The evening times., 1898-09-01

reputation for himself as a soldier. Then
We have more Georgetown boys, some
Of whom at various times more notably
at pay day, have taken French leave
and visited the old-time haunts. Beatty,
Moody and many others are from Swan
poodle. We have "Nelsa' Sayres, known
among the boys as the Sergeant
Shmay Waller. Peggy Wise and others.
Then from "CowtowR" we have Mike
White
And we have Joe McEneany. of the
First ward, whose father is trusted en-
ploye in the Pension Office, and who by
the way came to Fredericksburg two diff
ferent times to see his boy. The hills OF
Fredericksburg We're familiar TO the old
veteran. for many years ago, when II
tried mems very heart strings to soldier.
he was in il, and he had many eager list
eners TO his "reminiscences of the civil
war. Well, Joe got a neutrality-suspicious.
pass, went home, and saw his dear old
mother, and now he IS happy. 1t would
be tireSome TO mention individually each
and every one of the Washington boys.
When this cruel war is over their rec
ord will be found in the War Department.
and no doubt many of us will refer to il
with pleasure. We wanted to fight and il
was no fault of ours that we did not get
the chance all opinions 10 the contrary
Notwithstanding, and when we get back
we want just as much huZza as those
who had the chance. / have gotten away
from the subject, though there is not
much else TO say. OF this you can rest
assured the District is well represented,
and though morning paper that is pub
liShed in your city, some time ago, class
ed us as 'hoboes,' Company B can hold
its own at any time, far as respecta-
bility and honest workmen are concerned.
The people of Washington know US
and there is no occasion TO go into a
lenghthy article for the purpose Of vim
dication Many, yes. very many, of us
left good homes, good positions and good
salaries to go soldering, and we meant
well when we did it. We have, and do
at the present time put up with some
tough living, but we are going TO stick
it out. Havana, with all its Ills of vel
low fever, smallpox and the like has no
terrors for us. Just think, we were as
sembled this morning specially 10 be told
not to go among the other regiments, as
there were some cases of measles. We
heard in our youthful days of this COM
plant but TO warn US ''immunes'' about
this would make horse laugh. 1t is so
ridiculous Taking everything into con-
sideraton, those of us who got away
safe and well from Fredericksburg need
had so many things TO contend against
here everything is lovely. 1 would like
II give you an account of our camp life
bu. fear that it would be tiresome. Many
things, considered of slight Importance
now, would be in the future perhaps of
great Importance, not only to us poor pri-
Yates but to many of the coming genera
ton, in whose school histories there must
be some account of this short and decis-
i've conflict.
Before I close I must mention this: In
Fredericksburg we had a Y. M. c. A.
tent, and when we pulled up stakes they
did the same, for like a noted character
in Shakespeare, their Occupation was
gone Instead we have another building
that is known as the 'canteen,' and,
though l have been here few years, /
must say that the sight l beheld the
night it was opened surpassed anything
in my experience. Talk about bull fights
in Mexico, it was nothing IN comparison
to the opening of a, "canteen." Each
man got one-fifth of his pay in checks,
and it appeared to me that each man