The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-08-05

FORT MONROE, August 1.-Once more we
are back at the Fort, as the first battalion
took our place in the pines yesterday, and we
moved down to their camp.
We are ca mped in different place from tnat
which we occupied before we went up to the
mortar batteries, for the ground we occupied
is now covered with hospital tents for the SICK
and the wounded from the South.
We are now located directly to the rlght OF
beadouarters, and We are not SO comfortable
as there are no trees to give shade ana we are
compelled to wear either a blue shirt or
blouse while up in the other camp, we were
allowed 10 dress Just as we pleased When not
drilling, and the dress was quite an undress
order. and while we are not compelled to
walk SO far before we can get anywhere, l
do not think the men are pleased with the
change.
Our men are by far the most cleanly about
the camp AS we have the record Tor Keeping
the cleanest streets, and if We are to Judge
the first battalion by the condition in which
they left the streets for us to come IN they
must decidedly have the dirtiest, for we had
| to work on it over an hour before 1t was III
only fair condition.
The wounded are getting along quite nicely
and express the desire, as soon as well enouSL
| to 90 back to the front again. few OF tht
| worst wounded and those who were sick will
| the fever when they were brought here have
died and there are more who are not expected
| to live.
| The harbor has Just been crowded will
| hattie ships and colliers for the past monti
| and this place has been full of naval officer
and seamen, but are nothing ike so owe
| RIM as Newport News, as there are about nv
| times as many soldiers there, although som
of them have been sent away on the Porto Kic
| expedition, but for some reason, pohtlcat /
is supposed, the First Regiment though JUS
as fully equipped as some that have gone an
better THAI most, are kept here In idlenes
although we are very anxious to get 10 u
front. =,
There is another large wooden hospital
the course of erection situated betwee
phocbus and Buck Roe, ard it is expected
he completed in a months time, and 1t wi
accommodate about eight hundred patients
The yellow fever which was commenein
, to make healway in the hospital has bee
checked and no new cases have envelope
LATELY and the case of small pox, which was o
| the boat at anchor in Hampton Roads, ha
been sent to Quarantine, consequently we q
not fear either of these diseases, as We wei
so carefully vaccinated when we first arrived
: We had hardly gotten our tents pltche
! and our things put away when Major LII
: came around and made us take all our b
, longjpgs out into the middle OF the street an
= afterwards tear our tents down and reptile
them about twenty-five yards from the org
r notice that the Maryland troops are bein
= issued canned tomatoes, the majority
: which seem to come from "Old Hartford"
We were told by the commissary today tn:
he is making preparations for Us, and that b
expects that in a month or about that time, '
: viii be sent South and we welcomed tt
news, -,
=, The recruits can now drill very well, al
they take their turn at guarding the fort, co.
crnasad 7. w. II.