Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-13

! the trenches with shovels, the remainder or
the company guarding the men doing their
work. The company continued IN relels oI
| two hours, and after hard ana laporious
work we completed the trenches Just as the
moon in all its glory made its appearance
and exposed our position 1t was the WORK
| of a moment to form the company In NE
and on hands and knees, Greatness the
bows crawled away from the point OF dan
ger When we arrived in camp we turned
| in in quick order, completely played out
with the strain on physical endurance re
quired by the work we had performed Inc
next day came the surrender. The two ar
mics were drawn up in line In front OF the
| Notifications, and again from one OF the
| batteries the signal was given that me
stars and stripes had been raised over the
| city Of Santiago de Cuba. Such sight Will
never again be seen by me- At the signal
| the bands played the national airs, the bat
| teries belched forth in terrible salutes ana
the soldiers yelled as if their lives depended
| on their shouting. Am going into Santiago
| this morning with a party of officers. we
will be mounted"
A Picture of Camp Life.
In letter to Mr.. J. W. Protor of No. 681
22d street aorthw est Corp. C. w. Gwynne
of Company A, LIST District of Columbia
Volunteers, writes as follows from near
Santiago under date of July 80:
81 hold the record of doing the longest
| trick of guard duty in the regiment, thirty
! hours, without relief; it should have been
| twenty-four hours. / was sent to the bri-
| gade hospital with nine men The men
| were relieved by nine others, but the reg
| inlent that was to send the corporal to re-
| lieve me did not have a corporal fit for
| duty that was not already assigned to his
| post, so / had to get one from our own reg
| irnent, which is also badly crippled from
| mountain fever, they call it here. Tbs LIST
| Illinois. was the regiment which was TO
! have sent the corporal, but over half of
| them either down with fever lust
getting over 1t. You need not worry about
| me- for don't think l will get it now, and
even if I do it IS not dangerous, for they
all seem to get Vell in four or five days.
| cont know how l kept awake SO long, I'M
| less it was from being amid 80 much suffer
| ing, which gets to my nerve; but the worst
| OF it was, after 1 got OFF l had 10 walk
about two miles to battle, and, of course, L
changed my clothes and washed my soiled
ones, for never carry any dirty clothes
with me-
Pants for n Pillow.
when 1 did go to bed you can bet I
slept even If did use my pants for pill
low. I forgot to mention that friend of
| mine from our regiment is head of the COM
missary and kitchen there. The first thing
he gave me was what I thought was fresh
milk, but it proved to be condensed, with
ice cracked up in 1t. oh, but 1t tasted good.
Then he gave me a dinner of fresh beef
steak, fresh bread, fine coffee, plenty OF
sugar, milk, fried potatoes and a stew of
canned beef and onions. Quite a dinner. If
1 could have gone to sleep at night / would
not have cared If they had kept me there
thirty hours more, for ne gave me my
meals the whole time was there. But we
are getting plenty to eat in our own camp
now-fresh beef and fresh bread-so there
is no danger of our going hungry If we can
get it cooked, and / am making love to my
cook, for he knows his business. / thought
would be on my way home before now,
but it looks as if We will stay here for some
time yet.
Il can picture you in my mind ina ginning
my being sick with yellow fever, starving.
lying in mud hole with Spaniards shoot
ing at me every minute. but don't believe
q word of such rot, for the truth is I am
in the best of health, and there is no yellow
fever here, or typhoid fever, either, and 1t
don't rain all the time, only once or twice
q day, and we have more than we can eat,
the only trouble being to cook it. get the
water, a comrade gets the wood and an
other cooks For breakfast we had beef
steak, fried potatoes and onions one
quart and a half of coffee, sugar and con-
densed milk-a regular DelInonico's break
fast. Oh, yes, bareback, forgot to men,
ton.
Thinks It's HOmesiclx Fever.
1.-THE fever we are having here the boys
call mountain fever, but think 1t is home
sick fever, for the ones that fret the most