New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-12
titles FOUGHT OER AGAIN.
THE SICK ATTACK IN DREAMS AND ih''
WELL. CAN'T FORGET.
SOME IMPRESSIONS CLEANED ANON" I'M
ENTY- FIRST REGIMENTS coNvALESchNIS
or Ell CANEY AND TIE WAY
THINGS STRIKE THE RE
TURNED SOLDIERS.

TURNED SOLDIERS.
e ,,,i,or,nod men were summing themselves
On the steps Of the list Regiment armory !eS'eio3
afternoon wi IN an officer Of the reSinehi p"9'
ono ~ tho men. a gaunt young fellow. whose "p-
noo-arce gave unmistakable signs OF Suie'i"s
promptly and salutcu' -, DO, = cou-
Don't yer know yer on furioush'
,o, "yybat are yer salutin fer
say YOU" replied the polite private o"t ,,
soldier. always n solHler' an" W
for You to remember. o,,oy
Tho eaunt v,ung man kicked a passing HV
cnr What makes me mad ne ao"eo' 49,,
follows who have gone through hard siege WE" "
whole lot of credit talk Ike scnoo!ooSS' nv
roor = dan,s,gbt TOO much talking since we came
back. anyway. ,,. to-
The Interior Of the arnory was prac'''''' u"
so-,od Yesterday and the silence there WAS only
broken when an occasional soldier VINO hdu U'c" ""
duty At A comrades funeral came IN To defoS'' HIS
rife This done. he usually joined the othe'S ." '"
sidewalk where conversation was cariie' WI ~ Wv
tones , !,
IT'S no use trying to PARTICIPANTS" said one OF
tho mon when asked 10 tel! his story OF the pat
ties The thing mas been pretty well threshed
out now At FL Caney we started OUT aoout :"
O'Clock IN the morning on tangled roadway 'h''A
with chapparal The sharpshooters pick'd OH our
men like sheep and apart from the suffering IN inc
trenches suppose most of the men will remember
a
we had been allowed TO return the fire it woudh
have been so bad but We could hear the ping ana
see the fellows dropping down. not knowing VINO
would go next: and there we were tied hani ana
foot to speak.
II don't suppose half the bravery Of the 'niggers
will ever be told. one Of the grttiest things saw
was when a big black fellow was shot in the left
wrist He raised up the other arm and shook MS
fist AT the Spanish trenches calling out: say On
YOU that was Il d-n good shot saw another
poor colored fellow go UP 10 wounded Spaniard
ana offer him n drink from his cant"en AZ ne
did so the Spaniard blazed away at him. and ne was
so close that 1t Amos; took his head OF But that
devil went TO glory in about as perforated state
as YOU can well imagine. The bayonets and his
friends rifles do the work. The whole thing was
so brutal that It keeps awake nights when get
to thinking Ct IL.
ITS peculiar how the first fire affects some men.
continued the private There was one fellow on
my right who told me that when he heard the s'z2
of the first shell it all he could do 10 keep from
dropping his gun and crouchng down with his
hands on his knees. He used to catch in ban
team and the sound OF the projectilc made him
think he taking them hot of the bat
Yesterday was the Sunday that some OF thu
men have spent ut home since the war began, ana
that fact, combined with the pleasant weather, had
a good effect the convalescents. With most OF
the men, however recovery is slow and uncertain
lar effect In most OF the cases. and the 20
through their experiences and again In
the sick room.
MY boy is hardly able to speak a word unc
ordinary conditions" said the mother OF one sick
soldier yesterday. when ask him a question
he draws in his speech and wanders from one
thing 10 another in an aimless haphazard fashion.
But when he gets delirous his words flow Ike oil.
He goes through the whole psntomime Of the war.
Last night he thought he at FL Caney again.
That's him" he said that's the fellow that's do
ing the damage and he made jump for his bed
post thinking 1t was "A Spanish sharpshooter'
The men who under doctors treatment.
with strict diet prescribed. also have their
troubles.
1T wasn't bad at MOntauk." walled one Of
them yesterday. MIX and infants food are all
right when there's nothing else In sight. But here
] get to New-YOrk ana board an elevated train.
The first thing ! see ~ a picture OF pickles that
fairly sets my teeth on edge That's enough to
start appetite In who's been dining at
Demonico's. let alone diet patient. Further down
the car there was picture OF bread Ike your
mother used TO bake and pretty girl mixing a
salad. But the sign. Too good for bread with "A
cut Of a big chocolate cake. sOrter makes you re-
member the bilious things that the girls used to
load us up al Camp Black. though and then a
remembers that there are worse things than
infants food after all