Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-08
IN THE HOSPITAL.
Experience Of Corporal George +.
Temple Of Augusta.
" ~ Body and Mind. Makes Life Hardly
Worth Living.

IL.
Inc HE of the man who is i'll does not
eontain SO many pleasures as the well
man. and the many hardships are harder
sun Tor him, to say nothing of the home-
sickness that they have to contend with
= letter was received, July A. by Hugh
rogers OF this city, from Corporal George
=. Iemple of Co. F, LIST Maine Volunteers.
a. Snickamauga. that will tell its own
story OF the manner in which the iovial
corporal is now suffering, so that he
would perhaps not look like the same
man VINO has for the past u or more
years been a member of the National
Guard:
Second Division Hospital,
Chickamauga Park,
Lyle, Ga, June 2S 1898.
Dear Old Friend Hugh:
received your letter. last night. June
q. ana was glad to hear from an old
TREND whom l have known for so many
years.
Wen. Hugh, truth will bear its weight
any Wnere, even in a courthouse and the
truth in my case is that am discouraged
ana homesick. for | have been sick ever
since =! nave been here with dysentry.
got ittle better and went out on drill
! didnt drill long, when / was overcome
v. |
Lieut. BlackinSton if | could fall out and
ne salu yes. l made out to walk about
~ 1eet from the open field where we were
drilling, to the woods. when | fell and
was unconscious, how long | don't know,
hut when | came to. there was a Ken
lucky soldier putting water on my face.
AS. soon as / could speak he asked what
regiment | belonged to. and | told him.
the Maine. Then he asked what my cap
yam $ name was, and | told him | be-
n n "A tvD Sc
Love1oy, and he was up in the open field
drilling with his men. He left me and
went off and found the captain who had
Sergeant Partridge and Tibbetts carry
me to my tent Captain Lovejoy did not
go, as he had to go back to his company.
When l got to my tent l had chill and
was freezing, shaking all over, so after
while they sent over and got the ambu-
lance and carried me to the hospital that
goes with my regiment. They took my
temperature and it was los, and they said
1t was malarial fever. and then they sent
over 10 my company and got my blan-
kets and dishes. There were several of
the boys over to see me off. and they felt
bad when | was put into the ambulance.
and carried me three miles fro n my reg
iment to a quiet place called the u Di-
vision hospital, where they carry the
men from the different regiments. The
first day | was here. was awful sick.
! was out of my head all day. with ma
laria pains in my head. j tell you. ]
have been awfuly sick. and have suffered
awfully with the fever. There was one
man died here with the fever. last Sun
day. June p. He belonged to Co. \, LIST
Mississippi.
Lieut.. Col. Morton Of my regiment,
Captain Lovejoy and Lieut.. Backington
were up to see me, Sunday, and | appre-
ciated their call very much. for it is lone
some to be sick SO far away from my
regiment and my company.
My bed has screens hanging about it.
to keep out the flies and we have two
nurses one by day and one by night, and
all they give me to eat is three swallows
of milk or beef tea, three times a day.
and once in the night. There is woman
here taking care Of her son from New
York. | wish my wife was here to take
care of me- Speaking of homesickness.
there isn't man here. | don't believe,
who wouldn't give all his old boots If he
was out of il. / have been surprised To
hear so many, even the officers of the
Southern regiments, say that if they
Were out of it they would stay out
can take his rubber blanket AMI sleep on
this ground here. and breathe this air
that is filled with dirty black dust, and
drink this sWampy water, without having
bowel trouble or maiarlal lever. ne
dust in the roads is from two to three
inches deep. and where the clouds roll up
over the trees, the rain looks down upon
the dust and says, Il am onto you; your
name is mud ana sure enough 1t IS
mud six inches deep.
There was man came to my tent ana
asked if there was Il Maine man IN there.
and | said yes. He handed me a paper
and it was Il Kennebec journal, ana II
looked like home to me-, l noticed that Il
name wis written on the top with lead
pencil ana it was Miss NJ. NJ. Hanson
Well. Hugh, | viii close, hoping to hear
from You soon, for | am all tired out
ana awfully weak. | have been two days