Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-01
At CHlCKAMAUGA.
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themselves with the proper under
clothing and. today. when the sun was
getting in its work in good shape even
the blouses were thrown aside as the
men attempted to keep cool Ihe
weather here has made the men think
they are passing through the summer
months while in dream. At times the
| thermometer has registered over 20 in
the shade.
The men who have been doing guard
duty have been assigned the coolest
places possible and until they are hard
ened to the climate no objection will be
made during the day time If the men do
not pace back and forth over the guard
Illness While on duty, but instead rest
in the shade of some tree. The men
are now finding their campaign hats
lust the proper thing to shade their
| faces. Some of the men are already
| beginning to become bronZed and II
| there was a change in the appearance
| or the men NnIIe IN 1OSl IoNtI5 lHtIt
is a still more marked change at the
present time. Should the men be sta
toned here much longer and then be
returned home but very few would be
recognized by their mothers
Today the men are in first class con-
diton. There are a few who are sick
but this illness is due wholly to indi-
gestion. The young women who threw
boxes of pastry and fruit on the train
for the boys may have had no hard
feelings against the men on the train
but the result of their kindness has
been 10 lay some of the men up. A few
days camp fare ana treatment by the
hospital department Will place these
men on their feet again. There is com
parativcly little trouble on account of
water. The men who came IN the
Maine regiment have received good
training by drinking water from the
kennebec river. The men in the Lew
iston and Auburn companies have re-
ceived the best training of all for they
have been accustomed to have wood
pulp With their water and are now in
a condition not to be phased by any
thing in the shape Of water.
The list Regiment is in the best con-
diton of any i'll the camp. There is
not a man who is not equipped in the
best manner possible and the arrival OF
the mon in camp was a source Of
Wondcrmcnt to the other companies
No sooner had the men put in an ap-
Icarance than one Maine man who was
in another regiment began to cheer.
| This cheer was caught up by the other
men in the camp and in a moment the
/ boys from Maine had been given the
best sendoff that they have received AT
any time since they started.
| on" of the first things that the boys
did when becoming fairly settled was
to ask for their mail and many 4 man
received letters from people whom ne
supposed had forgotten him. a few
/ did not receive mail and bluer set of
men you never saw than these
y good many Of the men are very
! anxious even as early as this To start
| for Tampa. They now see that the
/ climate which the majority We're
| dleading more than even bullets is not
So very terrible ana that they viii not
suffer so very much on account of it.
Tn" arrival into camp was With the
25d Iowa and the "a Arkansas In
| fantry and as we had come a part Of
the way with these men We had all
| had a fellow feeling for each other
especially SO since some of these men
were from Maine.
one of the beauties of having 50
many mon in the camp is that almost
every trade is represented. The result
J is that if any little job is necessary 70
be done there is some man in the com
pany Who will be able to do it,
Tonight the mon are fairly in camp,
the tents having been pitched during
the day. The scene that is presented
is something unusual, and beautiful
beyond description. Almost as far as
one can see there are nothing but
tent tops. by night in place Of the
camp fires. for it seems thai these will
not be needed here, the men have the
| light of the moon and If Post Powers
was ever beautiful by moonlight, the
camp in which the men are now settled
is douhly so.
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