The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-07-06
News From Sumter Soldiers
SONS INTERESTING NOTES
OF CAMP LIFE AT CHICK
AMAUGA.
Camp Gee. q. Thomas.

Camp Geo. q. Thomas,
Chicksm.nga, Ca, June %, 1898.
After being here while with the First
South. Carolina Regiment, and receiving sew
eral requests to air n y opinion Of camp life
i2 general, and our boys daily lie In par
ticu!av, decided that short letter might oe
opporsune
A more or aerly, gentsemsuly Sc. OF meo
than are i, this Regiment cannot be found,
saking them as whole Camp routine is
very nonotonous 10 some ways, but stirring
eoough 10 others.
The fare is wfe,ched sometimes Often the
pr,.ates and noo-commissionedo officers break.
fast on light bread. coffee without sugar, aod
ooe tiuy slice OF fat .bscoa Their supper
Sunday night cosais,ed OF enc slice If dry
bread This is pretty bard. as The list Of
provisions published oy the government
bly, and with reason. as the strength of men
depends upon proper die,
There is, and has beeo 8 good deal Of sick
ness 10 Co. .'N" Psisates Jenkins, acGee,
Mcleod, NcCa,chen, and Corp. Cunning
ham are in the Regimentsi Rcspi'ai with
mnmps They resemble strongly Dickens
s.Fa, Boy particularly Private Jeokips aud
Corr. Cunningham. Private Terry IS very
sick win typhoid f yer, at 0ivisioa Hospit !
Yesfesdsy be was better. and there Is no
resscn Why he csnoot recover 10 siuse.
Private DIV ght Dick bis been sick ever
since he eane He vas advised TO return
home before be vas mustered in, but would
nos leave, 80 was taken CD to Diyisioo Head
quarters yesterday to Asj,r ocum and vas
sxorn 10 serve his eoun,fy for two years A
few other men are slightly indisposed, bnt
will shortly be all right
81 We have two drills a dsy, and retreat
twenty minutes before sunsi Our band
was recruited by erder Of Col AlstoD, and
we nov hope 70 have better music, ss Sergt
Wioa was appointed to be sort Of drum
major. We regre, losing him, but the baud
vii. profit ny our loss.
Since coming to Chicksmangs our @ iar-
termasier-Serseanf, and severai Others oaTe
invented new bath As il was very threat
eoiog Que night and they Cooked for q heavy
rain, they thought they would prepare for u
Shower bath AS there was dearth OF soup
they ga cared themselves with ChickamauEa
mud, (,he MOST ciinging ever see"), aod
stood outside Of their tens waiting for the
deluge Alas i, came not, 80 The list state
of our Qaartermas,er-Sergean aud folio owers
was worse than the 6es,
Camping out is nice enough for pleasure,
bul fog the soldiers it is terrible Tals is
fne compared to what Cnea will he, yet the
boys Hse ANXIOUS to leave this neanufui spot
We will leave here in about te, days OF, Two
weeks The latest order is that the whole
First Army Corps, 81 Regiments, viii owe
nader Geo Brooke, ss soon as poss,b-
The South Csroiina Regiment is in the FIRST
Corps, and from the way thiogs are oei e
rushed, Ihey will scon move Our Battalion
iSiokes) axes 6ne sh " and rrcet7es
every encourage eat from cur zopciar and
patient d j,f.
Col Ais.on is very proud of bic men, AN
they eE bim slst.
Pay day has drawn bear, and so all the
boys sn.icipa,e a big time ehoFtIy Tney
will be paid from the 5tb Of May to the 30;5
Of jone.
> Hampton Flowers is acting as Orderly Z
Nsjor Mood To-day, nd etjo,s s,,ti z 10
reclining chair urder the shady ,rees more
than policing streets or drilling
Wteo the nen are sick the food is too
rough for them 80 they nearly starve Real
II soldiers should De better fed, for certainly
the "o.ase deserve the fare.
Fopf oew aaea arrived this morning, ooe
Of whom was Mr. B:uford Hussey, the son OF
the we'll known B A. Hussey of Sumter.
Nr. 3obt Spann seems vel pleased with
Tho life IN camp
Sergt Beid may be appointed color bearer.
MRS. Aood and Mrs Carson nave large
comfortable tent ct headquarters, next TO
Ms5os Mood. Both could TIE quite satisd d
it ihss were all, but the outlook depresses
both, aod their smiles are uos 80 frequent as
Of yare they have neen beautifully treated
BY the entire Regiment sioce thei, arriv.l
The bus,ling and courteous hs. Kobn Of
the News end Conrier rece we'd BOX from
bone to-day, and most beautifully ,emem-
befec the ladies ct tie Regiment
As 70 recfuiis-let all ~ho are not 10 tbs
terrible war by al! means stag out The
s,ror Rest men have ell been sick, SOD e TOR
weeks, sea sse weak ones surely suffer more
MAJOR Moed, oor dashing surgeeo, and Capt
Carson have both been sick, out sfe vel!
DOW.
hope this letter " il no, be superauou5
If i, is NOS, shall feel e'ssl6ed, acd hope all
those ip,eres;ed in the soys wiil God enough
10 it 10 repay them for .ha perusai.
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