other regiments are coming IN
every few hours, and we win soon
have some 25,O00 to 10000 soldiers
in camp.
The States Of DelaWare Tenn
-essee, Missouri Pennsy ylvania, New
York. New Jersey Indiana. Hi
nois, Ohio. Kansas, Colorado, Yir-
ginia and West Virginia are nov
represented, and the hills and bot
toms along the Susqehanna are
dotted with the white tents, and
present a most beautiful appear
ance,
The Susqehanna river flows past
our camp and is a fine body of
water, the river is about twice the
width of the Ohio at our place, the
(Point,) but is lot very deep, and
the banks are only about IL feet
high, and the tide water has reach
ed as far up as this place. The
boys visited the banks of this beau
tiful stream yesterday, and many
took the advantage of a bath in its
pure waters and felt very much re-
freshed.
The trip to this camp was one
long to be remembered by the
boys, for the scenery along the @.
& o. r. r., was certainly grand,
and as we passed through the New
River gorge end saw the hundreds
of coke ovens in operation, and in
dustry upon all sides, thence along
the Greenbrier River and over the
Mountains to Clifton Forge, when
darkness obscured the rest of our
journey until we reached Alexan-
dria, Va, the next morning at day
break.
At the dawn of the early morn
ing the boys got the first glimpse
of the Washington Monument
looming up in its majestic proper
tions as we approached the Capitol
City, but we stopped here but few
moments, although we would loved
to have seen more of our nations
capital, but we did see the dome of
the building and got a glimpse up
Pennsylvania Avenue as we passed
by on the cars, and saw the masts
of hundreds of small vessels as
we crossed the Potomac river, us
we approached Washington.
We hurried on to Baltimore
where we took breakfast. Fresh
water and ice was here ordered for
all the cars. but the railroad Off
cials said we would get it further
on, but Col. Moore. who feels for
all the boys under his command
and sees they never want for any
thing, told them this was as
good place to camp as he had
found and would camp on the
main line until water and ice was
furnished. We were quickly sup
piled, but we had only about three
quarters of an hour in Baltimore.
The prettiest part of the whole
trip was after we had left Balti-
more few miles. and then for
distance on either side of the road
for about 8 to 10 miles. it had the
of one continuous park.
The residences were magnificent
and the fine drives of lime stone
leading from the public road were
bordered on each side by weIl-kept
shrubbery and shade trees.
Capt. Smith, of Company &C."
was officer of the day and Lieut..
L. g. Somerville, officer of the
guard, on our journey to this camp,
and everything was pleasant.
The camp was visited by thous-
andS yesterday. Our camp Is De-
tween Harrisburg and Middletown,
three miles from Middletown and
six from Harrisburg. directly on
the electric car line between these
two cities, and the cars come and
go every FIVE minutes and are load
ed to their utmost capacity.
This is certainly a fine country,
and some of the finest farming
land the eyes ever beheld. and the
buildings are magnificent. and ev-
erything points to high state
of cultivation. The settlement
around here seems mostly to be
generous and fine class of peo-
pie.
We visited the Ohio Regiments