The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-03-01

brang oop that dlm poolit scrape
agin."
We staid at that camp for about
two months, doing camp and picket
duty and drilling both in company
and squadron drill.
1t was here the measles broke out
and many of the men were sent to
the hospital, and some got off home.
Some died-John Blake and Sea-
berry Woolbright of our company,
and Others were discharged on &C
count of their health. Before the
measles got through the mumps set
in and | had a swollen and sore Jaw
for several days, but got through all
right. "Uncle Dickcy" Woodruff,
Of the infantry, would come over to
our camp and hold prayer meeting
about once. of twice week. He
generally got good attendance. The
boys knew and called him "Parson'
Woodruff.
Some of the pickets brought into
camp cap she'll that had been fired
from the gun boats and failed to
burst. 1t was one of those long
comical fellows with cap on the point,
and y kr working at itsome time got
the Up ont and poured the powder
out. as they thought, aud then one of
Capt Spearman's men stuck fire into
it and it exploded, mangling the leg
of one of his men so as to necessitate
amputation. Part of it crippled
horse so as to render it useless and
another fragment passed through our
Orderly Sergeant, John r. Smiths
tent and passing just over the seat
he had left only moment before to
attend to some other business, and
going nearly quarter of a mile cut
off a limb from pine tree as large
as a mans arm. This was the first
serious accident that happened in our
camp so far as l can remember.
Horse racing was pastime much
enjoyed by the boys. We had some
good horses in the command, and
many dollars would sometimes change
hands as the result of race. Aud
more than this / must and do confess
that the men were never very par
ticular what day of the week it was
when race was run. The Sabbath
was to us no more than any other
day, except as We saw its observance
in somebody who was determed to
to keep it as sacredly as possible.
OF this class of men / am glad to
say we had several. Their influence
on the more reckless portion is some
thing for which I am very thankful
today.
1t was commonly the case that our
inspections came off at 9 o'clock on
Sabbath morning. Were it not for
that the day was just as other days
so far as the duty Of a soldier was
concerned, and it received no other
official recognition.
While we were at Camp Walsh,
pneumonia, Tor as we would call it
today grippe broke out among the
men and many of them died. Es-
pecially was it severe among the IN
fantry who were camped near US,
Scarcely day passed that corpse
was not sent home for burial. Some
times severe case would attack
man and do its work before the
patient could be removed to the hos
pital at Adams Run. I remember a
case in the infantry camp but don't
remember the mans name. 1t was
in one of the Spartanburg companies
( think. Anyway, the man took
violently sick. He had congestive
chill, and poor fellow, he didn't sur
vive it. He died in less than two
hours. Jim McCulloch was there
and saw how soon the man was taken
off without warning or preparation,
so far as outward appearances went
That night Jim took sick-had what
he thought chill. He was lying
between Wesley McKown and my
| self. I got nm and nut all the saddle