The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-03

have reached here of the desire OF the
men OF the Sd volunteer cavalry:
Chickamauga Park, Ca, Aug. %, 1898.
So busy have the days OF the past
week been that your correspondent has
had no opportunity of writing until
now.
Since the protocol was signed the
chief thought in the hearts of the Mon
tan boys has been. How Don can we
get home" All military pride has been
abandoned and cas- aside. everything
has paled before the one all-absorbing
desire to return to our homes. Al
though our absence has been short. yet,
H. view of our varied and manifold ex-
periences. I'm view of what we have
hoped and ain endured; in view of
the. to US. needless hardships borne,
the date Of our departure from Mon
lana seems to be very far in the past,
and the time of our mastering i'm APP
pears but dimly in our retrospective
g~lances.
one poor fellow who came with Troop
i ready To face death i'm his country's
cause, ready to sacrifice all for his ma
tons honor. has struck his colors to
the monster, Disease. He battled hard,
fought well and bravely, but fate had
set it's seal upon his life, and courage
availed not. We laid him to rest
amidst IL, 700 fellow soldiers, who died
on this same field some 30 odd years
ago. He has been given "A place in our
nations burying ground, and his name
is written on Columbia's records as
one who died i'm service of his country.
Mourn with his bereaved ones comfort
his relations: but never cease to re-
member when thinking of him hat he
surrendered only to his God. who rul-
eth all. and i'm your hearts give him
room as a true patriot. | speak OF Ed
mond G.. Johns. who died Of typhoid
fever Wednesday. Aug. %. 1898. on
Thursday he was buried in the national
cemetery in Chattanooga. His body
was escorted to it's resting place by all
the able men of the troop. His coffin
was covered with our flag, and when
the corpse was lowered into the grave,
after prayer, three volleys were fired.
taps was blown-the lights out Of
mortality-and slowly. sadly, we
marched away to rcioin our troop,
which can nevermore be complete. Per
chance, had we clearer vision, we might
see him upon the walls of eternity, clad
in garbs of peace, watching this seeth-
ing mass of humanity as IL marches
quickly onward TO the end where ceases
worldly. earthly care, and beyond
which lies the unknown. the unguessed,
the impenetrable future-the great We
NORTHUMBERLAND
\ TIT hdAa ~ ny w A'aH III AAA'
orders to muster out the various regi-
ments. and as one by one they move
away we wonder. VIII goes neXtH'
AT morn we eagerly sean the papers TO
see if our regiment is listed to go home;
at evening the same; and SO the week
passes. But yesterday the clamor was
too great. and at his invitation two
men from each troop of the regiment
waited on Colonel GriEsby. who told
them something of II prospects. 1t
appears that those of us who desire
II will be discharged. but il VIII re-
quire from five to seven weeks If we
remain in Camp Thomas. Should we
move 10 n more healthful point. we VIII
be i'm the same service perhaps three
months. And as the conditions are 50
bad here, it seems necessary to make
a change.
II is a noticeable fact that when In
high spirits ana enthusiasm n can
endur much more fatigue, can better
repuIse disease, than when melancholy
or languid and l~istless. To an extent
this accounts for the great increase IL
our sick report of late. Ever since we
came to the park we have been en-
Unused by the Idea Of going to the
front: and While after the first 30 DAYS
our ~antiCipationes were not so Keen
still we had hopes of securing a share
of glory by battling the enemy. Wher
the protocol was signed every nope Nd'
crushed. and those who a by sheel
determination kept M. lost their VIII
power and with il their health. FeNel
finds little resistance, and all ann
OF disease has an open pathway. on'
by one the boys are suCcumblnE to thu
bard food. bad water and the heat. I'm
less something is soon dom to encour
age or relieve us. our regiment will re
turn home on stretchers, and Their,
will be many more deaths.
GEO. BNRNE WILDS.