The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-13
AT CHIcKAMAUGA PARK.
Chaplain Woodward Writes of the
Situation of the Twenty-First-

Chaplain Woodward Writes of the
| Situation of the Twenty-First-
CFrom the State Journals Special Cor
respOndent)
| Chickamauga Park Ga..June 10-The
| Twenty-frst Kansas regiment could
| scarcely have Selected a better location.
W hen We halted at this point three
weeks ago, the outlook was quite unin-
wing dry leaves, rank weeds, and de-
cayed branches were soon cleared away
however and as time passes we are get
ting to feel more and more at home
our Kansas friends need not suppose
that the time drags heavily on our
hands Everybody has something to
DO. We have no drones in our hive.
w hen the boys have nothing else to do
they come up to the chapIain's tent to
inquire for a letter. We all like to get
letters Why don't the people back in
hansas write oftener? Perhaps you do
write every other day, but We would
ike to have a letter every day. Write
big, fat letters, and write one every
day Private George C Gregory, Com
pany NJ, has been selected as the mail
carrier He sent back to Mcpherson
after being assigned to this work. and
mad his bicycle sent to him. Twice 4
day he goes to Lyle with hundreds of
letters in the mail sack on his back.
and returns with a much larger load
than he carried away. How the boys
watch for the bicycle riders return
Hardly are the pigeon holes filed with
precious missives till they are emptied
into eager hands Many county pa
pers are received by the boys in certain
companies every week. We are glad to
get them If every editor would send q
bundle to the boys who enlisted from
his town, he could confer great favor
on them Our home papers get to look
like old friends to US away off down
here.
With few exceptions the boys are dis
posed to become a little sentimental as
they wander over these historic
grounds. Here almost 35 years ago the
old soldier boys were engaged in a
deadly conflict amidst flying bullets,
bursting bombs and dying shrieks. The
blue fought against the grey then, but
a few days ago a regiment from South
Carolina camped not far from the
Twenty-frst Kansas. We are constant
" on the alert for relics. MIME balls
are in greatest evidence. Everybody
wants to find one with his own eyes and
pick 1t up with his own hands A week
or more ago a second lieutenant dis
covered a dead pine tree whose trunk
for many feet from the ground was
perforated with small holes. He had
made quite a find. Securing an ak from
Quartermaster J. c. LyttIe he began TO
lay heavy blows on the big tree. But
what was his digust when after
hard half hours chopping he discovered
that a huge worm rather than a mimic
ball was responsible for the big hole
Major W. L Brown visited Lookout
mountain a few days ago, and brought
back with him as a relic of the place
where the battle above the clouds
was LOuSnL small 0l11lGL Win
BALL imbedded in II made from tree
into which the ball had been shot He
will use the maIIet in presiding over the
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge next OctO-
Der, as ne is the grand master
MahOmet may not De able to bring
the mountain to him, but he can go to
the mountains. The order is reversed
here. Musical entertainments are
brought near our tent doors sometimes
The colored people are natural musi-
Clans The other day black
how nj
paniment on a lard can He accom-
piIshed astonishing results by splitting
his voice on the edge of the can the
interior of which served as a sounding
medium
The National Young Mems Christian
association has been putting up tents
in several camps. but We have not had
our turn yet. Drum Major F. L Hux-
table. who enlisted with the band, pro-
poses to furnish us with one himself
unless other arrangements are made.
We hold our religious services out IN
der the trees. Sunday school comes at
10 O'Clock, preaching at II, and Y NJ @
a. in the late afternoon just before
dark We organized our Young Mems
Christian association, Sunday, June .,
with Lieutenant E E. Beard, president;
Private \. Galloway, vice president;
secretary; Corporal J. T Stone, office
secretary; w. H Mcdaniel, treasurer
Last Wednesday evening Rev. DR. R.
A TORY, pastor MOOdy'S church, Chi
ca go. preached for US. He was assisted
by the singing evangelist, Harry L.
Maxwell
AS far as we are able to learn we
have less serious sickness in our camp
than in any other in our section OF the
park Measles, cramps, bad colds and
so forth keep our hospital filled up but
only few have been seriously ILL No
deaths have occurred as yet, although
four or five of our boys have been very
near the cold river We attribute our
general good health to the fact that no
LIQUOR canteen has been established in
our regiment The Chattanooga Red
Cross society has been particularly kind
to US The other day the writer was at
the hospital examining the cots, blank
cts. mattresses, night shirts, etc.
donated by these ladies, when Assistant
Surgeon F. w. Turner said: Chaplain,
do you know how these came to be
sent?' No" said I. Don't the ladies'
treat all the regiments aHke?' No.
ne replied. They favor US especially
because we have no liquor sold on the
grounds and hence have no hospital
revenue coming from that source"
w E WOODWARD.
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