The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19

ed the truth about the matter and
will not go beyond their private CORE
spondence for proof
one thing about it all to be regretted
is that some of the officers of the Four
teenth regiment, who seem to have
thought the complaint in some way re-
flected on Col. Van Duzee, deprecated
the publication, as is evident from the
following: 80
Headquarters Third Brigade, Second iu-
VISION, First Army Corps Camp G orge ii.
1s9S.-Edi;or ally GIob e: In vrnr H.
sue of the June there appears tvs arr q es
containing cent what puIports to be, a general
regiment They are absolutely false acd nor
worthy of the consideration of fntelligs mt peo-
PIE: we nave undoubtedly bsen subjected to
TO TO, learn, but no one is starving and no one
VIII starve. 1t would be impossible fer so
large body of inexperienced men to take the
nsiq as soldlers from the walks OF civil ia
WITHOUT more or less confusion and we OK
pecteo Just what we have received This
sta'e o5 minnesota does not owe us any n m
ey ana throughout the entire time we were
at nome treated US more than fairly Gov
Clough did everything for US that couI1 hays
s zen i zone. and sent us away amply provided
LOT IN every respect. We were given a great
zeal more than many states gave their man
and our greatest inconvenience has beef
t to 6og ignorance on the part of the
10 now TO make the most of what we had
believe bhe officers of this regiment % be
as competent and as faithful to their tr1lst &C
any, and | know they are doing their Re =
The number of cases of Illness from ali
causes is remarkably small and the g. nsral
comment Is that the boys from Minnesota ere
husky looking lot
We were ordered to form for review on Sat
urday Just after returning from drill. and
during the hottest part of the day. and 10
one fell out, although the surgeons followed
me reg ment for several mics with a wagon
10 carry Tor any who were unable to COM
plete the march. think, in justice u tie
Ut
ports should not be published and | would
request that you refrain from Grating such
widespread and unjust criticism of those who
are dong their best to serve our country in
her time of need.
co -Charles A. Van Duzee
colonel Fourteenth Minnesota Vo GERS.
Col. Van Duzee may be laboring IN
der the impression that the commune
cation reflected on him, or some mem
bers OF his staff. But it doesn't If the
men in the Fourteenth were the only
oGes to complain of food il might be
Inherent The same complaint went lip
at the time from the Illinois men and
those CT other stat S al Camp Thomas.
The blame, if there was any, was
cliarg cable to the government, not TO
Col Van Duzee or his men, and the
government may have been doing the
best it could at the time.
SO far as refusing to pint communi-
cations, If there were only one from
Camp Thomas, the ACCESSIBILITY of
throwing it away might he considered
But as there are from 200 TO possibly 500
letters day conf. g from Camp Them
as from the fourteenth regiment toys
to their homes in Minnesota, it would
not take long for any news relating
to their welfare to spread throughout
the state.
a few days later there was a change
III conditions at Camp Thomas, AMI
since then there has been no complaint.
Minnesota newsFapers are not the only
ones that say the rations at the camp
are now all right.
The G o b e felt in publishing the
communication, that it WIS not reflect
ing in any way on Col Van Duzee or
any man il his entire regiment, nor
does it now think that the publicity of
the needs of any of the men at Camp
Thomas is a mat ter that should be sup
pressed. Neither does it believe that
the act of writing a letter. such as the
one published, and which in no way
reflected on the superior officers. is a
reprehensible act on that part of any
soldier, If it were based on fac.s.
- Lieut.. Caswell, of the Long Prairie
company which was the one speci-
fically referred to, was in st. Paul yes
terday. and called at The G o b e office
to try and learn the names of TIE men
who sent the communication. But
Lie ut. Caswel smiled when he asked
FIR the-inf 1rmatiop, for he is newspa-
Ter man enough to know there are sonic
things which a newspaper will not
make known, end this was one Of item.