The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-16
READY TOC0ME BACK.
Iowa Boys at Camp Thomas Tired of
Camp Life.
GO ON DRESS PARADE.

GO ON DRESS PARADE.
The Send Iowa, the Best Among 40, 900
Justice May Return on
Furlough.
FIFTY SECOND Iowa INFANTRY Vol !
CAMP GEORGE FL. THOMAS,
CHIcKAAlAUGA PARK, GA, Aug, ii.
To The DEN1soN REVIEW
DEAR FR1ENDs:-I will endeavor to
write you about the boys inside and
out of camp here. We are having
just the weather for fevers lately, and
there is a great deal of sickness among
us. 1t has been raining off and on
ever since Governor Shaw was here.
Wednesday night it rained hard all
night. We looked like drowned rats in
the morning.
wrote you farewell letter recently
but it was a mistake. We had orders
to leave by Wednesday with Gen. Wade
for Porto Rico, but it was counter
manded; they had enough poor men so
they stopped us.
We are all ready to come home now,
because we never will get to the front,
and we are tired of cleaning up Chicka
manga Park and staying here to see
our boys die off the way they are.
Three of our boys died Monday. did
not learn what company they were
from. A corporal out of Company K
died Tuesday, August 10, from typhoid
fever. That is the company Mr. Justice
is from. He is confined to his cot
again, but is some better today.
The sick here now who are able to
get around at all, are getting furloughs
home for thirty days. | think probably
Mr.. Justice will get one. 1t would do
him good to go home for while.
Governor Shaw left Sunday for the
Iowa troops in Jacksonville, Florida.
He said we were better fixed than be
had expected to find US, with paved
streets, floors in tents and good food
and water. Yes we have, but the gov
ernor don't know what kind OF whether
we paved them in. 1t was raining half
the time. I The water we drink is boil
ed, and let stand in barrels until cool
then ice put in it. The water is taken
from a river and is so muddy we have
to put alum in to settle it.
Our food is pretty good, that is for
army food, If we only had good cooks
to cook it. We have been detailing
men out of the company to cook and
we haven't had good one but twice.
Private Gibson gave US good food and
we have another fellow in cooking now
who is also good one. We have all
given fifty cents piece to furnish a
cook and helper whom our captain is
going to hire. We had pretty good
home dinner of mashed potatoes with
milk. .roast beef, gravey, bread and
coffee.
The troops of the park had grand
review Tuesday forenoon. We left
camp at 6 a. M. for the review grounds
which were two miles away. 1t was a
nice little march but after we reached
there is when we caught it. We had
to stand at attention about all the
time. There were 40 900 troops on re-
view before General Breckenridge who
is general over all troops in Camp
Thomas now. We passed review at II
a. m. and got back to camp at l2m.
The Chattanooga Times said that the
Sind Iowa was the best regiment re-
viewed in the review. l tell you we
are all swelled up over it. We tried to
raise the roof when we received that
report.
The paper states that President Nc
Kinley is coming down to review US
soon. IT he does, it will be when the
peace treaty is signed, and then we
will go home.
We drew what clothes we needed
Monday night. We were called up at
III p. NJ, to get them to be ready to
move Wednesday morning at 9 a. M.
but it was fake. We are all equipped
now. We were also paved off for the
month of July Monday, receiving sl5.-
60. We were glad to get it because the
most of us We're broke.
| There are few troops going to
march from here to Lexington, KY, to
change camp, but of course we stay
here in Chickamauga Park to keep it
clean. Well will close, leaving me
well and happy trusting this will find
you the same. Yours truly.
VIM. j. SCoTT.
Died.
Mrs. Brown aged GA years, of Buck
Grove died ON the 18th dav of Annnst