The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-10-18
The Second
Colorado Is At
Camp KeGrney
BIZ Corporal Bryan Greshom

am writing at my FIRST opportunity
since being in camp. No doubt the
readers of the Record will be inter
ested in our trip from Pueblo to Camp
! Kearney.
Three days before we finally broke
camp at Pueblo. Colo. we received the
order to pack and be ready to move,
but a few hours later an order came
hat the cars were not ready for us
Every thing was left packed except
ing our blanket rolls.
Friday morning we were out drill
ing when they blew recall. II was
/ about nine o'clock. The order was
soon around camp to roll our blankets
and be ready to move any hour. Abou,
five o'clock that evening Camp Gunter
was looking desolate.
We left the camp at $50 and
marched to the Union depot. l think
everybody in Pueblo was there 10 bid
| the Second Regiment good bye. We
left Pueblo at 9:45 p. M. on the Colo
RADIO and Southern railroad. Our first
stop was made at Trinidad about a.
N. We crossed the state line at $3.50
a. IN.
! Southern Colorado has some beau
tiful places and it certainly was
beautiful country at sunrise that
morning. The northeastern part of
New Mexico is pretty good but moth
ing like the central part. We crossed
New Mexico into Texas at a m.
Sept 29th.
Our next stop was at Dalhert, Tex.
4 There we changed to the Rock Island
cars and go up town. sure was sur
prised at the town. expected to find
fairly large town. but believe me IL
sure is dirty and a high-priced place.
From there we went across Texas in
10 New Mexixco again. The hrst sight
Of any beauty of Importance was the
Canadian river. II is fairly large riv
/ er and it sure looked good as II was
the first water we had crossed since
/ leaving Colorado.
We changed roads at Tucumcari. "
NJ Left on the FL Paso and South
western road across the southern part
IF New Mexico. Santa Rosa. NJ NJ. is
dream of a place. sure wish we
could have stopped and taken in the
town. 1t is situated in a small valley
and as you leave the town you get
good look at the whole place. no.
ticed the Mission as we were pulling
out and I wanted to get OF. the train
and go back and 20 thru it.
The remainder of the journey to FL
Paso. Texas. proved miserable riding
+ indeed. The country is barren and
hotter than any place had ever been
I in before. About six miles out of FL
Paso is an army camp, Fort Bliss is
the name. There are several thousand
soldiers stationed there. Along the
soldiers were lined up and cheered us
on our way.
We arrived in Ell Paso at 7:30 a. m.
Sunday. Sept. 30. We iayed over until
! 2 D. m. While there we were allowed
freedom and everybody took in the
town. The town itself is small but
/ nevertheless attractive. While there
Lieut. Criswell of Co. F bought tho
boys OF his command enough bananas
| to last them across the desert and
Lieut.. Ragsdale bought the company
several boxes of cigarettes. While ?
Ell Paso some of the boys went owe
( to the bridge and got look at ~
Mexico. ! was one of them. What
part we could see did not look bad.
1 We left EI Paso on the Southern
Pacific road. Along the right -ofway
for few miles out it is typicaily
Mexican atmosphere.
At Ell Paso the Red Cross society
gave the boys free lunch and also
gave them postal cards. The YIN
4 A. let all the boys take bath and
swim free of charge. That was Ger.
tainly treat because person car
sure get dirty riding on train.
! Leaving Ell paso we crossed the Rio
Grande river. have heard a great
deal about 1t and had certainly longed
to see il. In way 1t reminded me OF
a few places of the old Arkansas river
at Canon City II brought back mem
ories of the past.
At Deming. N. NJ. is a camp of
about 10000. We stopped there for a
few minutes and some of the boys
were afraid we were going to stay