The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-13
HOughton Department
ARMY LIFE NEAR
THE BORDER Line
Corporal McCarty Writes, Regard
ing Duty in Army in Texas

An Instructor in one of the schools
has received the following letter from
"a cousin, Corporal Mccarthy who is
serving in the army IN Texas. The
letter tells OF the life Of the soldier
and was written by request Of the
! instructor 10 read 10 ;he history class
Il VIII try and tell YOU an / can
about our camp here i'm Texas city
though / suppose you have ready many
| reports in the newspapers concerning
/ IT, We arrived in camp March > OF
/ last yeag expecting but not hoping
trouble with Mexico. though little ex-
/ pectIng 10 be Kept i'm camp near this
! length of time, and there is nothing
definite as 10 when we viii eventually
leave.
Our orders came To- leave our home
/ post, Fort Mackenzie Wyoming. very
suddenly and Unexpectedly. At the
, time so were informed we were go.
| ing 10 Texas city bu, We might as
we'll have been left in ignorance of our
= destination for no one knew where
| the city was located. Nevertheless
we soon found where il was We wld-
cd through water to our first camp that
Sunday afternoon I'm March, our band
i'm the lead playing regimental air
Happy Hcmic," spirits hieh in spite
of prospects of aa unpleasant camp.
Before TWO weeks had passed we
built o camp near the bay, an inlet
from the gulf back of Galveston. We
worked hard building and ditching the
new camp The work was done cheer
gully. everyone feeling clated over the
comm; change OF camp. We built
Kitchen. huught granite dishes for,
the company put electric lights in all
the tents ANA i'm AN made everything
as comfortable as possible under the
circumstances.
For the first few mcnths of our
camp life We took part in MANY in
;erestluc and Instructive war maneuv-
ers but as the weather became warmer
these maueuvers decreased lin fire. |
qucncv and duration In May we were |
given one weeks recreation i'm Calves
ton. We marched over about - miles
and went into camp on the Boulevard /
following around the sea wall. We !
certainly enjoyed that week bathing in |
the suf which breaks near the sen |
wall and walking about the artistcauy !
arranged streets of Galveston.
I've made the march To our camp |
back r Texas city 1T night leaving I
Galveston an six o'clock and we could |
barely push our way through the
crowds that gathered to see MS leave. |
our three bands PLAYED as out the
Eleventh Eighteenth md Twenty-sec-
onl infantry bands. These three regl-
ncnts from the sixth brigade of which
our regiment, IN. Eighteenth infantry
IS saiI 10 Dee the principal part, also
commonly known as the Fighting
soldering I'm this country and for
such a length of time. would be an
awful monotony were it not for the
outdoor sports chat are arranged. Dur
ing the summer months baseball lea
gue was formed by teams from each
reEimeul of the division. making a to-
tai of 1a teams, there being the Fourth
seventh Eleventh. Eighteenth Nine
end, Twcuty-sixth, Twenty seventh
and Twenty eigh,h regiments of in
tm'r... ono regiment -r mountain bat
terry and tho Fourth G"id artillery. TIL, I
lattor have been the object OF many
fc-re from the entire II.fciOu because