The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-15

teri yesterday stating that the bandages
are fmperstvely needed and urging the
greatest expedition possible in forwarding
them to the regiment.
Sanitary Inspector 1,obin Is in receipt Of
a breezy letter from his brother. John NJ.
| Tobin. of Captain Stivers' cavalry troop
at Chickamagua. from which IL will be
seen that the complaints of poor grub
which Uncle Sam furnishes his volunteers
r. not confined to any one camp. Already
the soldier boys from Montana have had
to resort to foraging expeditions to get
something besides salt pork to eat. which.
taken with all the other complaints that
have been made In the different camps
where volunteer soldiers are quartered.
shows that there must be something rad
ically wrong with the commissary Depart
ment- Mr.. Tobin writes:
According to promise. i write you an
account of our trip and experience thus
far In soldiery. We arrived in camp one
week ago last Monday 9TH letter being
dated June s.. taking US seven days to
make the trip. The cause of our being so
long on the road was on account of feed
ing and watering our horses. We had a
pleasant journey. We received ovations
from the time we started till we arrived
here. The people were very patriotic all
along the line. Al a station called Gypsum,
In Kansas. we were presented with n
large silk flag. the only one they had in
the town. Through Idaho the people
seemed actually insane with patriotism. IL
we had arrived at Pueblo. Colo. on time
there would have been 10000 people at
the station to greet us. but we were sew
eral hours late and the people who had
assembled were disappointed. We have
not been receiving a full amount of ra-
tons since we got to camp and have been
only half fed. but to-day we are faring
much better. Last night some of the boys
went out foraging and brought back a
chicken. a goose and a y~earling heifer.
Besides we got 100 pounds of meat from
the commissary to-day, the first we have
had since we left Butte. Many a day we
received only two small pieces of bacon
and a biscuit for each meal. and the cause
of IL all was that the regimental quarter
master would not give II to us. for there
was plenty there. We have made up our
minds that we are not going hungry any
more as long as there are chickens and
veal running loose around here. There is
very little sickness in the troop, only one
of our men being in the hospital. and he
will be out shortly.
THE weather is very warm in the day
but rather cool I'm the night. We have be-
tween 10000 and 60.OO0 men I'm the camp.
The boys ave found a number of relics
of the late war. i found a piece of an ex-
'ploded cannon ball the other day and an
other fellow found a piece of pine with a
rifle ball embedded in the center OF IL.
One fellow found an old rife stock which
he sold for 500. There has been a report
circulated here that We would move to
Washington inside of two weeks, but we
do not credit the report. The people in
this section consider the Montana rough
riders as rough as the name implies. An
item appeared in the Chattanooga, paper
Immediately after we landed here to the
effect that We wore our hair "A foot long
and that each man had a long bowie
knife and s~ix-shooter strapped to him. and
rode but the widest kind of broncho. Re-
member me to all the boys. Yours truly.
JOHN NJ. TOBIN.'