The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-08-12

time, which is 5:30~p. m. We have
retreat and everyone must be
dressed in his best. After retreat
we have until 8:45 p. m. to our
selves, and the time is generally
spent in singing, writing letters,
or listening to music. We have
some excellent musicians in our
troop.
It is not uncommon for the boys
to hunt water melon patches. The
other night six of the boys came
in nearly loaded down with the
juicy fruit.
At 8:45 call to quarters is
sounded and at 9:15 p. m. all
lights must be out and every one
in his tent, and we are glad to
fall asleep.
Leave Chicamauqa
June 13th-Chickamauga bat.
tlefield, Georgia, where we were
camped is a very lovely place as
it is dotted here and there with
fine. monuments. We were
camped near Snodgrass hill but
few hundred feet from the
famous Dyer house.
On June 18th as I stated we.
were given the order to pack for
our move to Santiago. On that
morning we were called at $3.50
a. m. and the rainbow it did
pour. Everything we had on and
everything packed got soaking
wet. AS soon as we got every
thing packed every man was
ordered to stand by his tent and
let same fall at given signal. A
pretty sight to see 800 tents to
fall at once; then we rolled our.
tents and strapped them to our
saddle, then given the order to
mount and we were off for our.
IL mile ride on horseback to.
Ringgold, Ga. On arriving at
Ringgold we found our cars wait
ing for us. We first unsaddled our
horses and put our saddles and
sabers in a box car then we
loaded our horses yelling ands
triking them to get them into the
car. Finally we got them all
loaded and we were marched
around to the depot and were
given cup of coffee and sand
wiches and it was heartily re-
ceived for it was getting late in
the afternoon. After getting the
wagons loaded we were marched
in to the coaches we were to ride
in. We had Pullman tourists cars
and at $3.50 p. m. we pulled out of
Ringgold.
Soldiers Cheered
We arrived at Atlanta, Ga, at
about 3 a. m. where we made a
halt of about one hour. Our next
stop was at Macon, Ga. Here the
people turned out and cheered
US; in fact all through the south
their patriotism is almost as good
as the northern people. They gave
us peaches, watermelon, grapes,
etc. and would not take a bit of
money for them. The scenery all
along the way was very swampy
and dotted with water lilies: all
along the route could be seen
Wh ole forests of turpentine
camps. l also observed along the
road a great many saw mills and
the most peculiar thing was, in
stead of the firms saving their
wood and selling it, they have an
Il" shaped brick wall about two
stories high and which is about
4OO feet from the mill itself: the
scrap wood is carried there by a
large carrying belt into fire (in-
side of brick walD which in some
places is a solid mass of flames;
we also passed through cotton
fields and they were in bloom.
This is very beautiful sight in
deed and finally we arrived at
Jasper junction, Fla, here we
connected with the plant sys-
tenn, and the most peculiar part
about these locomotives is that
they burn wood and have the
large smoke stack as you see on a
mogul engine with the exception
they have a spark arrester and
the engines are much smaller
than those of the north.
From Jasper to Tampa it is 240
miles. We left Jasper, Fla, at z
p. m. and it then being dark we
commenced TO make our beds.
Which were of mattresses and
springs, something we were not
used to.
Learn of Santiago's Fall
At High Springs, Fla, the off
lcerS were called out at about /.
p. m. to sign telegram from the
war department saying that San
tlago had fallen and we were to
pitch our tents at Lakeland, Fla,
and we arrived here on the morn
ing of the 18th.
The heat is very intense and
very uncomfortable, yet l am
glad to say that troop &c" has but
two men on the sick list out of a
number of l03 men, a pretty fair.
record.
BY the way, Clayton Taylor,
who is well known in and around