The age-herald., 1898-07-20
GENERAL LEE VS.
 GENERAL KEIFER They Are Still Warning Oyer Command
 ing First Brigade. THIRD BRIGADE EXPECTED At Miami, For Which Supplies Arc
 Now Arriving. A SUNDAY OF CAMP LIFE IL Is the Soldiers Only Holiday, and Gladly it is Wecomed-Serices By the Chap lain Supplant the Tiresome.DrlIs
 Camp Chatterbox.
X SUNDAY OF CAMP LIFE
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

Bureau of The Age-Herald, at Colonel Higdon's Headquarters, Camp First Ala bama Volunteers, Miami, Fla, July 19.- Major General Lee wants the first brigade here commanded &y General Wheaton, to be moved to Jacksonville so as to come under his immediate supervision. Major General Keller, in command of this diyis- ion, desires to keep it intact and out of Lees way.
 Where such a state of affairs exists there officers reported this camp regarding sanitary and water arrangements as noth- ing short of miserable. General Keller has been at his wits end for several days to offset this report and is backed in his ef- forts by Flagler.
 It is fair to say in this connection that the regimental surgeons and officers have not altogether agreed with General Lees men. The surgeons claim that with proper care the camp is not so bad and the com manding officers base their arguments on the ground that Miami is too small for immortality and that as consequence the men are more easily disciplined.
 How this war over a1 camp site is going to end cannot be speculated upon. It is
 
 upon General Lees efforts for the time being. Notwithstanding this it is also known that the railroad has been asked for eighty passenger cars (enough to transport a brigade) and that more than twenty of these are in the yards already.
 There are evident preparations for a new brigade Supplies of various kinds are in the different departments marked .'Third brigade coming"
 There are many men who should possess inside information that assert that should the war be continued there will be no movement of troops from here until they are needed at the front. One of them in talking of this matter said:
 "Major-General Keller is a politician. Not only that, but he is an Ohioan He was speaker of the Forty-seventh congress and stands close to Hanna and Mckinley. Now if Keller should not have slice of the glory out of this war, who should?"
 This gentleman also expressed the opin- ion that Keller was slated for governor general of Porto Rico if the conquest of that island should ever become a reality
 Sunday of Camp Life
 "A Sunday of camp life Is, in g. measure, a cessation of the grinding routine which quickly transforms a man into machine. There is the usual reveille in the morning. When drill hour comes the entire regiment is marched in front of regimental head quarters where services are held by the chaplain. Sunday is written on soldiers face-it is his only holiday except when he is so unfortunate as to be sent to the hos pital. Last Sunday was unusually quiet. The rain ceased, the sun all but blazed upon the white sand. The men lounged about in the shade of the palms, and there was not even an alteration with the ne- gro element to break the stiffness.
 At o'clock the First Alabama regiment stretched about Colonel Higdon's headquar- ters. Song books were handed the men whose voices resounded for miles in soul- inspiring hymn. This ended, the stiffness again closed about, being distributed only by the hum of voices repeating in unison the Lords prayer
 lain Fitzsimmons' remarks. It was plain, yet pretty simple story that he drew from his subject. The brave, courageous private, he said, should be chosen for this work in times of danger. Not the man who saw form every minute in the danc- ing moonlight. He brought the line of thought on down to the corps in an intelli- gent and forceful manner, giving several apt illustrations to his points. One was his experience during the miners riots in Birmingham, where a lot of sentinels kept the army the qui vive all night by con- tinually discharging their guns at imagin- ary figures.
 Many places of worship have been thrown together in Miami just as the numerous lemonade stands. At these services are held almost every hour in the day The soldiers attend in large numbers Their finer natures find vent in the gentle re- ligous hymns. Then his holiday is needed. With the wonderful sound of taps he slum- bers and when the bugers rubbing their eyes in early morning sound reveille soldier life begins anew for another six days.