The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-15
THE TWELFTH Is KICKING.
NOT ASoUr ROOD on oLOTHES BUT
ABOUT REWsPAPER LIES.

"
A Dsrsn HEsn. HARE ana PIT, Csms Up usre 20
oct Rsoruits and sweep Away ths Rubsish
Abous suReFInE asa nl-Treataent At
ChiekanauEa-AehinR ts Get Inte ihe F1eld.
w are just an even dozen from the Dandy
DoEenth' at C~hiokamaugA," said Corporal X.
Breroton OF Company A, Twelfth Regiment
The Corporal referred to himself and his eleven
comrades, who are In this city under COM
mAnd OF Lieuts. Pilot and Bernhard to take
400 recruits for the Twelfth down TO Camp
Thomas. Because Of como delay In securing en-
listment papers from Albany, the recruiting
could not begin yesterday, and the three cor
porals and=nine privRtes In tho detail had q
day of duty. Several Of them returned to the
Twelfth'S armory last night to see IL thors was
not q chance TO do something. Strange a. It
may seem, they wore apparently In q hurry to
get through with tho work Of recruiting and
ret of to camp again.
Now, that docsn't look az IL I was an
omaolAtod invalid. does III" asked Corporal
Broreton, after he had put mp a 2~5-pound weight
and hold II there for several seconds without .
tremor.
~ couldn't do that he continued, 'betoreI
went to war. Tho sottinR-up drill every morn
ing before breakfast, living ins the open air,
plenty of food. and going to bed carly are re-
sponsible for II. I never was In better health
in my life"
Ho was as straight az an arrow. and az
brown and rugged as an Indian, and his oom-
rades wero all In the Same ut condition.
TITS q shame for the papers, or some of them,
to misrepresont things as they do, and print q
lot OF stun about our not having enough to eat,
said another man Of the detail. "Thoy don't
tell what wo do have, but howl about q lot OF
things that we don't have and don't want be-
cause ue want to live long enough to sec the
Bpaniards. In the morning We have q full quart
of coffee, with rico or honiny, with all the fresh
bread We want. That's enough, even II 1t In
put on top Of ten minutes Of setting up whom
we have big appetites on account OF the exer-
else. For an appetizer for dinner we get an
hour and q half of extended order drill and an
hour of the manual, or else We go into a sham
battle. Either way wo arc hungry by noon,
and then We get n generous allo OF soup
with real beans or peas in 1t, fresh boef boiled
and sometimes in steaks, with our bread, and
moro coReo II We want II. Jhen in tho after
noon there 10 q brigade or division drill, or . re.
view. and after an hour's.rast we get supper
bread and coffee and any little limerick of o
thing that the cook has q mind to fix up for US.
That's the regular fare and no one finds fault
with It at Chickamauga. It's too bad that tho
folks up here are not suited. OF course. we can
| get more of q vuriety by swapping things off
on the Government, such as a lot of crackers for
moro flour or vegetables. Then with the ex-
ira -four the cook will make mullins. And then
there are the sand mon who have licenses
to come into camp. At first the hucksters used
to bring ice cream and lemonade and pies, but
Gen. Brooke stopped all that. Now only the
sandwich men can get in, and they mustn't sell
anything but ham and chicken. Tho sand
wiches are 5 cents apiece and are about twice
az large and two or three hundred times as
-
much salt pork. for II isn't good for us down
there"
That's right, what he's telling You about
the food" interrupted Private Richardson OF
Company E. I'VE not only have enough to eat,
but enough for the dogs, and there are almost
as many dogs in the Twelfth's camp as theFo arc
men. Every company has enough mascots to
start Q bench show. There's ono dog there
with the lett ers U. g. branded on his side. He
doesn't belong TO any particular company but
just hangs around the guArdhouso and cheers
mp the boys that get run in. We arc just al
we'll Off on clothing as we arc on food. For si1
cents We can buy from the Government Just AT
good q pair OF socks as you got here two pair
for q quarter. Good. comfortable, marching
shoes are Sl.25 a pair, and q suit of light I'M
derclothing Just right for tho climate cost
$1.O5.
"Thon there's the canteen. That's tho great
est institution In camp. but you can get bu
three glasses of beer at ono time, whether yol
want them all for yourself or want to treat you
friends. That's the rule of tho ~canteen. Scr
Reant Murray made 1t, 1 think, because ono mai
would 60 and buy the beers for a dozen NOR,
outside, just the Same as a messenger boy ii
the line at q box office waiting to SCOOP all tn,
best seats at a show while a lot moro stand be
hind him and kick. The beer Is only 5 cents
glass and the collar isn't too deep.
Another thing that tho papers have lie,
about is tho sickness. Ono day one of then
said that the Twelfth Regiment had seventy
five men laid up in tho hospital. There wer
not twenty-five In there. But for tho sake of
sensation they counted in every man who re
sponded TO the sick call In the morning an,
then went on duty after getting a drop of med
cine. Any one would think that tho army wa
made up of a lot Of winners aching for syn
pathy. The World and the Herald arc. tn
worst. The men don't like it. for they kno,
that their folks worry about what they read
whether IL ID true or not"
For recreation" said Private Bartlett, Nv
go in swimming and have concerts in the con
pany streets before taps. Every company ha
its quartet. But 1t isn't . question Of food G
I fun. The Twelfth Regiment went away froI
Columbus avenue to fight, and that's what W
5 want to do. We are in the game for the flnisl
!, and the sooner we begin to fire ball cartridg
the better VIC will like it."
I The enlisted men in tho squad detailed t
4, como here after recruits arc: Corporals !
Bererton, Rooney and Van Rensselaer, an
PrivateB r. Jacobs, A. @. Sicklos. J. P. Cur
nlnRham, Fred Richardson. J. j. Davis, T.
a Edwards, G. r. Bartlett, Henry Hiscock and ]
0 L. Hornbrook.
z7TH MEN OFF ron FORT ADAM,