The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-05-26
where the crime was committed. Mrs.
OFT was woman of quiet and kindly
disposition. She was one of family
that no traits of bad disposition could
be found.
THE SOLDIER BOYS.
What they saw on their Journey
to the Southern Camp Ground.

IHc SULOlEA BUYS.
What they saw on their Journey
to the Southern Camp Ground.
Clarence March, son of Thos. March
of Paxton, is member of Co. II, 18th
Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer In
fantry, now stationed at Chick
amaugua. Mr.. March has written The
GAZETTE an interesting letter of the
journey of his regiment from Camp
Ramsey, st. Paul, to the camping
grounds at Chickamaugua.
Mr.. March says that the 18th
Regiment left for St. Paul for the
south on May 18th, the train being
divided into three sections, four COM
panies in each section. At Albert Lea
the citizens of that town treated the
boys to hot coffee, and at Rockford,
Iowa, an immense crowd was at the
train to bid the boys God speed on
their mission. 1t was 9 p. N. wher the
train left Rockford, and the boys took
to their berths on the sleeping cars.
When they woke up on the morning
of the 18th they were in Burlington,
and all that forenoon they travelled
along the banks of the Mississippi. In
Missouri they travelled through
swampy lands, seeing numerous gar
dens with peas eight inches high, let
tuce, radishes and onions big enough
to eat. Potatoes we're 10 inches high.
Timber is plentiful and grass is scarce,
and old fields were then covered with
water.
At Hannibal, Mo-, a city of about
$4,000 people, with street cars and
superb Union depot, the people gave
the boys hot coffee. The next stopping
place was Louisiana, Mo-, where the
boys secured a glimpse of lumber
RATS and floating houses, and wit
messed steam boat pushing four
barges of coal up the river. which is
about half a mile wide at that point.
At Clarkyille the colored people of the
town, 'all the fat coons," as Mr..
March is pleased to call them, waved
the boys farwell. At Elssbury an
other big crowd greeted the trains.
Nearing St. Louis the boys passed
through a lovely country, and saw
numerous orchards, red clover knee
high and in blossom, and as they
pulled into the metropolis of the
middle United States every whistle in
the town was pulled in glorious vel
come and patriotism. Dinner was
served there, after which the trains
continued on their journey south, 60
ing through Waterloo, ILL.,, and the
beautiful country tributary. with nat
ural woods and green fields, snd some
of the grain headed out. Going over
the Mobile & Ohio to Cairo, ILL.,, they
stopped at Red Bud, where they we're
heartily greeted. In the coal districts
of Sharta, ILL.,, Mr.. March observed
that the people seemed to be of poor
class, buildings old and nearly fallen
to pieces. At Cairo the train was
pulled across the Ohio river in steam
boat, six cars at time. During the
night before their arrival in Cairo, it
took nine hours for the train to 90 60
miles, owing to the train having been
stalled on grade for one hour, and
then the engine breaking.
In Kentucky wheat is headed out
and occasionally corn three inches
high is seen. The writer thinks Ten
nessee lovely country, a number of
small saw mills in nearly every town.
Strawberries are plentiful. At Jackson
the magnolia trees are in blossom, the
flower being about as large as din
ner plate, and having a fragrant odor.
In Mississippi the boys found it hot
and dry At Corinth, Mr.. March was
shown the place where Capt. Rogers
fell ir the siege of that city, and the
breast works that were thrown up at
that time.
The train arrived in Chattanooga at
four o'clock, Thursday morning, and
from there the boys secured their first
glimpse of Lookout Mountain. Troops
we're coming in from Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota and the
Dakotas almost every hour.
State Flower
and San Malo cigars to be had all ov-