The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-07-15

and thought before / got IN that 4
should kick In the side Of the tent and
wake UP every body; but didn't, and
finally ! managed to get over into 1t.
/ had no spreaders and no pillow to
sprend 1t out. and found 1t crowded
me very hard head and foot, and 1t
sagged down in the middle like a bag.
It Was the first time I'd ever been In a
hammock, and 1t was. about as uncom-
Portable as could be. suppose that
was due largely to the hammock itself,
or the way 1t was slung, for there must
be such thing as q comfortable ham,
mock, because there's plenty Of men
that sleep In hammocks every night
and like 'em, and find It hard work to
get used to beds again ct first when
they 90 ashore, but I found it hard
work to get used to my hammock, and
there was one thing / hadn't counted
ON at all, and that was the mosquitoes.
They were bad enough In the tent, but
out here they had free approach from
all directions, and the blanket was just
no impeachment to them at all; 1t didn't
even bend their beaks; nothing short
of sheet-iron or wooden blanket could
have kept them out.
But l sort Of felt, as q matter of
pride, that ought to stick 1t out, and
did. covered up my head and pretty
soon went to sleep, hanging there be-
tween the two posts. But 1 didn't stay
fhorn MI h -,
the morning, when it was still pitch
dark and the whole camp was very
still, l dreamed heard dull thud and
woke up and found my feet still up in
the air, but my shoulders on the
ground. The rope at the head end Of
the hammock had parted and let my
head drop to the ground.
II didn't put the hammock back.
took down the other end and put the
clothesline back on the posts and crept
into the tent quietly and lay down on
my barrel slaves. After trying the
hammock found the bed more COM
Portable. York Sun.
Volunteers in War.
Most of our volunteers in the civil
war, says veteran, had good training.
Zouave drill was a sort of fad at the
beginning Of the war, and was laughed
at as theatrical 'circus business" but
1t came In good play. When the divi-
sion of Lew Wallace was pressing for
ward at Fort Donelson to reclaim the
steep ridge lost in the morning of the
second day, Wallace remembered that
there were two regiments in the divi-
sion the members of which had been
trained in the zouave drill in climbing
and assaults on Notifications. These
regiments were ordered forward, and
through the drill of weeks and months
they went up the ridge in way that
sent 1.-THE Confederates to the rear.
The chief trouble with new men was
that they wanted to do everything in
fifteen minutes. They were FESTIVE I'M
der restraint and resentful under the
burden Of camp duties. They had en-
listed to fight, and the idea that they
must do police duty in camp, must dig
bitches, build barracks, scrub floors,
clear away brushwood, seemed to them
preposterous. Under these conditions
home sickness and want of adaptability
killed more men than bullets. But in
time all these FESTIVE fellows came to
accept everything in the soldierly spir-
it. Our regiment accepted things in
this spirit from the first, and we had
few men in the hospital. Another regi-
ment in our brigade cultivated the op-
posite spirit and lost 20 per cent. of Its
men by disease.