The evening times., 1898-09-02
HOME FROM THE WAR.
Several District Volunteers Return
to Washington.


Several members of the First Regi-
ment of District Volunteers have already
arrived in Washington. They are on fur
Tough and i'll every instance the boys re-
ceievd q joyous welcome from their rel
atives and friends.
Edmund Burke, of Company c, Nation
a Fencibles. is at his home, No. co
Third Street northwest. He was b ought
home Wednesday b. his mother. who
went to Montauk and secured for him
furlough Burke has been i'll with ty-
phoid fever but is convalescing and with
good nursing promises to get we'll
A Times reporter saw him this morn
ing He said: when we arrived in Gu
ba we went into camp at the place where
several of the Rough Riders are buried.
At o'clock on the morning of the 1lth
we were awakened and received orders
| for a hurried march to the front. Leaving
| tents and camp equipments behind we
! started forward in our shirt sleeves.
Some of the companies were placed in the
/ trenches on the firing line and others
! went to digging That night ii rained
| very hard and we put up ShackS but the
| rain knocked them down. 1t became
! quite cold and as we had no protection
| the men huddled together 70 keep warm.
! While in the trenches we had no food
! except what we could beg from the
| camps round Sometimes we picked
| hardtack out of the mud round the LIN
| nOis regiment hospital.
| After the surrender we moved our
! camp TO San Juan Heights. and Company
| G was located on the hillside. We then
began TO get a little better food. Fresh
| bread was given US every other day ana
occasionally We received some beef. can
| ned tomatoes. potatoes and rice. AS soon
as the sun would strike the beef. though,
| il spoiled. and it made number OF the
| men sick ] became i'll and was sent TO
the division hospital One day l was told
that we were going home on the Hudson.
| Ion the transport we had moldy hard
| tack and beef that was very rank Inc
coffee was badly steamed. The steward
of the vessel donated barrel of potatoes
and we had some OF them in soup The
odor was so bad on the lower deck thai
the men could not stay there, and W.
went on the upper deck, where We spent
nearly all the slime. We wen, below only
for rations.
.At Montauk everything was ready fol
US. There was as fine eating as could b'
desired. and good tents. with floors IL
them. We had the best of treatmen
there, and wanted for nothing.
Among the latest arrivals from the
front was Julius Augustein, of Company
D. who is now at the home OF his pa
rents. No. 7l2 Fifth Street northwest HI
is suffering from an attack of malaria
fever and is being attended by DR.. Beh
rCnd
volunteer, believed to be Henry Yos
of the District Regiment, is at the hom'
of Mrs. Charlton. No. 2l22 NJ Stree
northwest. He is delirious from feye
| and is believed TO be in a critical cOndi
| ton.
Another Washington boy who is hom
| on furiOugh is Private Willard NJ. Rugs
of the Regular Signal Company. attached
to General Lees army at Jacksonville
He is stopping with his parents at No
1924 Pennsylvania Avenue. When he lef
: Camp Cuba Libre Paul Brock, son o
Henry Brock. proprietor of the Congress
sional Hotel, and Privates Best an,
. Falls. all District Volunteers. were con
fined to the hospital with fever