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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of In Camp with L Company, by George W. Petty
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-Title: In Camp with L Company
-       Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
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-Author: George W. Petty
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-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN CAMP WITH L COMPANY ***
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-
-[Illustration: "STARTS US ON OUR JOURNEY AND THE BEGINNING OF OUR
-LITTLE WORLD OF WARFARE."]
-
-
-
-
- IN CAMP WITH
-
- L COMPANY
-
- [Illustration]
-
- Second Regiment
-
- New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
-
- [Illustration]
-
- BY
-
- CORPORAL GEORGE W. PETTY
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
- WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO.
- PRINTERS
- NEW YORK AND ALBANY
-
-
-
-
-To the officers, and the men in the ranks, of my company, and to the
-memory of departed comrades, this book is respectfully dedicated.
-
- The Author
-
-
-
-
- "God of all nations! Sovereign Lord!
- In Thy dread name we draw the sword
- We lift the starry flag on high
- That fills with light our stormy sky."
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-In writing this book it has not been my purpose to compile a history
-of our Company, which would necessitate the gathering together of its
-records, which of themselves would be dry and uninteresting to the
-average reader, but such a narrative as would give to our friends a
-wider knowledge of our everyday life while in the service, and to my
-comrades that feeling of kinship so dear to the soldier's heart.
-
-
-
-
-PART FIRST
-
-
-
-
-THE MUSTERING
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Company L was organized and mustered into the State service June
-22, 1893, and assigned as the 11th company of the Second Regiment
-with headquarters at Paterson, with the following officers: Addison
-Ely, Captain; Wilkin Bookstaver, First Lieutenant; Joseph J. Blake,
-Second Lieutenant. Lieutenant Bookstaver resigned in February, 1896,
-Lieutenant Blake was promoted to First Lieutenant and First Sergeant
-Robert A. Brunner was promoted to Second Lieutenant. From its first
-season at rifle practice the Company was a decided factor in the
-making up of the State records; the first year, out of fifty-six
-companies it stood sixth, in 1895 it was fourth and in 1897 second
-on the list with ten sharpshooters and fifty-eight marksmen, pushing
-Company C of Paterson hard for first honors, that company having twelve
-sharpshooters and sixty marksmen. A match was arranged in the fall of
-'97 between the companies composing the Second Battalion, E, F, G and
-L, ten men constituting a team; this match we won handily.
-
-Matches between the squads proved exciting and interesting, the prize
-being a silver loving cup donated by Lieutenant Brunner. Our range
-being on the meadows not only insured safety, but was actually one of
-the best ranges used by any Company in the State. Our discipline was
-excellent and our annual inspection invariably showed 100 per cent.
-The armory was built during the winter of 1896-7, and was formally
-opened in March, 1897, with a grand fair which was honored by a visit
-of Governor Griggs and a large number of military and civic officers.
-It cost about $20,000, and contains, besides a large drill-room, a well
-appointed stage, meeting rooms and living apartments.
-
-During the winter of 1897-8 particular attention was given to
-Regimental, Battalion and Company drills in extended order and when
-spring opened and the mutterings of war were heard, the Company had
-been drilled quite thoroughly in battle exercises, and an enthusiasm
-had been instilled, so that every man was on his mettle. It was
-natural, then, that when the orders came the Company was enabled to
-turn out a larger percentage of National Guardsmen than any other
-Company in the regiment. The personnel of the entire body insured an
-honorable mention in the State annals. Our officers were capable and
-well liked; and the non-commissioned officers, that body of men in our
-armies which are the fighting unit, were a potent factor in our make
-up. How well these officers and subs did their duty the records of
-details, escorts, provost guards, etc., will show.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-April 30, 1898, the orders we had been expecting arrived and from
-this time on a nervous excitement prevailed in the armory and spread
-for miles around. Final visits were made; business affairs wound up;
-underclothing bought, and when Sunday evening arrived it found us all
-ready to start. During the night the telegraph ticked off the rumors
-of the battle in Manila harbor, and at dawn all the country was aflame
-with patriotism and eager to know the facts. Every hour brought fresh
-tidings of that grand victory and it was with lighter hearts and more
-cheerful faces that we set about our final task.
-
-Everywhere now was bustle and excitement, but it was freely predicted
-that we would not get further than Sea Girt, and we heard this repeated
-so often that we began to be rather anxious to be off, as if afraid the
-war would end before we had fairly got in it. The time to don our war
-togs came at last; mothers, sisters and sweethearts were given final
-injunctions not to worry, just as if we expected they would obey, and
-then we repaired to the armory, where the excitement was at fever heat
-and the crowd of sightseers outside pushed and swayed, the boys were
-impatient to be off. The clear notes of the bugle sound the assembly.
-The command to fall in is given. The drill-room is hushed, but the
-excitement is still there. Impatient commands are given and finally the
-sharp command, "March!" starts us on our journey and the beginning of
-our little world of warfare.
-
-But bedlam had broken loose. Steadily we marched out of the doorway,
-only to face a great crowd. Our feelings were various at this time, I
-doubt not. Personally I wanted to get away from that crowd and felt
-angry that they should be cheering so, not daring to look aside, but
-deaf to all the shouts of encouragement. I was fully realizing the
-fact that it was not such a fine thing to leave home and friends for
-a perilous two years of strife and bloodshed. Finally reaching the
-station by a circuitous route, we waited fully an hour for the train.
-This was extremely trying to us, but amid an outburst of cheers we
-boarded it bound for camp, and now our spirits rose, for we were off,
-and instead of looking behind it was forward, and we determined then
-and there to make the best of everything as we found it, and that duty
-in its plainest, boldest light lay before us, and now was the time
-to begin. Our officers and non-coms were hurrying through the cars,
-making up lists, detailing guards, making assignments. Every engine we
-passed saluted us with deafening screeches; factory, street and doorway
-contributed their share of waving handkerchiefs and cheering crowds,
-the streets of Newark near the station were packed with people, and so
-the patriotism followed us all the way to Sea Girt, which was reached
-at four in the evening.
-
-Immediately disembarking, we formed rapidly and marched to the camp
-grounds, passing in review before the Governor. This was my first view
-of the War Man of our State. Standing upon a horse block in front of
-the White House with uncovered head and a sober, serious countenance,
-Governor Voorhees impressed me with the belief that he, at least, felt
-the full responsibility of his position. Well and nobly did he fill
-it. From Trenton he brought his headquarters to Sea Girt and there he
-stayed until he saw the last regiment depart for the south, having
-ceaselessly urged forward equipments, personally looked after the
-comfort of the men, taken a deep and thoughtful interest in all our
-surroundings, and finally bid us Godspeed upon our journey, a loyal,
-devout patriot.
-
-As we marched to our streets ominous mutterings and black storm clouds
-in the west warned us to get sheltered as quickly as possible; and at
-the word, ranks were broken and a wild scramble for tents began; but we
-were soon roused out again to get sacks of straw to sleep upon. This
-news was comforting, for the fresh green sod, still moist from recent
-rains, was anything but inviting. The sacks were intended for two
-battalions. Our battalion was to have had cots. There was considerable
-confusion and orders got mixed, so we sailed in with the other fellows
-to get sacks. These were stored at the rear of the mess houses about
-200 yards back of the camp. Eight hundred men got the order at the same
-time and all made a dash for the pile. The sacks were about seven feet
-long and it was a most ludicrous spectacle to see the men dragging
-these clumsy things after them. The field seemed alive with great brown
-ants crawling after each man. The boys enjoyed the fun greatly. Guards
-were being posted and we soon made ready for the night. While the
-blankets were being issued it commenced to rain; and after eating the
-last crust of bread we had brought from home, we turned in and slept
-soundly.
-
-Tuesday we received cots, while those tents which could boast of floors
-were given the sacks.
-
-The rations or "grub" served the first day consisted of a small piece
-of steak and a whole loaf of bread. The bread broken in half with the
-meat between would make a home made sandwich that could be eaten on
-the installment plan. The loaf was our allowance of bread for the day.
-Coffee of rather doubtful quality was served, also one whole boiled
-potato, and some of them appeared to have grown for a couple of years.
-This breakfast was duplicated every day during the week. At dinner the
-meat ration was varied by bacon, liver or fish.
-
-Mustering officers and surgeons were very busy all the time, and
-companies of the First and Third were constantly passing our tents,
-to and from the mustering field. Orders were received to hurry up the
-mustering of the Second Regiment. Rumor had it that we were to go to
-Washington in a few days, the Third to stay and the First to go to
-Chickamauga Park to act with the Regulars in the contemplated invasion
-of Cuba. During the week the showers and wet fields kept us continually
-indoors and the first Sunday in camp it rained a flood. The streets
-were turned into quagmires and every now and then the slip-slop of some
-soldier passing the tent made the situation all the more gloomy.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Detailed news of Commodore Dewey's victory in Manila harbor reached
-us Sunday morning. The completeness of it, with such slight injury to
-ourselves, was pronounced as marvelous and cheering broke through the
-sodden air, stirring the dripping camp to life and action.
-
-This day was my initiation as Corporal in Guard Mounting and, although
-the Junior Corporal present, I was detailed to take out the first
-relief. It rained incessantly and at nine in the evening the guard was
-dismissed. My face then was quite numb from exposure. At three o'clock
-the next morning the guard resumed its duty.
-
-The second week turned out to be a pretty stiff one for drills, the
-weather being less wet. Friday, May 13th, we were examined by Surgeon
-Brien of our Regiment and all but four passed. One man failed to
-report; he had left camp for home. In the evening G Company started out
-with fife and drum to have a good time. They carried nearly the whole
-Battalion with them to the quarters of the commanding officers, who
-were repeatedly called out and made short speeches amid much cheering,
-after which the boys paraded through the camp. They were received with
-considerable enthusiasm in every street. The escapade proved welcome,
-for it diverted our thoughts from the weather.
-
-I had been temporarily assigned to the Quartermaster's Department
-shortly after our arrival at camp and was kept quite busy all the
-time making up schedules of equipments for each Regiment, and these
-were completed only within a few days of our departure south. Col.
-George G. Felton, Deputy Quartermaster-General, was in charge and
-was a most efficient officer. His department was a hive of industry,
-unloading cars, filling quotas, making out lists and distributing to
-the regiments, and when everything had been supplied he viewed with
-satisfaction as well an equipped force as ever entered the volunteer
-service of the United States.
-
-[Illustration: SEA GIRT, N.J., MAY, 1898.]
-
-While serving here I missed a number of marches the Company
-participated in, the most notable being the march along the beach and
-through the thick woods and swamps, ending with a vigorous charge over
-the sand hills bordering the ocean.
-
-The manual of arms used by the National Guard was abruptly changed
-to conform to the army manual and this change was brought about in
-an incredibly short time under the able instruction of our First
-Lieutenant, and the movements were executed with marked precision.
-Considerable attention was given to setting up exercises as practiced
-by the United States Army, so that we became quite proficient in the
-simpler movements. Though not having enough clear days to go more
-deeply into the more difficult exercises, the Regiment in companies
-would be at times seen on the field and it proved quite an interesting
-sight.
-
-The interesting ceremony of transforming us into soldiers of the
-United States Army occurred on Saturday afternoon, May 14th, before
-a large crowd of excursionists. Captain Ely being absent, Lieutenant
-Blake formed the Company a little after noon and marched us to the
-front of the mustering tent. Upon the arrival of the Captain the
-ceremony proceeded.
-
-As our names were called we formed in double time to the right of the
-officer, the Sergeants and Corporals making the alignment. This was
-to prove our actual presence. The names were again called. This time
-the officers formed the first line, the non-commissioned officers the
-second, and the balance, the third line, in company formation. An
-opportunity to withdraw was then given, the penalties for disobedience,
-desertion and other crimes enumerated in the articles of war were
-explained. He then ordered us to take off our caps, raise our right
-hands and swear to uphold the Government, fight _all_ its enemies and
-be true soldiers of the United States, "so help me God." The Regiment
-was mustered the next day.
-
-The First Regiment received its marching orders May 16th and on the
-19th we were formed to escort this finely equipped Regiment to the
-station. They were bound for Camp Alger, near Washington, D.C. It was
-believed at the time that this Regiment was to go to Cuba with the
-first invading army and it was with intense interest that we watched
-these stalwart men, most of them of Irish fighting stock, loaded down
-with their equipments march silently past. We gave them a cheer and
-a Godspeed as their train drew out. The episode sent us back to camp
-thinking hard over the uncertainties of life and what was to be the
-outcome of the war.
-
-Up to this time the wet weather had made Sunday services impossible,
-but Sunday, May 21st, was a grand day and after inspection of quarters
-the men of the Second and Third Regiments assembled on the lawn at
-the White House, while flags gayly fluttered, visitors arriving in
-their best attire, carriages and bicycles on the outskirts, with
-the ever-present green sward as a background stretching down to the
-sea, made a memorable picture and as the Governor stepped from the
-threshold of his cottage he could not but admire the pretty scene.
-
-He motioned that his chair should be placed in the midst of "his boys"
-instead of a more favorable position but apart from them. He took a
-lively interest in the service and sang "Onward Christian Soldiers"
-with as much vim as anybody. Chaplain Glazbrook of the Third early
-interested his hearers by citing during his discourse an ancient fable
-of an invincible, conquering warrior and his ultimate end.
-
-As far as appearances went, the last week in camp turned us all into
-sure enough soldiers, having been fully equipped for field service.
-The distributing of underwear and clothing was unique in its way. Our
-Quartermaster took my measure: For blouse, 36-inch; for trousers,
-32-inch × 30-inch. This is what was issued to me: Blouse, 38-inch;
-trousers, 34-inch × 31-inch; blue shirt, 15-1/2-inch; shoes, nothing
-smaller than 8 or 9. After much protesting I finally consented to take
-the above to be exchanged later. That later never came. Our Uncle
-Sammy evidently believed in giving all his soldier boys plenty of room
-for development.
-
-Each Company now had a cooking arrangement, known as a "Buzzacott,"
-invented by a private of that name in the Regular Army. It consisted of
-a number of flat bars of iron welded together and resting on legs one
-foot from the ground and so joined together as to fold up or take apart
-as necessity demanded, the whole arrangement making a gridiron about
-two feet wide by four feet long when in use; one field desk and cooking
-utensils, while each man was provided with one suit of underwear,
-socks, blue shirt, trousers and blouse of state uniform, campaign
-hat, web cartridge belt, Springfield rifle, leggings, kit--viz, one
-each combination frying pan and plate, knife, fork, tablespoon and
-cup--haversack, knapsack, poncho, blanket and canteen. This outfit
-would become complete when we received fifty rounds of ammunition and
-it was just about as much as we could stagger under.
-
-Manasquan had always been an enticing place even during our short stay
-at camp for rifle practice in former years and it became doubly so now
-as the boys formed acquaintances there, and notwithstanding the orders,
-guard running was becoming quite an art and up to this time had been
-very successful, so when an order was read at dress parade prescribing
-penalties relating to this subject there were many long faces in the
-ranks. These penalties were graded according to the seriousness of the
-offense: guard house one to six days, ditto on bread and water; again
-for absence without leave, "Carrying a forty pound pack six hours a day
-for four days." The guilty ones were often seen fore and aft of a wagon
-bringing sand from the beach for the low places in "Shoulder Strap row"
-and doing other "chores."
-
-The sentries were given strict orders to prevent this running out at
-night and the bayonet was sometimes used with disagreeable effect. The
-bands of discipline were tightened and the Regiment took a great brace.
-The parades were superb and brought crowds from all the nearby towns,
-and now that the sun shone the parade ground was a beautiful sight,
-stretching down to the sea with its hundreds of tents laid out in
-strict accordance to regulations.
-
-Tent pitching and striking was practiced at every favorable opportunity
-and was under the charge of a line officer, each Company detail under
-the immediate supervision of its Artificer, assisted by the Sergeants
-and Corporals.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Thursday, May 25th, we formed for escort of the Third Regiment. We
-had a different feeling this time, more of sympathy than otherwise,
-for they were to do garrison duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook
-fortifications and at Pompton Plains to guard the powder mills there.
-It rained hard at midnight just as each section was disembarking at its
-destination. The Fort Hancock detail had a particularly sorry time of
-it after leaving the cars.
-
-Monday, May 30th, was observed as a holiday and enough men were gotten
-together to form a battalion for the purpose of assisting the G.A.R.
-at their services in Manasquan. This battalion was composed entirely
-of the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War and was a striking example
-of how fighting blood runs down through generations. That evening we
-had parade and review before the Governor. A telegram from the War
-Department was read in orders directing the Regiment to proceed at once
-to Chickamauga Park.
-
-This order was the prevailing topic of conversation for the rest
-of the evening. During the night long trains of cars arrived, but
-notwithstanding the nearness of our departure for the actual seat
-of war, and Chickamauga was recognized as only a stepping stone to
-Tampa, where the invading army was gathering, we slept soundly and
-peacefully. Such was the effect of the fresh salt breezes from the
-ocean and the outdoor life that in one short month our nervous systems
-had been completely renovated, and exciting events could not make any
-inroads upon our time for repose, but we always rose fresh and bright
-at daylight, ready for the day's drills and exercises. Tuesday broke
-bright and clear and found most of our "traps" packed and awaiting
-final orders. I hastily arranged to take a night at home. All furloughs
-had been stopped, but mine was "managed" with a few others, thanks
-to our commanding officer. After visiting everybody we could in the
-short time allotted to us we started for camp again Wednesday morning.
-Arriving there at noon, we found all the tents down, baggage being
-packed and the men sitting on their knapsacks eating hard tack. A few
-lucky ones were eating sandwiches.
-
-There was work ahead for me, however, and I was soon assisting on the
-Company rolls, which were being made up for (as we thought) State pay.
-While this was going on the Company was marched out and photographed.
-It was a good picture, but unfortunately the Captain and a number of
-men were left out, owing to absence on details. The sun shone from
-an unclouded sky and with direct fierceness as if to atone for its
-shyness for the past four weeks. Everything now being ready, tents and
-baggage loaded, we marched out in heavy marching order and were again
-photographed. Orders now arrived rapidly and we were soon forming for a
-final review before the Governor.
-
-Crowds had come down to see us off, and many were the tearful
-farewells and handshakes. But what a load our equipments made. We had
-discarded all the comforts and a great many things we believed we
-could do without, but still there was an immense dead weight in those
-knapsacks and the tinkling cups dangling from our haversacks added
-to this discomfort. The repeated warnings and commands of "close up,
-close up," caused the men, heavily loaded as they were, to jostle each
-other while the veins in their foreheads stood out like whip cords.
-The tremendous physical strain, together with the heat, made this a
-never-to-be forgotten march, and was only equalled by the celebrated
-"dust march" at the end of our journey. With very little delay we
-boarded our section and with many a frantic farewell we started on our
-long and eventful journey to the land of palms and soft breezes.
-
-
-
-
-PART SECOND
-
-
-
-
-THE JOURNEY SOUTH
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-At three thirty in the afternoon, June 2d, 1898, we pulled out of the
-station at Sea Girt and immediately proceeded to make ourselves as
-comfortable as possible. Each man had a seat to himself, these being
-of the low backed variety. Our equipments we hung on the package
-racks, and they jangled and banged with every movement of the car. We
-had hardly gotten settled in our seats when we became aware that the
-population all along our route had turned out to see us, and every
-little cross road had its group of farm wagons and country people, who
-had been there for hours, and cheered us as we passed. Our journey
-became a continual ovation, which reached its height as we swung past
-Monmouth Junction. At this place occurred the most touching sight it
-was my fortune to witness during our eventful journey. As we drew
-near the station a series of whistles brought every head in the car
-to the window. Every doorstep, garden and fence had its waving flag.
-The school children had been dismissed and had marched in a body to
-the long freight platform at the depot. Along the whole front of this
-line of children was stretched the national colors, while from their
-hands waved the Emblem of Guardianship to our homes and little ones,
-and tiny voices were singing patriotic songs. Up to this time I had
-been skeptical of the patriotism of our people, believing that the
-enthusiasm heretofore witnessed was merely a personal feeling, but
-here were people utter strangers to us, bringing their children. And
-why? Evidently to instill in their young minds that love of country
-which they themselves had and for which many of them had suffered a
-generation ago. All this burst upon me with indescribable rapidity and
-I know that I was not the only one in that car who had something in
-his throat which he did not like to speak of. Shortly after we struck
-the main line of the P. & R.R.R. We reached Trenton at five o'clock
-and crossed the Delaware. We were now going through a section much
-travelled over by the opposing forces in the Revolutionary War, and
-now occurred an altogether surprising and somewhat touching incident.
-My tent-mate and I being seated opposite each other were admiring the
-scenery; we had lost our bearings somewhat and had only a faint idea
-as to where we were, when the train suddenly emerged from the hills
-and presented before us a most beautiful landscape. He immediately
-recognized it as the fertile and rich Chester Valley. He had lived in
-this valley until he was nineteen years of age and became quite excited
-as he found we would pass the threshold of his home, where he had left
-his mother, brothers and sisters the week before. He knew all the
-points of interest. On the ridge yonder was Washington's headquarters
-where his shoeless army shivered and shook in their tattered garments
-at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-8. The remarkably clear
-atmosphere enabled the General with his glasses to sweep the valley
-for twenty miles. How many anxious glances he must have given in the
-direction of Philadelphia. A short distance farther on we crossed
-the Brandywine, that memorable stream on which the disastrous battle
-was fought and Philadelphia was laid open to the enemy. There was
-the stone dwelling in which the British General Gage, of Bunker Hill
-fame, was when the information was brought him of the band of Patriots
-sleeping peacefully around some hay ricks at Paoli, which resulted in
-their surprise and massacre. Then we approached his home and he looked
-eagerly to see if any one was around the house, but there was no one.
-The carpenter shop in which he had learned his trade was pointed out.
-We passed Phoenixville and my enthusiastic friend kept naming over the
-villages, and often the names of householders within several miles of
-his old home. Lime of the best quality is found in the soil of this
-valley and accounts for the fertility of it. The sun now began to
-sink in a blaze of gold and about eight in the evening we drew into
-Harrisburg.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Harrisburg is noted far and wide for its steel and iron industries,
-and it was a most interesting sight to see the tall chimneys along
-the approach to the city vomiting forth columns of flame high in the
-air, lighting the whole neighborhood, while inside the foundries great
-masses of red hot metal glowed and sparkled while going through the
-molding process. But we never dreamed there were so many pretty girls
-there, in fact we were literally besieged as soon as our section
-arrived in the car sheds. Our officers were very positive in their
-order that no one should leave the cars, so we had to look cheerful
-while a fellow from some other Company walked off with the girl who
-had turned up such a bewitching, beseeching face for "just a little
-button." The boys from eleven companies of the Regiment had a mighty
-good time while we were waiting here, but some of the girls didn't
-mind being pulled up to a window and paying a forfeit as long as they
-got the button, and when the trains finally drew out again the boys of
-Company L had quite pleasant dreams of the Harrisburg girls. We had
-been waiting here for about two hours when our Junior Lieutenant came
-into the car and with a cheerfully serious face announced: "Well boys
-we are in for it now; we are bound for Jacksonville, Florida." I think
-an electric current must have passed through the car at that instant,
-everybody jumped out of their seats so quickly. Jacksonville and Tampa
-were about the same in our minds. It seems that Chickamauga Park was
-filling too rapidly with troops and transportation was getting clogged;
-hence the switching us off to the south. It was estimated that we had
-gone about three hundred miles out of our way. About eleven o'clock
-we drew out of Harrisburg, taps were sounded through the trains and
-all lights were extinguished. We found that the only way of taking
-a comfortable sleep was as follows: The back of one seat was swung
-upright and held in position by our rifles placed under one end; we
-then took out each seat and placed them crosswise; the lower ends would
-be under the upright backs. This gave us room to stretch ourselves at
-full length, and by putting our blankets under our heads for a pillow
-we managed to sleep fairly well. We arrived in Washington during the
-early hours of the morning and were awakened by the train starting
-out again at daylight. We caught a glimpse of the monument and the dome
-of the Capitol as we were rushed across the Potomac. In Alexandria,
-the town made famous in 1861 by the tragic death of Colonel Ellsworth,
-the white people were still sleeping and only stray negroes were out
-to see us pass. We skirted the Potomac for some miles, when we turned
-westward and southward. At Widewater we stopped for water and I plucked
-two daisies from Virginia soil and sent them home in a letter. This
-section of country which we traversed was as desolate and uncultivated
-a region as I ever want to see. It was totally unexpected and wholly
-disappointing. Vast fields in Virginia appeared as if the growing of
-grass was a hardship. Here and there a negro's log cabin, with its ten
-by ten garden of dwarf corn, with perhaps a bed of peanuts or sweet
-potatoes, reminded us that we had not left civilization entirely.
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-CORN AND PEANUTS."]
-
-As we rode swiftly towards the South a great disappointment was felt
-that we were not to go through the cities of Virginia--Fredericksburg,
-Petersburg and Richmond, historical places that we were peculiarly
-anxious to see. These were skirted or passed some distance away, but
-we caught a glimpse of the spires of Richmond and it set us all agog.
-We passed into North Carolina and soon entered Weldon, the scene of
-several cavalry engagements. After leaving this city we passed through
-miles of desolate country, over which once waved the tall and stately
-pines, but now only the blackened stumps greeted us. Occasionally a
-small forest was passed, which looked amid the general destruction as
-if it had been forgotten by the axeman.
-
-These small forests, which had been used only for tapping for
-turpentine and resin, contained trees sixty or seventy feet high,
-straight as an arrow, with the lowest branches twenty feet from the
-ground. These trees were about the only interesting features of this
-whole region of piney atmosphere. Occasionally we caught a glimpse of
-some far away range of mountains, but the view was quickly lost. At
-Henderson we stopped for water and our ice coolers were refilled. The
-water was gotten to the coolers through the top of the car by means of
-hose from a hydrant at the station. This refilling was done hurriedly
-and they were not very particular as to the direction in which the hose
-pointed, hence quite a few sorry looking soldiers.
-
-As we were slowly crossing over one of the many muddy streams of North
-Carolina a workman called out to us: "Be you un's come all the way from
-New Jersey?" "Yes." "And be you un's all goin' to Cuba?" "Yes." "Well
-you un's had better all go right back, for its hotter 'n hell-fire down
-there." A peculiar thing I noticed was the absence of all enthusiasm
-among the groups of people we occasionally met in the wilderness
-through which we passed. Most of these were negroes, but in nearly
-every group of black-faced humanity could be seen the fair face of the
-white girl, "Missus's little lamb," who took the household with her to
-see the Yankee soldiers, whose fathers years before had tramped through
-that very region, leaving burning forests and even cities in their
-wake. We entered Raleigh and passed the encampment where the State
-militia had mobilized. Soon after leaving Hamlet darkness descended,
-taps were sounded and we prepared for our second night's repose.
-
-We woke next morning as the train was crossing the Savannah river
-and immediately afterward entered Augusta, Ga., just as the cocks
-were crowing, having passed through South Carolina during the night.
-Here we enjoyed the luxury of a good wash and we needed it badly. The
-only water obtainable on the cars was in the water coolers and they
-had been empty a long while. Augusta gave us quite a welcome. It had
-been steadily getting warmer and warmer, until now as we pulled out
-of Augusta at about 8 a.m. the thermometer in the car marked 87°; at
-noon it was 95°, where it remained until far into the afternoon. Upon
-leaving Augusta we noticed for the first time the unmistakable signs
-of the tropics, great ferns, seven and eight feet high, which had rank
-growth in the swamps lining our route. Here and there scrub palmettos
-reared their graceful branches like giant hands bestowing a blessing
-upon the smaller growth beneath, and farther south loomed the shaggy
-headed cabbage palmetto, the sight of which recalled the brave fight
-at Fort Moultrie off Charleston in 1776, which fort was built almost
-entirely of palmetto logs, the principal advantage being the fact that
-they did not splinter when struck. We passed vast swampy areas of
-tangled scrub, out of which we could almost expect to see alligators
-show their bony snouts.
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-We stopped at Millen near noon to take our coffee. This town was burned
-when Sherman's troops marched through on their way to Augusta. It was a
-sleepy sort of a town. No one seemed to have any business to attend to.
-The stores were one story affairs, and upon entering we would select
-whatever we wanted and drop the nickel in the hand of the proprietor,
-who was seated at the door. The only busy place was the post-office,
-which did a thriving business during the hour we halted there. About 2
-p.m. we drew into the car sheds at Savannah only long enough to have
-the cars inspected. Here the boys were again besieged for buttons and
-souvenirs.
-
-All through Georgia were large numbers of hogs, "razor backs," the boys
-called them, probably of the same variety as Sherman's "bummers" had
-such fun over. They were very lean, had long legs and long snout, with
-a decidedly "bad" eye. At one of the stops for water a family was spied
-peacefully rooting among the pines, but the furious charge made upon
-them by the fun-loving boys soon scattered all but the sow; she defied
-them, and they let her alone, but the little fellows could run like
-rabbits. Three or four of our boys would corner a little black porker
-and suddenly drop on him, but somehow he was never under the pile when
-it landed. One, however, was caught and brought squealing into the
-cars, but was afterward dropped some distance farther on.
-
-We now sped due south, reaching Waycross late in the afternoon. Beyond
-its being a railroad center it was uninteresting. The forests now
-presented a truly tropical appearance with festoons of moss hanging
-from the branches of the palmettos; with ferns here and there. Against
-the dense green of the leaves stood in lovely contrast perfect showers
-of beautiful pink blossoms which covered large trees. We were now
-nearing Florida, the land of flowers, luscious fruit, ancient buildings
-and brilliant fountains of perpetual youth, but now the mecca of
-thousands of Uncle Sam's soldiers. It was growing dark as we crossed
-the line into the most southern State. We arrived at Jacksonville
-station about 10 o'clock. Taps were sounded, lights put out and we
-slept soundly.
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-PART THIRD
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-CAMP CUBA LIBRE
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-The next morning we were caught napping sure enough--for during the
-night the train had taken us out to the camp--bugles were calling to
-each other, seemingly right under our "bed-room" windows, and away off
-in the distance, the echoes were replying "Can't get 'em up; can't
-get 'em up." Then our own buglers had their say, flinging back the
-imputation that we were the only ones not up. Then the regimental band
-took up the strain. It was a beautiful morning. The sun was just rising
-and throwing slanting rays into the trees. All around us were the tents
-of soldiers. Sentries with ominous looking cartridges in their belts
-were wearily pacing their beats, but ever alert to the slightest move,
-for we were now comparatively near to the seat of war. The band ceased
-and sharp commands followed. In an incredibly short space of time the
-companies nearest us were formed, every coat buttoned, every legging
-laced, and the sergeant rapidly calling the roll. We had confidently
-believed that we could give points in military efficiency to any
-regiment we might come in contact with, but we inwardly confessed right
-there and then that this regiment on our left could give us points on
-getting out for roll call, and not during all our stay in the army did
-we ever succeed in getting anywhere near the example set for us that
-morning.
-
-While waiting for the order to proceed to camp we were regaled with
-marvelous tales of alligators, rattlesnakes, spiders and poisonous
-creeping and flying things of all kinds. We participated in the killing
-of a snake under the cars and had a great chase after an immense
-spider, which "wasn't near" as "big" as "some," they said, so we
-imagined they must have resembled crabs. They had an alligator about
-four feet long, which they had caught not 100 feet away in a stream.
-
-About noon we disembarked and with our invincible drum corps leading,
-we marched through camp to the site selected for us. This march will
-never be forgotten, and it was dubbed "the dust march." Fortunately for
-us it was only for about half a mile, but we inhaled more dust then
-than we will for the rest of our lives. Indeed, our company got the
-full benefit of it, for we were the left or rear company. Wisconsin
-and Illinois cheered us. Virginia and North Carolina yelled at us, and
-altogether we got a pretty good welcome. Wisconsin took the trouble to
-visit us the next day to tell us how glad they were to see us come into
-camp, and we took to these hearty Milwaukee lads like a duck to water.
-Sunday morning broke bright and clear and we were immediately in the
-throes of "house" moving. All the lines of street had to be adjusted,
-and it was late in the afternoon before we were finally settled and
-could begin "house keeping" in good earnest. All our food so far had
-been "travel rations," and the nice things we had brought began to
-spoil. It was two days before the commissary could get our rations to
-camp, their arrival relieved us greatly.
-
-We were now camped on the left of the regiment, or northeast, getting
-the full benefit of the breeze which at noon was sure to come and stay
-until after dark. The evenings were fine. Such in the north in the hot
-months are rare. The thermometer in the daytime registered 85° to 95°,
-while in the evening it marks only 60°; no mosquitoes. The flaps of
-tents were generally left open, but ours we closed because near morning
-a heavy dew falls and saturates everything exposed and we did not think
-it wise to leave them open.
-
-The odor of pines was in the air constantly, and when we went into the
-fields for drill a weed, when trampled on, emitted a perfume not unlike
-locust blossoms. The fields also were full of the scrub palmettos about
-two or three feet high. They were similar to the palm branches so
-familiar on Palm Sunday. Another peculiar character in plant life here
-was the moss which hangs in shroud-like gracefulness from all kinds
-of trees. This moss looks very like curly sea-weed when dry and hangs
-in festoons several feet long from the limbs and branches. This moss
-some of the Wisconsin boys spread in their tents to sleep upon and it
-evidently made comfortable beds.
-
-Sunday I strolled into Jacksonville and watched the soldiers crabbing
-from the piers. These crabs they told me were not fit to eat on account
-of so much decayed vegetable matter in the St. Johns river, upon which
-they feed. A striking feature of the river is the denseness with which
-in places it is covered with hyacinths, which at times clog the wheels
-of ferry-boats so as to stop navigation. These plants were introduced
-here some time back for the purpose of beautifying the banks, having
-handsome spikes of bloom. They grow very large. The leaf is much larger
-than a pond-lily, and is frequently the home of a poisonous spider.
-Tradition tells us that these spiders are to eventually destroy the
-plants. I visited St. Johns Episcopal church and was received by the
-Secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary, who kindly showed me around. On a
-subsequent visit I met the Rector and enjoyed a chat with him on the
-porch of the rectory. He told me that fourteen young men of his church
-had left for the war. Some of them were from the choir, and I was
-invited to take part with the choir in the services during our stay.
-
-Our company had been designated as the Provost Guard, Second Division,
-Seventh Army Corps, with Captain Ely as Provost Marshal. What honor
-there was in it came from the fact that we were the body guard of
-General Lee, and received orders from him only. We became a distinct
-body, with the Provost Marshal's headquarters in Jacksonville, near the
-General's headquarters. No State pay had come yet and everybody was
-"dead broke." The extra blue shirts the boys bought on going to Sea
-Girt they were now selling to the Illinois boys to obtain a few cents
-to spend.
-
-A canteen had been established which dispensed liquors and soft drinks
-only. The men might go to the first sergeant and procure trading orders
-on the canteen to the amount of two dollars. This amount was often
-cut down to one dollar or less by the Captain, who used his judgment
-in the matter. The men would laugh with childish glee upon obtaining
-these orders and invite their friends to "come and have something,"
-wondering how they had survived so long without it. The amount was soon
-used up. The Y.M.C.A. had established a large tent just back of our
-company and provided for the use of the regiment a stock of magazines
-and periodicals. Also ice-water which was kept in barrels sunk in the
-ground. Strange to say, the hospitality of the association was often
-abused, but as a rule the boys generally appreciated their kindness.
-This tent was supposed to follow the regiment to Cuba or wherever it
-went. The soil being of a light sandy loam and mixed profusely with
-soot from fires in the pine woods, rose easily with the breeze, which
-sprang up about noon every day and gave us a liberal sprinkling of this
-dusty compound. To keep the interior of our tent clean, we procured the
-tufts of needles which grow thickly on the top of young pines like a
-plume as they permitted the dust to sift through them, and when dried
-made a couch which was soft and springy. It took about one to one and
-a half hours to collect enough needles for one man, and for that reason
-the idea was not generally adopted. "Too much trouble."
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-The guard duty our company performed was such that we became more or
-less a target at which uncomplimentary remarks were hurled by men of
-other regiments, and it was only because it was in the line of duty
-that it was done so cheerfully. During the week the regiment was paid
-by the Government for the month of May, and the city of Jacksonville
-was painted a Jersey color from end to end. The other regiments were
-paid also, but they were not in it with Jersey. Lieutenant Brunner
-reported that he had sent home for the boys amounts aggregating
-three hundred dollars. Considerable industry finally erected a "real
-bath-house," which contained two sprays and lots of pans for washing
-purposes. It is needless to say that this house was the most popular
-in camp. The camp was laid out in squares, and the dividing streets of
-regiments were provided with stand pipes and troughs, both of which
-were used from daylight until midnight. It was especially refreshing
-to take a dip after marching until midnight and then creeping between
-the blankets, sleep soundly until morning. This water was supplied by
-the Jacksonville Water Co., which had four Artesian wells sunk back in
-the country and piped to the pumping station in Jacksonville, whence
-it was distributed around. One of these wells was nearly one thousand
-feet deep. The water never ceased to flow, and was always bright and
-sparkling, although rather warm, with a decided taste of sulphur,
-which from some wells was positively disagreeable. This water was also
-used for fire purposes and, besides its use by the city, supplied ten
-thousand soldiers and several corrals of horses and mules for washing
-and bathing purposes. The pumping station was guarded night and day,
-for suspicious persons had been seen near it. It would have been
-dangerous to go too near it after dark. Everything we ate and drank was
-carefully guarded.
-
-All the boys were enjoying their stay there immensely. We were getting
-better food from the Government than we got at Sea Girt, nor must I
-forget to mention that the people of Jacksonville always welcomed us,
-and lots of things found their way into our tents. To the Jacksonville
-people there was nothing just like the Jerseymen. We were treated with
-great kindness. One lady, who said she used to live in New Jersey, sent
-us a large can filled with stew, which we accepted with thanks, and it
-was excellent, but that very noon we had stew at camp and we were dosed
-with stews morning, noon and night. We decided to decline the next
-donation.
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-We had been away from home just one month and a half and in that
-time--although not seeing any actual field service--we believed we had
-become pretty thoroughly seasoned in camp life. One month of steady
-downpour and half a month of blazing tropical sun was enough to do the
-trick. We were housed in as comfortable quarters as possible under
-the circumstances. The climate here made us so sleepy and lazy that
-at all hours, between eight in the morning and five in the afternoon,
-the tents contained sleeping men, and they slept so soundly that
-often they would wake to find some joker had been smearing their
-faces with soot and grease. Nights in Jacksonville, however, brought
-that musical pest we all knew so well, the mosquito. He abounds along
-the St. Johns river, and seemed to enjoy good health and strength,
-judging from the looks of our boys, who were trying to sleep in provost
-headquarters while off guard during the night.
-
-[Illustration: CAMP OF THE SECOND NEW JERSEY REGIMENT JACKSONVILLE,
-FLA., 1898.]
-
-We were doing all night work now, relieved by Companies K, Forty-ninth
-Iowa, and I, First Wisconsin. This was found necessary after pay-day.
-This same day brought a rise in the price of souvenirs, live alligators
-and everything the soldier would be likely to buy to send home. What
-money the soldier received, if not sent home immediately, was generally
-left in saloons, and the storekeepers were merely making a bid for it,
-for it must go somewhere and right away too.
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-We had two squads doing duty in the camps of the division to see that
-regulations were lived up to. Our instructions were, "keep your eyes
-open, mouth closed." "Watch strangers in camp (no civilians were
-allowed unless with official escort), watch the policing of streets
-and the care of kitchens and sinks." "Don't criticise, but report
-observations on return," and the final injunction from Lieutenant
-Brunner, "Don't be fresh." The guard had no friends, for we arrested
-everybody found on the streets after taps. We had no drills, and up to
-this time enjoyed excellent health, no one from the company being sick.
-We took daily walks around the country and into Jacksonville while off
-duty. Our regiment paraded through Jacksonville on a Saturday afternoon
-and drew much favorable comment. We were reviewed by Generals Lee and
-Burt, the latter being our brigade commander. After we had passed
-the reviewing stand General Lee mounted his magnificent gray horse
-"Cuba," and rode at the head of the regiment back to camp. The people
-of Jacksonville said that the New Jersey regiment was the finest seen
-there, and Lee made the remark that he wished only one regiment like
-the Second New Jersey to show the Spaniards what an organized body of
-troops should be. His marching at our head was a mark of esteem in
-which he held us. This week we received our pay from the government
-to June 15th, and the boys were correspondingly happy. We were now
-kept so constantly on the jump that we hardly had the time to write
-to anybody. The box sent by the good people of Rutherford arrived on
-Sunday, but for lack of transportation it did not get into camp until
-Wednesday. All the perishable stuff, like cake, etc., was unfit to eat,
-but what was hailed with joy by the boys was canned vegetables and
-fruit. We had been getting greasy meat for a couple of weeks and had
-no money to buy anything else, and this in a hot climate. One box was
-marked Dick Rusk and Ben Cohen. This was for our tent, and for some
-time after we were enabled to "decorate the cloth" in great style with
-canned corn, mustard pickles, pickled onions, baked beans, chow-chow,
-condensed milk and tomato soup. One morning, being off duty, Corporals
-Cohen, Rusk and myself strolled into town. A gentleman hailed us from
-his porch and proceeded to show us his garden. This garden would fill
-any northerner with envy. He had orange trees, seven of them, all
-with oranges a shade darker than the beautiful green of the leaves.
-A beautiful tree of the fern family, having large branches of bright
-yellow flowers. These he said grew wild in Mexico. Enormous hydrangeas,
-hibiscus, the flowers of which were as large as an Easter lily, but a
-beautiful pink, with a maroon throat. Eight blooms were on this plant.
-The season of roses had ended, but he had some very handsome Marshal
-Neils, whose tree covered a large arbor. He had sent that morning to
-General Lee a large basket of red, white and blue flowers. He also
-showed us an Acacia tree which had delicate pink flowers the same
-time it had long brown pods of seed. We had some trouble in leaving
-this interesting gentleman. Baseball and athletic sports became
-quite popular at this time, and received the official endorsement of
-our higher officers. General Burt was often seen on the grand stand
-"rooting" for the team from his brigade. But the games were mostly
-between Wisconsin, Illinois, New Jersey and Iowa. The Wisconsin boys
-gained the championship, but they had to work hard for it. The Jersey
-boys excelled in the athletic sports and won nearly every event in the
-set of games. The General was quite a strict disciplinarian, but one
-day he became quite enthusiastic over a game of ball and was invited to
-take part. When he took off his coat he explained that he was no longer
-an officer, but just "one of the boys." The boys took this explanation
-literally, and during the game the General was a fair mark for all
-sorts of baseball slang and "jolly."
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-June 28th brought a very happy conclusion to our guard duty in
-Jacksonville, from which we were relieved by a company from the First
-North Carolina regiment. The company had been worked hard, and it was
-beginning to tell on us. Sergeant Collins at noon brought in the last
-detail, and as they marched proudly up the length of the company street
-they were applauded heartily. We could now take our old place at the
-left of the regiment and have the pleasure of serving under Lieutenant
-Blake in the field drills. There was no reason now why we should
-not become the record company of the regiment. The Wisconsin boys
-paid the regiment a visit one night. They were dressed only in their
-under garments, with their poncho's over their shoulders, and they
-had an elegant time. Our boys returned the visit the next night, in
-the same stylish undress, with the addition of a red blanket, instead
-of a poncho, leaving one arm bare to the shoulder. We then stuck our
-haversacks on our heads, with the flap trailing behind. The ridiculous
-get up was so taking that nearly half the regiment turned out, and
-headed by the drum corps, we marched past the Second Illinois camp and
-through the camps of the Second and Fourth Virginia, Second Wisconsin
-and Forty-ninth Iowa, in all of which officers and men turned out and
-cheered us. The comment of "Jersey, you're all right," seemed to fit
-the case exactly. All the mascots, big and little, turned out with us,
-even the red, white and blue rooster.
-
-Arriving back in camp, the Colonel was called out and in a neat speech
-he complimented the men on their orderly behavior, wished us to have
-all the fun we could get, but warned us to keep within the bounds of
-military discipline. The efforts we had put forth to make ourselves
-ridiculous had covered us with perspiration and a thick layer of dust
-clung to everything that was exposed, so that we were a sight to make
-the iron faced gods laugh. The bathhouses were soon crowded, and far
-into the night shirtless human spectres were flitting through the
-streets.
-
-We had a turn at drill the next morning and it was particularly severe.
-Hot! My, in the morning it seemed to blister, and we were soaked with
-perspiration, for we had regimental battle exercises; but as soon as we
-returned we stripped, got a bath and felt better. I remember distinctly
-that morning after the bath of sitting down in only my trousers and
-socks and writing a long letter to the folks at home.
-
-In our night patrols of the city we came across some very nice people
-who took pains to get our names, and would ask for us if we did not
-appear on guard the next night. Upon their invitation I visited a
-family by the name of Rich, and while there two other of our boys
-came along, whereupon the table was spread and we had a nice afternoon
-lunch. Next day they sent us a big chocolate layer cake.
-
-The champion watermelon eater of the company was universally conceded
-to be Private Isaac Wilson, and a meal seldom passed but Ike was seen
-up to his ears in melon. This fruit cost from 20 cents to nothing,
-according to the distance from camp. One depot commissary guard of
-eight men had six melons to eat. Ike was there and they disappeared
-very quickly. Every time the reliefs awoke during the night watermelon
-stared them in the face.
-
-As we were upon the eve of very serious operations in Cuba, the
-authorities deemed it expedient to have the Articles of War read to the
-soldiers. There are 127, and we received them upon the installment plan
-at roll call in the morning and evening. Lieutenant Brunner read these
-so well that it was rumored he intended to lecture after the war was
-over on what not to do in war times.
-
-A number of excellent entertainments were given in the Y.M.C.A. tent.
-The Second Illinois band gave a concert one evening, and on another
-occasion Sergeant Gift and Private Gillen sang solos, while Private
-F.M. Stevens played enjoyable selections upon the piano; at the close
-of which a premature announcement by the chaplain of the fall of
-Santiago was made, and an enthusiastic scene took place, while the
-cheering was taken up all over camp. The boys had been following events
-closely and all were eager for action. We felt keenly the hardships our
-comrades were enduring and wished to share them. We were at this time,
-perhaps, in better condition for an active campaign than at any time of
-our stay in the south, being fully equipped, in excellent spirits and
-good health.
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-PART FOURTH
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-PLEASURES OF THE CAMP.
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-For July 4th an elaborate program had been prepared, but owing to a
-considerable downpour of rain it was postponed to the next day. The
-celebration probably surpassed anything of its kind Jacksonville ever
-saw, and its features are not likely to be seen again. These were:
-9 a.m., music and the reading of the Declaration of Independence,
-with speeches; 12 m., salute of 48 guns; 4.30 p.m., parade of all
-the troops in camp, numbering 12,000; but most interesting was the
-train of 189 pack mules connected with the regiment of Rough Riders
-commanded by Colonel Torrey. It was in genuine Rocky Mountain style,
-and created considerable interest. The Second Mississippi regiment of
-infantry turned out only half equipped, and the transition periods from
-a citizen to a trained soldier were seen to advantage. Our regiment
-paraded in good shape, with L Company in its honorable position at the
-left of the regiment. Owing to another downpour of rain the line of
-march was shortened, and after being reviewed we marched back to camp,
-drenched to the skin. The men all had changes of underclothing and no
-bad effects resulted, but the street next morning resembled the rear of
-a tenement in New York on wash day.
-
-Sunday evening, July 8th, a detachment from each company of our
-regiment was assembled to attend service in the First Presbyterian
-Church of Jacksonville, and about 300 men, headed by the First
-Wisconsin band, left camp at 7 p.m. After the capture of the city by
-the Federal troops during the Civil War, this church was used by them
-as a hospital and the building has not been altered in any particular
-since then. The band led in the singing. It probably would have been
-pleasant out of doors, but in a boxlike structure of truly southern
-style, with the bass drum, snare drums and cymbals banging out "Nearer,
-My God, to Thee," it became a very trying experience indeed.
-
-The flowers of Florida seemed to be rather a myth, very few being
-seen, but those of us who had friends at home who loved flowers were
-able to find some choice specimens. The handsomest wild flower I
-saw was the Hibiscus. It grew about five feet high in dense swampy
-thickets, usually at the edge of creeks. Its blossoms measured fully
-ten inches in diameter. Its great wide throat was crimson. Yellow
-sepals and four pink petals blotched with black completed this
-beautiful flower. They grow in profusion, and against a background of
-green leaves make a very showy appearance.
-
-During our journey south I noticed large clumps of yellow
-Jack-in-the-Pulpits which were twice the size of our Jersey plants.
-The season of flowers in Florida is the months of February, March and
-April. Then the roses are in bloom. Marshal Neils grow in almost every
-garden in Jacksonville, some climbing to the tops of the houses, and
-upon the roof, late blossoms of tea roses were still to be seen. The
-Passion flower is very common, the climate favoring this aptly named
-blue and white legendary flower of the Crucifixion. Seeds of other
-flowers blown from gardens take root in the streets and empty lots,
-and among them the starry-eyed phlox lifts up its pleasant little
-face. Camellias also were very common, lading the air near them with
-rich perfume. Cannas reached perfection without any cultivation, short
-plants but immense flaming blossoms; others were yellow, blotched with
-red. The collecting of these flowers was a positive pleasure, even in
-the hot sun.
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-
-July 9th our regiment was swelled to its full complement by the
-addition of 330 recruits from Sea Girt, and a finer lot of young men
-did not come to camp for any regiment. More than this, the State had
-done for the Nation what no other had, equipped every man ready to
-go to the front. Time and again recruits would come from Illinois,
-Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina dressed just as they
-appeared at home. As our boys marched through Jacksonville escorted by
-detachments from each company, they received considerable applause.
-They carried aloft the banner "New Jersey Recruits! This is the
-material that New Jersey sends." We were all proud of our State. At the
-camp their reception was cooled by a downpour of rain.
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-Monday morning, July 11th, it commenced to rain and it rained in
-torrents the rest of the day and all night. It flooded the tents, so
-that boards and even boxes had to be brought into service to stand on.
-The recruits, being quartered on lower ground, were practically drowned
-out, so that they either had to stand in the rain or seek shelter in
-tents already crowded to their limits. There was hardly a dry foot in
-camp Tuesday night.
-
-A large number of 1884-model Springfield rifles arrived at this time
-and our regiment was supplied. Their newest feature was a ramrod
-bayonet, the dangerous end being cast like a bit. By giving a twist to
-the rifle after entering a body it would tear the flesh horribly. In
-other respects it was the same rifle used in the National Guard for
-years.
-
-Thursday, July 14th, a telegram was received by Adjutant Hilton
-announcing the fall of Santiago. The news was genuine this time, and
-the occasion prompted an outburst of enthusiasm. Later on the good
-feeling was increased by the welcome command of "Fall in for your pay."
-
-The coloring and shapes which the clouds assumed in the early evening
-were quite remarkable. One evening in particular, at about 6.30, a
-scarlet and white streak stretched across the heavens from north to
-south, and about five minutes afterwards a line of blue, which was as
-straight as if cut out with a knife, came across the north end, running
-east and west. The combination made a very striking similitude to an
-American flag.
-
-At the waterworks in Jacksonville there was a pond in which lived
-an alligator of variously estimated lengths and age. One day while
-I was idly watching the game fish which also inhabited the pool,
-the keeper brought the saurian's noonday lunch in the shape of a
-live chicken. Coaxing the ugly reptile to come nearer the wire fence
-proved unavailing, so the chicken was thrown about one foot from his
-snout. Like a flash the great mouth opened, there was a splash, a few
-feathers, a couple of gulps, and the huge head was resting just the
-same as before, never moving an eye. The slang expression of "you can't
-lose me when grub is around" seemed to fit his case exactly.
-
-A company fund was now established for the purpose of securing a
-greater variety of food, building a mess-house, and to pay the cook
-a few more dollars than the government provided. The assessment was
-50 cents per month for each member. Arrangement was also made with a
-colored woman to do the clothes washing of the company, which also
-necessitated a payment of 50 cents a month per man. This was so cheap
-that very few could not afford it, and the wash was quite large each
-week. The intention of the company fund was to discourage the purchase
-of pies, cakes, ice cream, etc., all too frequently indulged in. Some
-of the "credits" obtained at these stores amounted to $3.00 or more,
-which the soldier was supposed to liquidate on pay-day.
-
-Now that the signs pointed to an early termination of the war, the
-prospect of getting to Cuba grew less and less, and the boys commenced
-to turn their thoughts on pleasure. A large number of cameras made
-their appearance, and trips were taken for the purpose of getting
-views of Florida life. These pictures were developed in Jacksonville
-and usually sent home. Some excellent ones were obtained. Trips were
-made to Pablo Beach, a bathing resort on the coast to the east, St.
-Augustine, and up the St. Johns river, all of which were at reduced
-rates.
-
-To the above list of diversions must be added a wedding. The ceremony
-took place in the Y.M.C.A. tent, and was between a member of the Second
-Illinois Regiment and his sweetheart from Chicago. The bride was fair,
-wore a white dress, with bouquets of orange blossoms at her belt
-and in her hair. The groom wore, in addition to his uniform, a high
-white collar that was the envy of all the boys and white kid gloves,
-which must have been excruciating. They received a great ovation upon
-leaving. Other marriages took place, some of which we did not hear of
-until reaching home. Some of our boys were regular attendants at church
-and sang in the choirs, being heartily welcomed by the good people
-of Jacksonville.
-
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-
-Early one Saturday morning Corporals Cohen, Rusk and myself decided
-upon a trip to St. Augustine. Inspection of quarters was completed at
-8.30 a.m. and we immediately proceeded to Jacksonville to take the
-train south, there being no other duties during the day. The fare to
-soldiers had been reduced one-half, or 50 cents, which fact enabled
-large numbers of soldiers to take advantage of the trip. This day was
-no exception, and the cars were crowded. We went to the front of the
-train and there found an empty coach, save for two or three negroes.
-We decided that we were extremely fortunate indeed. The rear was
-partitioned off for baggage. The conductor happened through and asked
-us if we could not find room in the rear cars. We were surprised, but
-answered that we might have found room on the "roof." After he had
-left it dawned upon us that this was a car portioned off for negroes,
-as members of this race only came into it, so we very graciously asked
-those in the car if they had any objections to our staying there. The
-courtesy took them so much by surprise that they could only stare at us
-for answer. So we took our seats again and prepared to enjoy ourselves.
-
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-
-After a half hour's wait we were fairly started, only to stop every few
-miles to sidetrack and allow other trains to pass. These waits became
-so numerous that it was nearly noon before we reached St. Augustine and
-were just one and one-half hours behind schedule.
-
-All the way down the forests seemed fresher and the flowers grew more
-thickly among the pines. The absence of charred, blackened areas was
-also noticeable.
-
-The city, seen from a distance, reminded one strongly of a city of
-the Moors, for above the trees rose a bewildering labyrinth of towers
-and minarets, which carried us back to the charming descriptions in
-Irving's "Mahomet" and "Granada." We alighted at a very pretty and
-airy station surrounded by large beds of flowers and tropical plants.
-Among the many importuning jehus we selected one who took us free
-to a restaurant. The ebony driver was very loquacious; laughed when
-we laughed and interspersed gratis information which was highly
-interesting. We jested at the boys along the streets not so fortunate
-as we, and tried to cheer them up with the assurance that it was five
-miles at least to the nearest "grub."
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-The air was remarkably clear and bracing, and is so all the year
-round. Every garden seemed a mass of color. Oleanders were everywhere,
-filling the air with their spicy breath, drooping their great bowers
-of blossoms over the sidewalks. Every home had its well-kept lawns
-and shade trees, some with fountains playing enhanced the beauty of
-the place. The Memorial Presbyterian Church is very handsome, and
-contains one of the finest organs in the South. H.M. Flagler built
-this church in 1890 in memory of his daughter, and it is supposed to
-have cost $250,000. A little to the east is the Baptist church, built
-a few years later, with its heavy impressive front and tall, square
-tower, preserving the sedate architecture of this denomination, while
-conforming to the general tendency to things Moorish. But here on our
-right is one of the most magnificent hotels of the South, the Ponce
-de Leon, which stands alone the most handsome and unique of its kind
-in the United States. Built upon the style of the Moorish palaces of
-the fifteenth century, its architecture is at once voluptuous and
-elegant,--towers and minarets shooting up here and there. Its massive
-iron gates and chains with spiked balls, heavy oaken doors, courts,
-balconies, and marbled walks, are richly carved in Moorish figures. The
-gardens surrounding it are only such as a tropical climate can produce.
-Stately palmettos and palms shoot up their feathery tops above graceful
-bananas lazily waving their plumes in the fresh sea breeze; huge masses
-of oleanders, which here seem to reach their perfection, bending
-beneath the weight of their blossoms, formed arches of exquisite
-beauty across the walks; century plants, orange trees with leaves of
-the softest green imaginable while underneath were clusters of fruit
-of a still darker color, reminders of a golden harvest. Hydrangeas of
-enormous size, the leaves of which were entirely hidden by the great
-tresses of pink and blue flowers,--were scattered profusely in all
-directions. Roses seemed to grow everywhere, climbing over fences, into
-trees, up the sides of buildings--handsome ones that are strangers to
-northerners who have slim purses; and right in the midst of all this
-beauty of color were playing fountains sending sprays of silver ten and
-fifteen feet high. It is a veritable Garden of Eden. Henry M. Flagler
-is the controlling spirit in this beautiful palace, as he is in the
-other hotels, the massive Cordova and beautiful Alcazar, with their
-lovely gardens and fountains. Mr. Flagler's influence extends over the
-greater part of the east coast in hotels and railroads of this famous
-wintering State.
-
-The older part of the town lies along the water front, just as the
-Spaniards had planned the city. On our left was an old building
-formerly used as a barracks, but now devoted to the manufacture of
-cigars and quite dilapidated. On the right stood a large square
-building which many times resounded with the laughter and possible
-braggadocio of the cavalier, for this was the residence of the
-Governor-General of the Floridas. It is now used as the post-office.
-
-Our interesting guide announced that before us was the Plaza, where the
-landing of Menendez was celebrated September 7, 1565, amid the thunder
-of artillery and the blasts of trumpets, with the banner of Castile and
-Aragon unfurled. He immediately ordered the celebration of mass, while
-his soldiers chanted the Te Deum. He named the place St. Augustine, for
-he had sighted land on the feast day of that saint. The celebration of
-mass in this old city has been kept up uninterruptedly for 333 years.
-The old Cathedral with its four chimes (one of which has the date
-1682) hanging from bars in niches of the steeple, give a truly Spanish
-flavor to the surroundings. The present old building was built in 1793;
-the original one having been destroyed by fire the previous year. A
-monument in the center of the Plaza marks the commemoration of the
-adoption of the Spanish constitution of 1812; also a monument of the
-Florida soldiers of the civil war stands here. Across the street on the
-right is Trinity Episcopal Church, consecrated in 1833 by Bishop Bowen
-of South Carolina.
-
-Our restaurant now appearing, our interest in the "most ancient city"
-suddenly lapsed over the prospect of a good dinner. We had a chance to
-wash and then partook of a fine repast, the like of which we had not
-seen since leaving home. Fine bread, green corn, roast lamb and golden
-butter, and to crown all, a heaping saucer of ice cream, and all for 25
-cents.
-
-In the Plaza before mentioned stands a shed, covering a platform
-upon which for over 200 years slaves were bought and sold, and many
-a heart-rending scene took place there. The powder magazines of the
-Spanish were pointed out to us; now a barracks for a battery of
-artillery; also the oldest house in the United States, and now so
-improved (?) that hardly any of the quaint architecture is apparent. It
-is at present owned by a Dr. Carver.
-
-Two monuments on St. Francis street commemorate the Dade massacre
-in December, 1835; Major Dade, Captain Frazer and one hundred men,
-after a desperate resistance, were mercilessly slaughtered by the
-Seminoles under Micanopy, an Indian who, tradition says, "could eat
-a calf at one sitting, and then coil up like a snake" to digest the
-repast. Osceola, chief of the Seminoles, slew General Thompson, the
-Indian Agent, and then waged a ruthless war which ended only after the
-Okeechobee battle had been fought and the celebrated chief captured. We
-were now going through streets lined with fine residences and gardens.
-Some of the banana trees were in blossom while others had small green
-bunches hanging from the topmost boughs. Oranges were abundant. Date
-palms waved their feathery crests at us, but above all were the beauty
-and fragrance of the oleanders.
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-Now we came in sight of what everybody comes here to see, the old
-Fort. Almost before we were aware of it we were at the celebrated
-gates, which are built of stone and formed part of the line of defence
-projected at the time the Fort was built. There are niches or sentry
-boxes in each gate, where undoubtedly the sentries found shelter from
-the weather. We tramped up the hill to the Fort and were struck at
-once by the peculiar substance with which it is built. On Anastasia
-Island across the bay are quarries from which this substance "Coquina"
-or shell rock is dug. Double walls were built of stone and broken
-stone and Coquina were rammed down between them. This wall being of
-such peculiar composition would impact the shot, and would prevent it
-from splintering or cracking. We entered over the drawbridge and were
-confronted by the arms of Castile and Aragon over the portcullis. Here
-was legitimate Spanish prey. Why not capture it? But the eye of the
-Ordnance Sergeant is upon us. The pulley and beams which raised and
-held the drawbridge across the moat are still in the walls. We are now
-in the court or assembly place. On the right are two guard rooms and
-a dungeon. In this dungeon Osceola was confined and niches cut in the
-wall by him for the purpose of looking out on the court are shown.
-The next door contains an old Spanish lock of considerable size. The
-iron framework of the door is still intact, but has been filled in
-with new wood. The next room is the chapel and a niche for the patron
-saint Augustine. Here mass was said and marriages performed. A part
-of the timbers supporting the choir loft is still there. In the next
-room holes in the wall indicate where crosses, thumb-screws and other
-instruments of fiendish torture of the inquisition were placed. Rings
-to which chains were attached are still in the walls. A torch was now
-lighted and we entered from the last room into one of utter darkness,
-save a window for ventilation eighteen feet from the ground. It was
-from this room that the two Seminole chiefs, Wildcat and Hadjo escaped
-through that very window, the bars of which were scarce twelve inches
-apart, and made a leap of thirty feet to the ground on the outside.
-The guide called to us to follow, and led us through an aperture six
-feet high and two and a half feet wide. This room is five feet by
-twenty and fifteen feet high. We take this size from our guide, for
-we can see nothing. Then he bade us stoop low and follow closely. We
-were beginning to have a creepy feeling about the roots of our hair,
-and this increased after emerging from an entrance four and a half by
-three feet wide. The air is oppressive and the sepulchral tones of the
-guide announces that this room was not known to exist until it had been
-in possession of the United States for fourteen years. It is twenty
-feet long, thirteen feet wide and seven feet high. With the entrance
-closed, death would occur in about fifteen minutes. In the outer room
-through which we stumbled, tradition says two skeletons, male and
-female, were found hanging in cages nailed to the wall. The incredulous
-are shown the nail holes. These dungeons were used probably to a
-considerable extent during the inquisition. At each of the four corners
-of the fort is a watch tower, named respectively St. Peter, St. Paul,
-St. Charles and St. Augustine, into each of which curiosity led us.
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-The broad terreplein furnishes one of the finest promenades imaginable,
-the ocean being plainly visible over Anastasia Island, while the
-freshest of sea breezes neutralize the intense heat of the sun.
-One hundred and ninety-one years is the record of labor on this
-fortification. For sixty years the Appalachian Indians were compelled
-to work upon it and to their efforts are probably due the immense labor
-of construction.
-
-We had now "done" the Ancient City pretty thoroughly, so we again took
-our carriage, obtained another square meal and boarded the train,
-arriving in camp as taps were sounding. The Spaniards were fond of
-bombast and high-sounding phrases. Here is a proclamation issued by the
-Governor upon landing in St. Augustine:
-
-"I, Panfilo de Narvaez, cause to be known to you how God created the
-world and charged St. Peter to be the Sovereign of all men in whatever
-country they might be born. God gave him the whole world for his
-inheritance. One of his successors made it a gift to the King and Queen
-of Spain so that the Indians are their subjects. You will be compelled
-to accept Christianity. If you refuse and delay agreeing to what I
-have proposed to you, I will march against you. I will subject you to
-obedience to the Church and his Majesty. I will obtain possession of
-your wives and children. I will reduce you to slavery, and the blood
-be upon your own head. Amen."
-
-When Menendez landed, he took possession of the whole Western
-Hemisphere in the name of the King of Spain, and this present year has
-seen the grand finale of the act begun with great pomp in 1565.
-
-One Sunday afternoon in the Y.M.C.A. tent General O.O. Howard made an
-address to the boys which was brimming with patriotism and recited a
-pathetic anecdote of a young lieutenant of artillery who at Gettysburg
-was wounded and bled to death. I was very proud to grasp the left hand
-of the old hero whose eyes had flashed fire in a dozen fierce and
-bloody battles of the civil war.
-
-In due course of events the mess-house became a reality. It was 48 by
-18, roofed over, the sides being open. It contained two long tables and
-seated about one hundred. Here the boys would congregate. The incoming
-mail was distributed here, and the assorting of the laundry also.
-
-Brigade drills in battle formation took place now quite frequently.
-This formation consists of sending out scouts, flankers, firing line,
-supports and reserves. At 7.30 a.m. the companies were formed into
-battalions, the battalions into regiments, and the regiments into
-brigade while they marched towards the field. Our brigade (the First)
-consisted of the First North Carolina, Second New Jersey and Second
-Illinois. As we passed out of our camp we met the First North Carolina,
-which preceded us, and the Second Illinois followed as we passed their
-camp. Route step had been ordered, for it was hot and the order from
-General Burt was to make it as little burdensome as possible. It was a
-very picturesque march. The men rolled up their sleeves, loosened their
-gunslings, and thrust their arms between them and the barrels with the
-butts up, barrel pointing down across the thigh. Others carried their
-rifles reversed to the above, then again laid them across the top of
-both shoulders.
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-Imagine the picture those three thousand men made winding in columns
-over bridges, through defiles, over fields, and through pine groves.
-Here we see the head of the column going up that hill with General
-Burt and staff leading. The General is a small man, has a light grey
-moustache and keen eyes. He does not get excited,--always has a calm
-expression. His staff are around him, all men of superior build but
-inferior rank. Every once in a while one of these will receive an order
-and instantly scurry away. Now come the men of the First North Carolina
-in uniforms of dark navy; but suddenly our view is shut out, for we are
-passing through an unused railroad cut and we see only a short distance
-ahead of us.
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-But see! There goes the first battalion of our own Second across that
-high railroad bank, and then they disappear down its side. We look
-sharp now, for we are going over a corduroy road over a stream. This
-is made of tree trunks with their branches thrown between to fill up
-the angles. Then we go up a hill, and spread out before us in the
-fine groves, are the North Carolinians in battle array along a wire
-fence. The first and third battalions of our regiment move in behind
-them and form on their left, being a continuation of the firing line.
-Our battalion is the support of our regiment. Looking back, we see
-the Illinois boys trudging over the ground we have just left. We are
-getting thoroughly interested in the movements. The Second Illinois
-marches past, taking up a position to the left of our firing line.
-We now have two lines, firing line and supports. Then the positions
-are changed. The Illinois boys are sent chasing towards the St. Johns
-river, and their cheers can be heard. We advance our columns, and soon
-come up with the men from the Windy City. The General has seen enough
-and orders a rest. The bugle kindly sounds the retreat and we pass over
-again the same ground that made our advance so picturesque.
-
-In the course of the first of these drills we had to get across a small
-stream by jumping on a board laid in the middle, and making another
-leap for safety. This process delayed our line so that the order was
-again given for double time to close up the gap. Double time under the
-best of conditions is bad enough, but at 9 a.m. on that morning the
-heat was fierce. We ran about one thousand yards and then felt as if a
-downy bed at home would just about fill the bill. However, we got over
-it all right and it has now become part of our stock of anecdotes.
-
-A rifle range had been established about two miles from camp under the
-able supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Currie, assisted by Capt. Geo.
-E. Wells and the men of G Company. The range was used by the regiments
-composing the Seventh Army Corps, each one going to the range once in
-every twenty-five days. It was in many respects similar to our State
-range at Sea Girt; but instead of a background of sea and sky which did
-not afford any relief to the eyes upon the long ranges, we had here
-dense pine trees and a high hill behind the targets, which brought them
-out very distinctly. These targets were in the shape of a man kneeling
-and the same size as those used at Sea Girt. They revolved instead of
-sliding up and down when struck. Corporal Rusk, Artificer Doerflinger,
-and Private Val. Greuter of our company were employed for two weeks in
-their construction.
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-Thursday, July 26th, we were hustled out early, and each man received
-five blank cartridges. We all knew what that meant, and our blood
-tingled through our veins in great shape. We marched in company with
-one battalion of the Second Illinois to the grounds in the near
-vicinity of our range and immediately formed in battle array. We were
-opposed by the First North Carolina and two battalions of the Second
-Illinois. Scouts and flankers were sent out from our company, the
-latter in charge of Sergeant Van Roden. Skirmishers under Sergeant
-Dabinett then advanced. The balance of the company were ordered to
-deploy and lie down. Soon shots were fired in front, then came shots
-from the right, as the scouts met the enemy and were driven in. Heavy
-volleys followed, and nearer and nearer they came. The trees and
-undergrowth were so thick we could not see very far ahead. Finally a
-volley was fired on our right center, then we saw Sergeant Dabinett
-and his skirmishers running in, perspiration streaming down their
-faces. Immediately the supports returned the fire and we were soon
-enveloped in smoke. Lieutenant Brunner's command rang out, and we
-deployed, extending the firing line,--all were now in action. Our boys
-were remarkably steady in their volley firing. Additional flankers were
-thrown out on our left and it was quite amusing to see the enemy's
-heads duck when a dozen shots were fired at them from an unexpected
-quarter. This finally brought forth a volley from the enemy, who had
-been under cover, whereupon we fell back to the main body, while the
-enemy advanced; but the recall was sounded and the "battle" was over.
-
-July 31st Private Guy L. Fake was appointed Colonel Hine's orderly.
-This was a position highly prized by the men, as the best appearing
-private was selected to fill it from the guard detail of over fifty.
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-A party of our boys went crabbing in the St. Johns river and brought
-back 201 crabs. These were distributed and we had quite a feast.
-Company F's men caught 225. The residents told us they were unfit to
-eat, but we proved to them that they were.
-
-We found in our travels very few fruits and vegetables where we had
-expected to find an abundance. In the market in Jacksonville we could
-see plenty of vegetables; but when we intimated to the dealers that
-the potatoes, cabbages, onions and carrots looked about like they did
-farther north, they laughed and said: "Well, I shouldn't wonder, for
-they came from New Jersey and Pennsylvania." A great many of the small
-fruits, such as blackberries, raspberries and strawberries, came from
-Georgia. Peaches alone were plentiful. Persimmons were occasionally
-seen. Tropical fruits, of course, were very abundant. The orange trees
-in this section were killed by the great frost of 1895, but were
-beginning to bear again. The tree was as common a sight as our pear and
-apple trees. Watermelons were so plentiful that the market was glutted
-with them, and 5 cents would buy as large a one as could be lifted. The
-storekeepers cautioned us not to buy the small ripe ones. They having
-been of slower growth, contained more of the impurities of the soil and
-were consequently more liable to cause fevers. After August 1st the
-sale of melons was prohibited.
-
-The sweet potatoes were considerably darker than those grown farther
-north and much sweeter. The colored people made very good pies out of
-them, which they peddled in the camp. These pies were quite similar
-to our pumpkin pies in appearance. With this scarcity of fruits and
-vegetables it was no wonder that we jumped for joy when a box was
-received from home which contained, among other things, a can of
-preserved blackberries and three solid cucumbers, the seed of which
-latter had been planted by the writer when home on furlough the day
-before the regiment started south.
-
-
-
-
-PART FIFTH
-
-
-
-
-AUGUST 1898
-
-ITS BRIGHT AND GLOOMY DAYS
-
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-On Tuesday evening, August 2d, the officers of the regiment gave a lawn
-party in camp. A platform was built in front of Colonel Hine's tent,
-and trees and shrubbery surrounded it in such a natural way that one
-would have thought it had been placed in a grove. The affair was quite
-successful and was graced by the presence of General Lee and staff,
-with the Generals and Colonels of the different brigades and regiments
-encamped here, besides notables from Jacksonville.
-
-Thursday, August 4th, we had another sham battle, and this time we
-were the attacking force, composed of our regiment and one battalion
-of the First North Carolina. Opposed to us on the defensive were
-two battalions of the First North Carolina and the Second Illinois
-regiment. About one mile from camp our advance guard came upon the
-enemy concealed in a ravine, along which they had deployed, and a
-rapid exchange of shots took place. Company after company of our
-regiment were deployed on the run to their skirmish lines. As each
-company arrived it immediately engaged the enemy. Our company being
-last in order of march, we had longer to run, and we were placed far on
-the enemy's right. In fact, we succeeded completely in turning their
-right flank back, so that their whole line was like a bent bow. Our
-company pushed through and over fences and came upon the enemy lying
-behind a fence at the rear of a house. Here the fire was the hottest,
-and at one time our lines were within fifty feet of each other, but
-just able to see through the bushes that lined the yard.
-
-The boys nicknamed this "the back-yard skirmish." Reinforcements
-arriving, we gradually extended our lines, so that the foe were having
-a hot fire upon three sides at once. Expecting a general advance along
-the lines at this time, we held our fire, as only ten blank cartridges
-had been given us and we had used up nearly all of them. We lay on
-the ground in the hot sun, perspiring from every pore, expecting every
-minute to receive the word. Rapid firing was going on on our extreme
-left and center and away off to the right the volleys were thundering.
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-This was a sore temptation to the boys, who every once in a while
-popped away wherever they saw a head emerge from the tall grass, and
-it delighted them greatly to see the individual drop as he heard the
-report, seemingly ashamed to find that the other fellow had the "drop"
-on him. Sudden cheering from the center was the signal for our advance.
-This time we only ran about ten yards and then dropped like a flash,
-for the enemy was about to pour a volley into us. Just at this moment
-the bugle sounded the "cease firing" and then the "assembly." When
-the firing ceased we had our opponents nearly surrounded. One man was
-hurt slightly with a bayonet. It was a great victory for the Second
-New Jersey. Lieutenant Brunner, the only one of Company L's officers
-present, had a hard time trying to keep his command under control,
-and succeeded extremely well, deserving the highest praise, the
-non-commissioned officers and men conforming to his commands promptly
-and with energy.
-
-Friday morning at company drill Lieutenant Brunner sent the first
-platoon out through the woods and five minutes later the second to
-find the first. The second, under Sergeant Van Roden, took a short cut
-to intercept the first, which was under Sergeant Charles Dabinett,
-and this was what happened: We (the second) took post behind a shed
-in a deserted yard. I was stationed with four men along a fence from
-which some of the boards were missing. Sergeant Collins, with Private
-Craig and two others, went out and as the first platoon appeared these
-four set up a great shouting, luring them on past our ambuscade. The
-long legged men of the first were so intent upon coming up with the
-second, represented by Sergeant Collins and three men, whose heads
-only could be seen above the tall grass and bushes, that one section
-under Corporal Cohen went fairly and squarely into the trap set for
-them. But, unlike the rough riders, they could not get out again, for
-my detail, getting in their rear and being reinforced by the rest of
-the platoon, they were soon disarmed. The first section with Sergeant
-Dabinett coming to their relief were also taken into camp.
-
-Lessons of this sort were likely to be of great benefit to the boys,
-especially as parts of our company were usually thrown out as flankers
-for the regiment, and taught them to be on their guard continually.
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-Towards the middle of August the climate began to tell on the boys.
-During June the ground was very dry and the atmosphere was clear and
-full of the odor of pines. In July the rains commenced, and hardly did
-the torrent cease before the sun set everything steaming. Vapor at
-night rose from the ground in greater quantities and it was not long
-before the hospitals were taxed to their utmost. In a great many cases
-home sickness would lead the way, while in others it was excesses. The
-number became so great that details from each company were sent to the
-hospital as assistants.
-
-The sickness was also felt among the officers. During Captain Ely's
-leave of absence Lieutenant Blake was taken down with malarial fever
-and procured leave to go up the St. Johns to weather the malady. In
-the midst of this season of sickness (although not the worst by far)
-occurred the passing away of Private Jacob Kotzenberg of typhoid, the
-first patriot of our command and the second in the regiment, just
-upon the eve of dawning peace. He was buried with honors near his
-home after befitting services, both at Jacksonville and Rutherford.
-This death stirred our people greatly and set them all to thinking.
-The peace preliminaries had been signed and our victorious armies and
-navy enjoined from making further hostile advances. The return of the
-soldiers was eagerly discussed, for it was felt that others in our
-southern army might pass away at any time.
-
-One week had hardly passed when two more of our comrades gave up their
-lives. Dread typhoid hovered over the camp and only the most hardy
-withstood its withering touch. These devoted lives were Private Henry
-Newman of Paterson and Corporal Bennett Cohen of Rutherford. The latter
-was my tent-mate and warm friend and I knew him best. At no other time
-during our service had such a desolate feeling spread over our camp.
-It rained frequently, the nights were gloomy and damp, and some of our
-most popular boys had gone to the hospital.
-
-Our folks at home were clamoring for our return. Horrible stories were
-afloat there of our treatment. The unhealthfulness of the camp was such
-and lately such terrific downpours of rain had flooded everything, that
-camps on lower ground had become untenantable, so one morning when
-we found that our neighbor, the Second Virginia, had packed up and
-moved farther west, we felt that something must be done to break the
-monotonous gloomy aspect. Our boys were sickening rapidly, and only a
-few days before one of our most popular corporals had been taken from
-the street a hopeless case. We knew it as we saw him depart and pitied
-the poor fellow.
-
-Soon after our arrival at camp orders had been issued prescribing a
-method of drying the ground under the tents, which had been provided
-with board floors. Strange to say, this order had been overlooked up
-to the present time, when it was enforced, and during the day the
-tents were shifted and the floors raised. Lime which was obtained at
-the Commissary's was liberally sprinkled around. The deaths in our
-Company proved that it was not the best thing in the world to sleep
-near the ground, from which rose malarial vapors. Sergeants Clift,
-Dabinett, Collins and Baxter, and Corporals Rusk and myself slept on
-cots and in hammocks and we kept good health, while, on the other hand,
-Corporals Cohen and Roe and Privates Kotzenberg and Newman had slept
-on the ground. One evening my hammock broke and I lay on the floor the
-rest of the night. The next morning I awoke with a decidedly heavy,
-listless feeling and made haste to mend my hammock, for I attributed
-that feeling to lying so near the earth. The camps all around had their
-tent floors two and three feet off the ground, and in nearly all the
-regiments which were under trees platforms were built in them on which
-the boys slept.
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-
-"AND SOON NOT FORTY MEN OUT OF 101 ANSWERED THE ROLL."]
-
-One morning, instead of a monotonous drill, the Company marched out
-into the country past the camps of regiments which had departed. In the
-Fourth Illinois camp the pools of water were knee deep and a bridge had
-been built to connect two battalions. This Regiment suffered greatly.
-It was under such conditions as these that the welcome order was
-received directing our Company to proceed to Pablo Beach on provost
-duty. This beach is one of the finest along the Atlantic coast and
-extends for eighteen miles north and south. Parties frequently make the
-trip to St. Augustine in carriages along its entire length. Bright and
-early Friday, August 23d, baggage and knapsacks were loaded on army
-wagons and eight o'clock found us moving towards Jacksonville to take
-ferry and train to the seashore. The handsome uniform of our regiment
-was always a subject of remark whenever we turned out for parade. This
-consisted of buff campaign hats, dark blue blouse, light blue trousers,
-with white stripes for the officers and non-coms, brown leggings, and
-in beautiful contrast was our red blanket in a roll from the left
-shoulder to the right hip. Our fancy friends of the Twenty-second and
-Twenty-third New York Regiments could not beat that combination.
-
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-Our spirits had been rising higher and higher and on the boat songs and
-jests livened things up. A curious incident of this trip is the fact
-that we crossed on the old ferryboat "Commodore Barney," built in 1857
-for passenger service between New York and Brooklyn. It was transposed
-during the civil war, so the story runs, into a mushroom gunboat and
-stationed somewhere near Norfolk, Va. It was used also as a transport,
-and five years ago it took the trip south. On our left, tied up to
-wharves, were the filibusters "Three Friends" and "Dauntless," both of
-which did about as much toward bringing on the war as anything else. On
-the east side of the river were two wrecks, one a ferryboat, the other
-a sloop, both of which have been laying there for years and apparently
-in pretty good condition yet, typical of the want of energy to build up
-and prosper in spite of obstacles so often seen in the far south.
-
-We were loaded on lumber cars. The smoke from the engine nearly
-suffocated us as we shifted in our seats to relieve ourselves from
-the rocking and jolting we got from the uneven tracks and springless
-cars. We covered the seventeen miles in about forty-five minutes. This
-included stops to take on wood for the engine. This stopping for wood
-must always be included in the time of traveling on the railroads of
-the Black belt, and it never failed to bring forth bright comments
-and jests from the boys, who found a great deal of amusement in it.
-We arrived safe and sound. It was this trip, however, that completely
-broke me down and I reported at the hospital soon after our arrival.
-
-That night demons, snakes and alligators lurked in every corner.
-Fortunately my efforts at dislodging them threw me into a drenching
-perspiration, which broke up the high fever, after which I felt
-better. I was off duty for five days and afterwards enjoyed our stay
-at this place. The salt air brought out all the evil fevers which had
-gotten into our systems at Jacksonville and soon not forty men out of
-one hundred answered the roll. The duty was light, but we often found
-it necessary at times to appeal to the other companies on duty with
-us to help us out, so that some of our men should not go on duty two
-days in succession. We were particularly short in our non-commissioned
-officers. Out of six Sergeants and ten Corporals only Sergeant Baxter
-and myself were available for a whole week, Corporal Rusk having charge
-of the Quartermaster's Department, the rest being either sick or on
-furlough. A great many of our friends have been in hospitals, but
-have any of them seen the effects of typhoid after the most rigorous
-measures have been taken? Over four hundred men were at a convalescent
-hospital near the beach and they were in all stages of recovery. A
-few did not get well. On the ground floor were men who had fought the
-malady sufficiently to walk around and fold up their mattresses every
-morning. The floor space these occupied was needed in the day time.
-At every meal nourishing food was served and nearly two hundred young
-men stood in line, some with camp stools to rest upon every few steps.
-Oatmeal, rice and soups formed the principal diet, varied sometimes on
-Sunday by something more solid. But it was the general appearance of
-the poor fellows that sent a wave of sadness over me. "Who knows," said
-I, "but I may be like one of these myself some day." These invalids
-were improving, however. But upstairs, the more recent arrivals were
-lying upon cots, helpless, gazing into space, their teeth showing
-between bands of white skin once full red lips, a wasted arm thrust out
-with the flesh between the bones shrunken. A terrible sight. The boys
-who so bravely marched to war wanted now only to see the dear home once
-more.
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-The food issued to the company at this time was about the same as
-it had always been, but once or twice a day we were sure of some
-combination of the coarse food that would astonish and delight us,
-thanks to the skill of a competent black cook, Bob by name, who had
-seen considerable service on board tugs and other craft around the city
-of Jacksonville, and also to the tireless persistent devotion to his
-duty of our Quartermaster, who succeeded in obtaining oat meal, sugar,
-raisins and other things not on Uncle Sam's bill of fare. Oat meal and
-milk, which savored of our northern homes, was furnished to the sick of
-the company.
-
-After the first two weeks at this camp those who had been in the
-hospital and those who had withstood the fever so far began to brighten
-and to gain strength and they continued to do so until we started for
-home, and also because of two conditions--our position at the seashore
-and our well cooked food. The morning after our arrival we were struck
-with consternation on hearing of Corporal George H. Roe's death at
-Jacksonville. His was a serious case when he was taken from camp and we
-heard no encouraging news from him; but nevertheless when the message
-reached us it was quite a shock. He was Senior Corporal in the Company
-and was extremely popular. His body was sent to his home in Auburn,
-N.Y., where it was met by a bereaved mother and carefully laid away
-near the side of his father.
-
-Two days after the death of Corporal Roe occurred the tragic death of
-Private Peter Reddy by drowning in the surf. He evidently got beyond
-his depth and was caught in an undertow which speedily exhausted his
-strength. Private John B. Buck, of Company B, Second Alabama, seeing
-Reddy's danger, immediately swam out to his assistance and after an
-heroic struggle finally brought him, already dead, within reach of
-willing hands. But all the efforts at resuscitating him were unavailing
-and the surgeon pronounced him dead. Not being satisfied with this
-official announcement, his comrades carried him to the company street
-and worked over him for nearly an hour, but without result. He left at
-home a wife and three young children. The Company felt these two deaths
-severely. We had now lost five men from the ranks. Men were going to
-the hospital daily, and we wondered on whom the lightning would next
-fall.
-
-In the midst of all this gloom suddenly appeared the commission
-appointed by the Governor to investigate the condition of the Second
-and its willingness and fitness to proceed to Cuba. This commission was
-composed of Gen. Bird W. Spencer, Inspector General of Rifle Practice
-State of New Jersey, Senator William M. Johnson, and ex-Judge James M.
-Van Valen. General Spencer polled the nine companies at Jacksonville
-camp and the one on provost guard in the city; Senator Johnson, Company
-G, in charge of the rifle range, and Judge Van Valen, our Company at
-the seashore. I was delighted to be recognized by the Judge as the son
-of a once close friend of his. The result of the poll determined the
-Governor to petition the War Department to have our Regiment mustered
-out.
-
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-
-
-PART SIXTH
-
-
-
-
-PABLO BEACH AND THE JOURNEY HOME
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-September 2d the Regiment moved down and occupied the ground to the
-south of us about one mile and one hundred yards from the ocean. The
-ground was covered with scrub palmettos, the roots of which ran all
-over the ground. This necessitated considerable axe work before tents
-could be pitched, and it was late in the evening when the camp was
-finally in a condition to sleep. Rattlesnakes seemed all too plentiful
-in this scrub and boldly invaded the camp. One careless young man
-crawled into his tent without first exploring its interior and was
-badly bitten by one of these horrible reptiles. The idea of sleeping
-amongst such bedfellows was anything but pleasant, and the weather now
-becoming stormy and cooler, the danger from the snakes increased, for
-they had a natural tendency to seek the warmth which they could find
-alongside a sleeping body. Before we left other regiments camped to
-the south of our Regiment, notably Colonel Bryan's Nebraskan.
-
-A favorable pastime of the boys was to go out to the beach at daylight
-for a swim in the surf and incidentally gather the pretty delicate
-ribbed shells, which seemed to reflect all the rays of the rising sun,
-which here shone out in all its glory. This King of Day made a most
-gorgeous picture, such as I had believed existed only in an artist's
-very elastic imagination. His golden shafts of beauty will never fade
-from my memory. We made quite a collection of shells and sent them
-home. There were two vacancies among the Corporals owing to the deaths
-of Roe and Cohen. Charles H. Wallis and Ed W. Killmer were appointed to
-fill those positions.
-
-One evening, some time after taps had sounded and just as the boys had
-begun to have a drowsy feeling that sleeping on pine boards wasn't so
-very bad after all, a considerable commotion was raised in camp by the
-cry of fire. We hurriedly kicked off our blankets, gave a hitch or two
-to our trousers to keep them on, and then sallied out. One of the four
-frame houses at the north edge of our camp was on fire. These houses
-were built of only one thickness of board, having no plaster or lath.
-Standing in front and looking sharp, one could see pigs rooting behind
-the house. The building was like tinder and burned fiercely.
-
-As we passed the quarters of the company of Texans who were on guard
-with us, their bugler was trying to blow his head off with a lot of
-weird, shrill blasts, which their Captain kindly explained in forcible
-language was the "fire-call," and he'd be so and so if he wouldn't
-court-martial every son of a Texan if they didn't fall in and obey
-orders. There was considerable confusion around the house for a while,
-but the soldiers soon got to work under the leadership of the officers.
-Members of our Company climbed up the front porch and to the roof of
-the adjoining house, not thirty feet away, and sat there for over an
-hour wetting the roof and sides, while the steam floated around them.
-During the conflagration the half wild hogs and their litters would
-run up close to the flames, stare stupidly into the cauldron until it
-became too hot for them, when they would scamper away, grunting and
-squealing, into the brush. The house burned completely up, for not a
-stick was visible after it died out.
-
-At this time we received word that the Regiment was to be mustered
-out, and a Regular Army officer who had been detailed to our Regiment
-ordered us to prepare our books for transmission to the War Department.
-This writing up of the records was a complete revelation to the
-companies. Not one in the Regiment had made any successful attempt to
-keep the books properly. G Company probably came the nearest to it, and
-theirs were the first to be O K'd. But it was over two weeks after the
-order was issued before the mustering officers could state just when
-the Regiment could start for home.
-
-The final week proved a busy one indeed and the patience of the
-clerical force of the Regiment was tried sorely. Sergeant Baxter,
-Private Stevens and myself were detailed for this work, and we kept at
-it every day and sometimes far into the night. No instructions other
-than verbal had been given to start the machinery in motion. Nobody
-seemed to know just what should be done. Tedious work performed with
-care had to be done over again. Missing orders, letters and other
-documents had to be accounted for and records which could not be
-procured had to have affidavits made out to that effect.
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-When the men of the National Guard were mustered into service they had
-the uniform given them by the State, which in some instances had been
-worn over four years. They also received at Sea Girt new suits of State
-uniforms to replace old ones and got them with the understanding that
-the State would not charge for them. In one or two instances clothes
-were torn to get a new suit. Now the United States charges these same
-National Guardsmen for two suits of clothes--the suit which had been
-worn four years and the new one which did not fit, and in many cases
-had never been worn. The total amount charged us by the Government
-was over twenty-one dollars and this amount was deducted from each
-soldier's clothing allowance in the last payment.
-
-The final order for striking tents was received on the 20th of
-September, and daylight of the 22d found us all ready to throw the
-tents, strap on our knapsacks and start home. The tents and baggage
-of the Company had to be loaded on flat cars. To do this a car of
-lumber had to be unloaded. It belonged to Colonel Bryan's Regiment and
-his men were going at the unloading in such a matter of fact way as
-to exasperate Lieutenant Blake, and at his order a dozen of our boys
-jumped on the load and commenced to get rid of it in such a way as to
-open the eyes of the Nebraskans. They were roundly chafed by their
-Lieutenant "for allowing a lot of Jerseymen to put you to sleep in
-unloading lumber, you who have handled it all your lives."
-
-After this was completed the Company's luggage was packed away solidly
-upon this car and we were called into company formation ready for the
-train; but the railroad could only take one battalion at a time and
-it was after 1 o'clock before we could get started. The train had
-passed through a heavy shower and the floors of each car and the wooden
-bottoms to the seats were deep in water which had come in at the open
-windows. A heavy shower drenched us as we marched through Jacksonville.
-The boys received hearty handshakes from the friends they had made.
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-We were worrying about our wet blankets, which were strapped on top
-of our knapsacks, when we were ushered into Pullman sleeping coaches.
-It was an agreeable surprise and we immediately proceeded to ensconce
-ourselves in the most comfortable positions. In a short time, amid
-a lot of noise and banging of cartridges, we drew out of the depot,
-scurried out past camps and through groves, catching a glimpse of
-Torrey's rough riders, with whom we had left one of our number, out
-over rushing torrents, swelled to overflowing by the recent rains and
-covering vast areas with their yellow tumbling waters.
-
-These we passed cautiously for fear of washouts. As we passed to the
-rear of Savannah it grew dark; but sitting musing at the window
-I could not help noting the wild, desolate region we were passing
-through. Here and there stood some giant tree stark naked in the
-moonlight and swaying from the branches, with gruesome effect, was that
-remarkable product of nature, Spanish or Florida moss, and I could not
-help recalling the shuddering stories told by Sherman's troopers of
-ghosts and dead men, clanking chains and bloodhounds of the Southern
-forest. The palmettos reared their shaggy heads in outline against the
-sky, for all the world like a jack-in-the-box of our childhood days;
-but I was here interrupted by my bedfellow, who insisted on my turning
-in, which I reluctantly did. But wasn't it jolly to lay on something
-softer than a plank? And after being served with our old stand-by,
-coffee, from a bathtub, we slept soundly.
-
-We passed through Columbia, South Carolina, due north to Charlotte,
-North Carolina, and Salisbury, Greensboro, to Danville, Virginia,
-places made historic by Sherman and after the surrender at Appomattox.
-We stopped nearly an hour at Danville, and when we finally started
-again had a goodly stock of everything to eat. Up to this point we had
-passed acres of cotton in bloom, that farther south being taller and
-handsomer plants, and every stop brought portions of the royal plant
-of the South into the cars. In the early days of the Civil War the
-triumphant voice of the Confederacy proclaimed "King Cotton rules the
-earth." But before that strife of brothers ended the thunderous tones
-of the North drowned that in the South with "Corn, not Cotton, is
-King," and verily it proved so.
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-Lynchburg and Charlotteville, Virginia, ushered us into the tobacco
-district. But we saw very little of this plant, for it had just been
-gathered. Darkness settled down on us before reaching the latter
-town. Coffee awaited us there, and we were roused up at 10 o'clock
-to receive it in its virgin liquid purity. Nearly half the car as a
-result was awake all the rest of the night. At 4 a.m. on Saturday, we
-reached Washington and were greatly surprised and pleased to find that
-a bountiful lunch had been prepared for us by the good and thoughtful
-women of the Pension Bureau--grapes, apples, sandwiches and the best
-coffee we had had for five months. There will always remain in years
-to come one warm spot in the heart of each one of our boys for the
-patriotic devotion of these excellent women.
-
-But now came a kaleidoscopic change. Instead of indifferently
-cultivated fields, barren wastes and swamps, behold here were
-fields teeming with corn and garden truck of all kinds. The farmers
-were out with their men hilling up the rows of celery, parsley and
-onions; fine pasture lands spread out before us; well fed cattle
-standing contentedly under drooping willows, and, to crown all,
-well built, substantial farm houses and barns, all denoted with an
-unmistakable stamp that which can be seen all through our Northern
-states--prosperity. Baltimore was reached at 7, Wilmington at 8, and
-Philadelphia at about 10 in the morning.
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-From Washington we had the extreme pleasure of going real fast, our
-train now running over the double tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
-Speculation was rife as to when we would reach Sea Girt. Every stop
-or slow down would surely bring forth an impatient exclamation, and
-then wagers would be made all over again. But while this was going on
-we passed over the Delaware, and as the Jersey side was reached the
-enthusiasm vented itself in cheers, as we fully realized how near we
-were to home, and then how we did make time. We fairly seemed to fly,
-but it was all too slow, past farming-lands one acre of which was
-worth a dozen in the South; apple trees loaded with ripe fruit; fields
-of corn ready for the sickle, yellow pumpkins, savoring of delicious
-pies; _these_ were familiar home scenes, but temporarily lost sight of
-in our recent surroundings; past historic New Brunswick, Freehold and
-Princeton. At about 1.30 we pulled into Manasquan with Camp Voorhees
-in plain sight. Here we unloaded and, escorted by the Fourth Regiment
-Band, marched to camp, where Company L was taken in tow by Company L of
-the Fourth, and so on through the battalion. But it was a sight to see
-the fine rosy potatoes they had and the butter, "all you want on your
-bread." We marveled greatly, to say the least. This lunch was quickly
-over, and we boarded our section again. After several tedious waits we
-finally reached Rutherford a little before 7 in the evening, amid red
-fire and exploding crackers.
-
-Through a dense mass of humanity the company marched. The scenes
-attending our leaving for the war were again enacted, but with
-three-fold vigor. Our relatives and friends struggled desperately to
-break through and forcibly grasp some husband, brother or son, and
-failing in this, would hysterically call out. Some were weeping, some
-were laughing, but it was all joy unalloyed. Our drill and discipline
-told to advantage here, and we succeeded in keeping our line, otherwise
-we would have been scattered to the winds.
-
-We were formally welcomed back by Mayor Turner, representing the
-people of Rutherford and surrounding towns, and invited to partake of
-a banquet in the near future. Lieutenant Blake now saw that it was
-useless to try and hold the men together longer, so the final command
-to break ranks was given and then every man "Tommy" of us was hugged as
-he had never been hugged before. One week later the company assembled
-at Sea Girt and there received their furloughs, which held good until
-the final muster out at Paterson, November 21, 1898.
-
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-
-The month of May, 1898, had not passed before relief committees had
-organized for the purpose of looking after the families of those
-soldiers of the National Guard who decided that their duty to the State
-and the country demanded their presence at the front, and little ones
-at home were left without a bread winner and protector.
-
-The members of this Relief Committee were Mayor E.J. Turner of
-Rutherford, Mayor William McKenzie of East Rutherford, Rev. J.Y.
-Hubach, and Messrs. Charles Burrows, Oscar Gunz, William H. Smith,
-James Leyland, Cornelius Collins, Edward A. Jeanneret, James A. Morgan,
-William H. Taylor and P.B.S. Hodges. This committee received a total of
-$1,218.64, all of which was spent in the good cause.
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-Sunday, July 10th, a Service of Thanksgiving took place at Grace
-Episcopal Church. Special prayers were offered for sick and wounded
-soldiers and sailors, and for those who mourned dead heroes. It was
-in accordance with the proclamation issued by the President, and the
-sermon by the Rev. Henry M. Ladd, was along National lines, emphasizing
-the duties of the Christian soldier. After the presentation of the
-offering, the congregation and clergyman read antiphonally the psalm
-for thanksgiving after a naval victory, singing at its close the
-"Gloria in Excelsis." The service closed with the prayer of thanks for
-victory at sea, and a prayer for peace, followed by the Benediction.
-
-It was a stirring service, and to have taken part in it was the event
-of a lifetime, and not likely to be repeated. Services of like nature
-were held in all the churches.
-
-Tuesday evening, July 26th, a number of kindly volunteers, under
-the auspices of the Relief Committee, gave an entertainment in the
-Armory, which netted about $150. It was an excellent one, combining
-serio-comic drama with highly cultured singing and pleasing tableaux.
-The names of these devoted friends were as follows: "A Quiet Family,"
-Messrs. George H. Whitman, James A. Morgan, Mrs. Mary Davis, Miss
-Lizzie Davis; orchestra, Mr. Louis Baxter and others; Grace Church
-choir, Mr. Charles H. Sunderland, leader, Mrs. T.N. Glover, Mrs.
-McAvoy, Mrs. Sunderland, the Misses D. Stevens, B. Stevens, Fanton,
-Williams, Reece, Johnstone, Smith, Elliott, Semken, Cosse and Haywood,
-and Messrs. Douglass, Barrows, Elliott, MacAdee, Parker, Critchley,
-Ahrens, Burns, Brown, Green, Shaw and Wilkins; tableaux: Miss Maude
-MacHarg, Mr. Wilkin Bookstaver and the rest of the company.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Another entertainment took place Thursday, July 28, which was very
-successful, the net proceeds being $91, and was sent to Jacksonville
-to provide better food for the sick of the company. The entertainment
-was managed by Mrs. W.E. Fullagar, who took considerable interest
-in the welfare of the company (she and her husband being with us at
-Jacksonville and Pablo Beach for nearly a month). Those taking part
-deserve to have a place in this narrative, and they follow: Mrs. M.
-Casta, Mr. Louis Baxter, Miss Mae Games Amery, Mr. L. Botting, Miss
-Nettie Dannheim, Mr. Arthur H. Hargrave, the Concordia Maennerchor
-of Carlstadt, Miss Mabel Taylor King, and six members of the Kirmess
-"Hornpipe Dance." Captain Ely, home on furlough, told anecdotes of camp
-life, which were very interesting. Another entertainment took place the
-week we arrived home, the proceeds of which were given to the Relief
-Committee.
-
-One year had passed when the company again assembled upon the
-anniversary of its return from camp life; old friendships were renewed,
-and yarns spun, while the good things disappeared at the well-spread
-table.
-
-September 30th, 1899, the company paraded through the streets of New
-York on the occasion of the welcome to Admiral George Dewey, and all
-along the line patriotic citizens gave its enthusiastic endorsement of
-the manly devotion to the flag which L Company maintained through five
-months of trying camp life in Southern climes.
-
-
-
-
-PART SEVENTH
-
-
-
-
-ROSTER OF L COMPANY.
-
-
-CAPTAIN.
-
-                             _P.O. Address._
-
- Addison Ely               Rutherford, N.J.
-
-
-FIRST LIEUTENANT.
-
- Joseph J. Blake                Rutherford.
-
-
-SECOND LIEUTENANT.
-
- Robert A. Brunner              Rutherford.
-
-
-FIRST SERGEANT.
-
- Edward M. Clift                Rutherford.
-
-
-QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT.
-
- Addison Ely, Jr.               Rutherford.
-
-
-SERGEANTS.
-
- Charles Dabinett               Rutherford.
- Frank Van Roden                Rutherford.
- John T. Collins                Rutherford.
- Frederick W. Baxter            Rutherford.
-
-
-CORPORALS.
-
- George H. Roe                  Rutherford.
- Hugh R. Rusk                   Rutherford.
- Bennett Cohen                  Rutherford.
- George W. Petty                Rutherford.
- William M. Cormack             Rutherford.
- Robert A. Burgess              Rutherford.
- Frank Koch                     Rutherford.
- Harry C. Harrington            Rutherford.
- Walter Vandenburgh             Rutherford.
- John Festanau                  Rutherford.
- Walter S. Major                Rutherford.
- Frank T. Yerreance             Rutherford.
-
-
-MUSICIANS.
-
- John F. Quinn                    Paterson.
- William Allen                    Paterson.
-
-
-ARTIFICER.
-
- Julius W. Doerflinger           Woodridge.
-
-
-WAGONER.
-
- William Jonsen                 Rutherford.
-
-
-PRIVATES.
-
- Alverson, August               Rutherford.
- Balletto, Frank                Rutherford.
- Baxter, Charles H.             Rutherford.
- Brazer, William                Rutherford.
- Beutelspacher, Theodore         Carlstadt.
- Clift, George S.                  Passaic.
- Clark, John E.                 Rutherford.
- Craig, Robert L.             Little Ferry.
- Crear, Lyman S.                Rutherford.
- Connelly, John                 Rutherford.
- Dabinett, John                 Rutherford.
- Dabinett, Henry R.             Rutherford.
- Dehn, Lawrence C.               Lyndhurst.
- Doyle, Thomas W.               Rutherford.
- DeWitt, William                Rutherford.
- Earley, Albert                   Paterson.
- Fake, Guy L.                   Rutherford.
- Fullagar, John E.              Rutherford.
- Feder, David                     Paterson.
- Gaffney, Peter                 Rutherford.
- Gillen, Alexander P.      Washington, D.C.
- Girard, Emile L.               Rutherford.
- Greuter, Valentine              Woodridge.
- Greuter, Frank J.              Rutherford.
- Hey, Alfred J.                 Rutherford.
- Hannon, Thomas O.                Paterson.
- Heintzman, Louis E.            Rutherford.
- Hollenstein, George W.          Carlstadt.
- Hope, Edward F.                Rutherford.
- Hobson, Winfield B.              Paterson.
- Hollenbeck, Charles            Rutherford.
- Hopper, Irving                 Rutherford.
- Horton, Jay T.                   Paterson.
- Huen, Henry A.                   Paterson.
- Kotzenberg, John J.            Rutherford.
- Kellerman, Otto                Rutherford.
- Killmer, Edward W.             Rutherford.
- Kent, Walter D.                Rutherford.
- Lees, William C.              Jersey City.
- Major, Daniel                  Rutherford.
- Miller, John W.                Rutherford.
- Miller, William H.             Rutherford.
- Miller, James A.               Rutherford.
- MacDonough, Thomas             Rutherford.
- Macher, Walter                  Carlstadt.
- McKeown, James F.                Paterson.
- McIntyre, Thomas                Kingsland.
- McBride, William H.              Paterson.
- Newman, Henry                    Paterson.
- Newland, Charles W.            Rutherford.
- Nohrden, Otto                  Rutherford.
- O'Niel, William H.             Rutherford.
- Parkhill, John               Carlton Hill.
- Platz, Henry                    Carlstadt.
- Reddy, Peter                   Rutherford.
- Rhoads, Henry W.             Carlton Hill.
- Rodgers, Robert                  Paterson.
- Rohrbach, Aaron                Rutherford.
- Ratsch, John                   Rutherford.
- Schrieber, Curt                Rutherford.
- Schrieber, John J.             Rutherford.
- Schaefer, Louis                 Carlstadt.
- Schulz, Otto                    Carlstadt.
- Smith, John                    Rutherford.
- Smith, Walter F.               Rutherford.
- Smith, Gustav                  Rutherford.
- Stephens, John J.            Carlton Hill.
- Stephens, J.                    Carlstadt.
- Stevens, Arthur W.             Rutherford.
- Stevens, Frank W.       Hasbrouck Heights.
- Toense, Albert                 Rutherford.
- Thompson, Matthew              Rutherford.
- Trent, Decatur                 Rutherford.
- Van Roden, Arthur C.           Rutherford.
- Van Caders, Cornelius          Hackensack.
- Van Austinbridge, Nicholas       Paterson.
- Ward, George E.                Rutherford.
- Wallis, Charles H.             Rutherford.
- Weber, Oscar                    Carlstadt.
- Willis, Edgar E.               Rutherford.
- Willis, Joseph T.              Rutherford.
- Wirtz, William                   Paterson.
- Wilson, Isaac, Jr.             Rutherford.
- Yetter, Conrad                  Carlstadt.
-
-
-PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC.
-
-
-Captain Ely, Provost Marshal, City of Jacksonville.
-
-Sergeant Ely, Brigade Color-Sergeant.
-
-Sergeant Collins, Regimental Color-Sergeant.
-
-Corporal Vandenburgh, Clerk at Corps Headquarters.
-
-Private Alverson, promoted to be Artificer, vice Doerflinger, reduced
-at his own request.
-
-Private Baxter, discharged for disability.
-
-Private Crear, transferred to Troop B, 2d U.S. Vol. Cavalry.
-
-Private Doyle, Clerk to Provost Marshal.
-
-Private Gillen, transferred to hospital at Washington, D.C.
-
-Private Greuter, Corral Master with rank of Lance Corporal.
-
-Private Hild, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.
-
-Private Horton, stenographer, Adjutant's office.
-
-Private Kent, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.
-
-Private Killmer, promoted to be Corporal, September 1, 1898.
-
-Private Linzell, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.
-
-Private Schmidt, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.
-
-Private F.M. Stevens, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.
-
-Private Wallis, promoted to be Corporal, September 1, 1898.
-
-
-DEATHS.
-
-
-Private Kotzenberg, died August 12, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Carlstadt.
-
-Private Newman, died August 18, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Paterson.
-
-Corporal Cohen, died August 19, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Carlstadt.
-
-Corporal Roe, died August 26, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Auburn, N.Y.
-
-Private Reddy, drowned August 29, 1898, at Pablo Beach, Fla. Buried at
-Lyndhurst, N.J.
-
-Lance Corporal Frank Greuter, died November 7, 1898. Buried at
-Carlstadt.
-
-Private Valentine Greuter, died July 29, 1899. Buried at Carlstadt.
-
-
- "God bless our native land
- Firm may she ever stand
- Through storm and night."
-
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-<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN CAMP WITH L COMPANY ***</div>
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-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos01.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="caption" style="margin-bottom: 10em;"> "STARTS US ON OUR JOURNEY AND THE BEGINNING OF OUR
-LITTLE WORLD OF WARFARE."</p>
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-<p class="ph1a" style="margin-left: 33%;">IN CAMP WITH</p>
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-<p class="ph1a" style="margin-left: 43%;">L COMPANY</p>
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p class="ph3" style="margin-top: 5em;">Second Regiment</p>
-
-<p class="ph3">New Jersey Volunteer Infantry</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="ph6" style="margin-top: 5em;">BY</p>
-
-<p class="ph4">CORPORAL GEORGE W. PETTY</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus05.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
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-
-
-<p class="ph6" style="margin-top: 10em;" >WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO.<br />
-PRINTERS<br />
-NEW YORK AND ALBANY</p>
-
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-<p class="ph3" style="margin-top: 10em;">To the officers, and the men in the ranks, of my company, and to the
-memory of departed comrades, this book is respectfully dedicated.</p>
-
-
-<p class="ph5" style="margin-left: 45%;"><span class="smcap">The Author</span></p>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph4" style="margin-top: 10em;">"God of all nations! Sovereign Lord!<br />
-In Thy dread name we draw the sword<br />
-We lift the starry flag on high<br />
-That fills with light our stormy sky."</p>
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-
-
-
-<p class="ph2">PREFACE</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>In writing this book it has not been my purpose to compile a history
-of our Company, which would necessitate the gathering together of its
-records, which of themselves would be dry and uninteresting to the
-average reader, but such a narrative as would give to our friends a
-wider knowledge of our everyday life while in the service, and to my
-comrades that feeling of kinship so dear to the soldier's heart.</p>
-
-
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART FIRST</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">THE MUSTERING</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus01.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="drop">C<span class="uppercase">ompany L</span> was organized and mustered into the State service June
-22, 1893, and assigned as the 11th company of the Second Regiment
-with headquarters at Paterson, with the following officers: Addison
-Ely, Captain; Wilkin Bookstaver, First Lieutenant; Joseph J. Blake,
-Second Lieutenant. Lieutenant Bookstaver resigned in February, 1896,
-Lieutenant Blake was promoted to First Lieutenant and First Sergeant
-Robert A. Brunner was promoted to Second Lieutenant. From its first
-season at rifle practice the Company was a decided factor in the
-making up of the State records; the first year, out of fifty-six
-companies it stood sixth, in 1895 it was fourth and in 1897 second
-on the list with ten sharpshooters and fifty-eight marksmen, pushing
-Company C of Paterson hard for first honors, that company having twelve
-sharpshooters and sixty marksmen. A match was arranged<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> in the fall of
-'97 between the companies composing the Second Battalion, E, F, G and
-L, ten men constituting a team; this match we won handily.</p>
-
-<p>Matches between the squads proved exciting and interesting, the prize
-being a silver loving cup donated by Lieutenant Brunner. Our range
-being on the meadows not only insured safety, but was actually one of
-the best ranges used by any Company in the State. Our discipline was
-excellent and our annual inspection invariably showed 100 per cent.
-The armory was built during the winter of 1896-7, and was formally
-opened in March, 1897, with a grand fair which was honored by a visit
-of Governor Griggs and a large number of military and civic officers.
-It cost about $20,000, and contains, besides a large drill-room, a well
-appointed stage, meeting rooms and living apartments.</p>
-
-<p>During the winter of 1897-8 particular attention was given to
-Regimental, Battalion and Company drills in extended order and when
-spring opened and the mutterings of war were heard, the Company had
-been drilled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> quite thoroughly in battle exercises, and an enthusiasm
-had been instilled, so that every man was on his mettle. It was
-natural, then, that when the orders came the Company was enabled to
-turn out a larger percentage of National Guardsmen than any other
-Company in the regiment. The personnel of the entire body insured an
-honorable mention in the State annals. Our officers were capable and
-well liked; and the non-commissioned officers, that body of men in our
-armies which are the fighting unit, were a potent factor in our make
-up. How well these officers and subs did their duty the records of
-details, escorts, provost guards, etc., will show.</p>
-
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus02.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p>April 30, 1898, the orders we had been expecting arrived and from
-this time on a nervous excitement prevailed in the armory and spread
-for miles around. Final visits were made; business affairs wound up;
-underclothing bought, and when Sunday evening arrived it found us all
-ready to start. During the night the telegraph ticked off the rumors
-of the battle in Manila harbor, and at dawn all the country was aflame
-with patriotism<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> and eager to know the facts. Every hour brought fresh
-tidings of that grand victory and it was with lighter hearts and more
-cheerful faces that we set about our final task.</p>
-
-<p>Everywhere now was bustle and excitement, but it was freely predicted
-that we would not get further than Sea Girt, and we heard this repeated
-so often that we began to be rather anxious to be off, as if afraid the
-war would end before we had fairly got in it. The time to don our war
-togs came at last; mothers, sisters and sweethearts were given final
-injunctions not to worry, just as if we expected they would obey, and
-then we repaired to the armory, where the excitement was at fever heat
-and the crowd of sightseers outside pushed and swayed, the boys were
-impatient to be off. The clear notes of the bugle sound the assembly.
-The command to fall in is given. The drill-room is hushed, but the
-excitement is still there. Impatient commands are given and finally the
-sharp command, "March!" starts us on our journey and the beginning of
-our little world of warfare.</p>
-
-<p>But bedlam had broken loose. Steadily we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> marched out of the doorway,
-only to face a great crowd. Our feelings were various at this time, I
-doubt not. Personally I wanted to get away from that crowd and felt
-angry that they should be cheering so, not daring to look aside, but
-deaf to all the shouts of encouragement. I was fully realizing the
-fact that it was not such a fine thing to leave home and friends for
-a perilous two years of strife and bloodshed. Finally reaching the
-station by a circuitous route, we waited fully an hour for the train.
-This was extremely trying to us, but amid an outburst of cheers we
-boarded it bound for camp, and now our spirits rose, for we were off,
-and instead of looking behind it was forward, and we determined then
-and there to make the best of everything as we found it, and that duty
-in its plainest, boldest light lay before us, and now was the time
-to begin. Our officers and non-coms were hurrying through the cars,
-making up lists, detailing guards, making assignments. Every engine we
-passed saluted us with deafening screeches; factory, street and doorway
-contributed their share of waving handkerchiefs and cheering<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> crowds,
-the streets of Newark near the station were packed with people, and so
-the patriotism followed us all the way to Sea Girt, which was reached
-at four in the evening.</p>
-
-<p>Immediately disembarking, we formed rapidly and marched to the camp
-grounds, passing in review before the Governor. This was my first view
-of the War Man of our State. Standing upon a horse block in front of
-the White House with uncovered head and a sober, serious countenance,
-Governor Voorhees impressed me with the belief that he, at least, felt
-the full responsibility of his position. Well and nobly did he fill
-it. From Trenton he brought his headquarters to Sea Girt and there he
-stayed until he saw the last regiment depart for the south, having
-ceaselessly urged forward equipments, personally looked after the
-comfort of the men, taken a deep and thoughtful interest in all our
-surroundings, and finally bid us Godspeed upon our journey, a loyal,
-devout patriot.</p>
-
-<p>As we marched to our streets ominous mutterings and black storm clouds
-in the west warned us to get sheltered as quickly as pos<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>sible; and at
-the word, ranks were broken and a wild scramble for tents began; but we
-were soon roused out again to get sacks of straw to sleep upon. This
-news was comforting, for the fresh green sod, still moist from recent
-rains, was anything but inviting. The sacks were intended for two
-battalions. Our battalion was to have had cots. There was considerable
-confusion and orders got mixed, so we sailed in with the other fellows
-to get sacks. These were stored at the rear of the mess houses about
-200 yards back of the camp. Eight hundred men got the order at the same
-time and all made a dash for the pile. The sacks were about seven feet
-long and it was a most ludicrous spectacle to see the men dragging
-these clumsy things after them. The field seemed alive with great brown
-ants crawling after each man. The boys enjoyed the fun greatly. Guards
-were being posted and we soon made ready for the night. While the
-blankets were being issued it commenced to rain; and after eating the
-last crust of bread we had brought from home, we turned in and slept
-soundly.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Tuesday we received cots, while those tents which could boast of floors
-were given the sacks.</p>
-
-<p>The rations or "grub" served the first day consisted of a small piece
-of steak and a whole loaf of bread. The bread broken in half with the
-meat between would make a home made sandwich that could be eaten on
-the installment plan. The loaf was our allowance of bread for the day.
-Coffee of rather doubtful quality was served, also one whole boiled
-potato, and some of them appeared to have grown for a couple of years.
-This breakfast was duplicated every day during the week. At dinner the
-meat ration was varied by bacon, liver or fish.</p>
-
-<p>Mustering officers and surgeons were very busy all the time, and
-companies of the First and Third were constantly passing our tents,
-to and from the mustering field. Orders were received to hurry up the
-mustering of the Second Regiment. Rumor had it that we were to go to
-Washington in a few days, the Third to stay and the First to go to
-Chickamauga Park to act with the Regulars in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> contemplated invasion
-of Cuba. During the week the showers and wet fields kept us continually
-indoors and the first Sunday in camp it rained a flood. The streets
-were turned into quagmires and every now and then the slip-slop of some
-soldier passing the tent made the situation all the more gloomy.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus03.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Detailed news of Commodore Dewey's victory in Manila harbor reached
-us Sunday morning. The completeness of it, with such slight injury to
-ourselves, was pronounced as marvelous and cheering broke through the
-sodden air, stirring the dripping camp to life and action.</p>
-
-<p>This day was my initiation as Corporal in Guard Mounting and, although
-the Junior Corporal present, I was detailed to take out the first
-relief. It rained incessantly and at nine in the evening the guard was
-dismissed. My face then was quite numb from exposure. At three o'clock
-the next morning the guard resumed its duty.</p>
-
-<p>The second week turned out to be a pretty stiff one for drills, the
-weather being less wet. Friday, May 13th, we were examined by Sur<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>geon
-Brien of our Regiment and all but four passed. One man failed to
-report; he had left camp for home. In the evening G Company started out
-with fife and drum to have a good time. They carried nearly the whole
-Battalion with them to the quarters of the commanding officers, who
-were repeatedly called out and made short speeches amid much cheering,
-after which the boys paraded through the camp. They were received with
-considerable enthusiasm in every street. The escapade proved welcome,
-for it diverted our thoughts from the weather.</p>
-
-<p>I had been temporarily assigned to the Quartermaster's Department
-shortly after our arrival at camp and was kept quite busy all the
-time making up schedules of equipments for each Regiment, and these
-were completed only within a few days of our departure south. Col.
-George G. Felton, Deputy Quartermaster-General, was in charge and
-was a most efficient officer. His department was a hive of industry,
-unloading cars, filling quotas, making out lists and distributing to
-the regiments, and when everything had been supplied<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> he viewed with
-satisfaction as well an equipped force as ever entered the volunteer
-service of the United States.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos02.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="caption"> SEA GIRT, N.J., MAY, 1898.</p>
-
-<p>While serving here I missed a number of marches the Company
-participated in, the most notable being the march along the beach and
-through the thick woods and swamps, ending with a vigorous charge over
-the sand hills bordering the ocean.</p>
-
-<p>The manual of arms used by the National Guard was abruptly changed
-to conform to the army manual and this change was brought about in
-an incredibly short time under the able instruction of our First
-Lieutenant, and the movements were executed with marked precision.
-Considerable attention was given to setting up exercises as practiced
-by the United States Army, so that we became quite proficient in the
-simpler movements. Though not having enough clear days to go more
-deeply into the more difficult exercises, the Regiment in companies
-would be at times seen on the field and it proved quite an interesting
-sight.</p>
-
-<p>The interesting ceremony of transforming<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> us into soldiers of the
-United States Army occurred on Saturday afternoon, May 14th, before
-a large crowd of excursionists. Captain Ely being absent, Lieutenant
-Blake formed the Company a little after noon and marched us to the
-front of the mustering tent. Upon the arrival of the Captain the
-ceremony proceeded.</p>
-
-<p>As our names were called we formed in double time to the right of the
-officer, the Sergeants and Corporals making the alignment. This was
-to prove our actual presence. The names were again called. This time
-the officers formed the first line, the non-commissioned officers the
-second, and the balance, the third line, in company formation. An
-opportunity to withdraw was then given, the penalties for disobedience,
-desertion and other crimes enumerated in the articles of war were
-explained. He then ordered us to take off our caps, raise our right
-hands and swear to uphold the Government, fight <i>all</i> its enemies and
-be true soldiers of the United States, "so help me God." The Regiment
-was mustered the next day.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The First Regiment received its marching orders May 16th and on the
-19th we were formed to escort this finely equipped Regiment to the
-station. They were bound for Camp Alger, near Washington, D.C. It was
-believed at the time that this Regiment was to go to Cuba with the
-first invading army and it was with intense interest that we watched
-these stalwart men, most of them of Irish fighting stock, loaded down
-with their equipments march silently past. We gave them a cheer and
-a Godspeed as their train drew out. The episode sent us back to camp
-thinking hard over the uncertainties of life and what was to be the
-outcome of the war.</p>
-
-<p>Up to this time the wet weather had made Sunday services impossible,
-but Sunday, May 21st, was a grand day and after inspection of quarters
-the men of the Second and Third Regiments assembled on the lawn at
-the White House, while flags gayly fluttered, visitors arriving in
-their best attire, carriages and bicycles on the outskirts, with
-the ever-present green sward as a background stretching down to the
-sea, made a memorable pic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>ture and as the Governor stepped from the
-threshold of his cottage he could not but admire the pretty scene.</p>
-
-<p>He motioned that his chair should be placed in the midst of "his boys"
-instead of a more favorable position but apart from them. He took a
-lively interest in the service and sang "Onward Christian Soldiers"
-with as much vim as anybody. Chaplain Glazbrook of the Third early
-interested his hearers by citing during his discourse an ancient fable
-of an invincible, conquering warrior and his ultimate end.</p>
-
-<p>As far as appearances went, the last week in camp turned us all into
-sure enough soldiers, having been fully equipped for field service.
-The distributing of underwear and clothing was unique in its way. Our
-Quartermaster took my measure: For blouse, 36-inch; for trousers,
-32-inch x 30-inch. This is what was issued to me: Blouse, 38-inch;
-trousers, 34-inch x 31-inch; blue shirt, 15&frac12;-inch; shoes, nothing
-smaller than 8 or 9. After much protesting I finally consented to take
-the above to be exchanged later. That<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> later never came. Our Uncle
-Sammy evidently believed in giving all his soldier boys plenty of room
-for development.</p>
-
-<p>Each Company now had a cooking arrangement, known as a "Buzzacott,"
-invented by a private of that name in the Regular Army. It consisted of
-a number of flat bars of iron welded together and resting on legs one
-foot from the ground and so joined together as to fold up or take apart
-as necessity demanded, the whole arrangement making a gridiron about
-two feet wide by four feet long when in use; one field desk and cooking
-utensils, while each man was provided with one suit of underwear,
-socks, blue shirt, trousers and blouse of state uniform, campaign
-hat, web cartridge belt, Springfield rifle, leggings, kit&mdash;viz, one
-each combination frying pan and plate, knife, fork, tablespoon and
-cup&mdash;haversack, knapsack, poncho, blanket and canteen. This outfit
-would become complete when we received fifty rounds of ammunition and
-it was just about as much as we could stagger under.</p>
-
-<p>Manasquan had always been an enticing place even during our short stay
-at camp for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> rifle practice in former years and it became doubly so now
-as the boys formed acquaintances there, and notwithstanding the orders,
-guard running was becoming quite an art and up to this time had been
-very successful, so when an order was read at dress parade prescribing
-penalties relating to this subject there were many long faces in the
-ranks. These penalties were graded according to the seriousness of the
-offense: guard house one to six days, ditto on bread and water; again
-for absence without leave, "Carrying a forty pound pack six hours a day
-for four days." The guilty ones were often seen fore and aft of a wagon
-bringing sand from the beach for the low places in "Shoulder Strap row"
-and doing other "chores."</p>
-
-<p>The sentries were given strict orders to prevent this running out at
-night and the bayonet was sometimes used with disagreeable effect. The
-bands of discipline were tightened and the Regiment took a great brace.
-The parades were superb and brought crowds from all the nearby towns,
-and now that the sun shone the parade ground was a beautiful sight,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>
-stretching down to the sea with its hundreds of tents laid out in
-strict accordance to regulations.</p>
-
-<p>Tent pitching and striking was practiced at every favorable opportunity
-and was under the charge of a line officer, each Company detail under
-the immediate supervision of its Artificer, assisted by the Sergeants
-and Corporals.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus04.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Thursday, May 25th, we formed for escort of the Third Regiment. We
-had a different feeling this time, more of sympathy than otherwise,
-for they were to do garrison duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook
-fortifications and at Pompton Plains to guard the powder mills there.
-It rained hard at midnight just as each section was disembarking at its
-destination. The Fort Hancock detail had a particularly sorry time of
-it after leaving the cars.</p>
-
-<p>Monday, May 30th, was observed as a holiday and enough men were gotten
-together to form a battalion for the purpose of assisting the G.A.R.
-at their services in Manasquan. This battalion was composed entirely
-of the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War and was a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> striking example
-of how fighting blood runs down through generations. That evening we
-had parade and review before the Governor. A telegram from the War
-Department was read in orders directing the Regiment to proceed at once
-to Chickamauga Park.</p>
-
-<p>This order was the prevailing topic of conversation for the rest
-of the evening. During the night long trains of cars arrived, but
-notwithstanding the nearness of our departure for the actual seat
-of war, and Chickamauga was recognized as only a stepping stone to
-Tampa, where the invading army was gathering, we slept soundly and
-peacefully. Such was the effect of the fresh salt breezes from the
-ocean and the outdoor life that in one short month our nervous systems
-had been completely renovated, and exciting events could not make any
-inroads upon our time for repose, but we always rose fresh and bright
-at daylight, ready for the day's drills and exercises. Tuesday broke
-bright and clear and found most of our "traps" packed and awaiting
-final orders. I hastily arranged to take a night at home. All furloughs
-had been<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> stopped, but mine was "managed" with a few others, thanks
-to our commanding officer. After visiting everybody we could in the
-short time allotted to us we started for camp again Wednesday morning.
-Arriving there at noon, we found all the tents down, baggage being
-packed and the men sitting on their knapsacks eating hard tack. A few
-lucky ones were eating sandwiches.</p>
-
-<p>There was work ahead for me, however, and I was soon assisting on the
-Company rolls, which were being made up for (as we thought) State pay.
-While this was going on the Company was marched out and photographed.
-It was a good picture, but unfortunately the Captain and a number of
-men were left out, owing to absence on details. The sun shone from
-an unclouded sky and with direct fierceness as if to atone for its
-shyness for the past four weeks. Everything now being ready, tents and
-baggage loaded, we marched out in heavy marching order and were again
-photographed. Orders now arrived rapidly and we were soon forming for a
-final review before the Governor.</p>
-
-<p>Crowds had come down to see us off, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> many were the tearful
-farewells and handshakes. But what a load our equipments made. We had
-discarded all the comforts and a great many things we believed we
-could do without, but still there was an immense dead weight in those
-knapsacks and the tinkling cups dangling from our haversacks added
-to this discomfort. The repeated warnings and commands of "close up,
-close up," caused the men, heavily loaded as they were, to jostle each
-other while the veins in their foreheads stood out like whip cords.
-The tremendous physical strain, together with the heat, made this a
-never-to-be forgotten march, and was only equalled by the celebrated
-"dust march" at the end of our journey. With very little delay we
-boarded our section and with many a frantic farewell we started on our
-long and eventful journey to the land of palms and soft breezes.</p>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2"><a name="PART_SECOND" id="PART_SECOND">PART SECOND</a></p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">THE JOURNEY SOUTH</p>
-
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus05.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p class="drop">A<span class="uppercase">t</span> three thirty in the afternoon, June 2d, 1898, we pulled out of the
-station at Sea Girt and immediately proceeded to make ourselves as
-comfortable as possible. Each man had a seat to himself, these being
-of the low backed variety. Our equipments we hung on the package
-racks, and they jangled and banged with every movement of the car. We
-had hardly gotten settled in our seats when we became aware that the
-population all along our route had turned out to see us, and every
-little cross road had its group of farm wagons and country people, who
-had been there for hours, and cheered us as we passed. Our journey
-became a continual ovation, which reached its height as we swung past
-Monmouth Junction. At this place occurred the most touching sight it
-was my fortune to witness during our eventful journey. As we drew
-near the station a series<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> of whistles brought every head in the car
-to the window. Every doorstep, garden and fence had its waving flag.
-The school children had been dismissed and had marched in a body to
-the long freight platform at the depot. Along the whole front of this
-line of children was stretched the national colors, while from their
-hands waved the Emblem of Guardianship to our homes and little ones,
-and tiny voices were singing patriotic songs. Up to this time I had
-been skeptical of the patriotism of our people, believing that the
-enthusiasm heretofore witnessed was merely a personal feeling, but
-here were people utter strangers to us, bringing their children. And
-why? Evidently to instill in their young minds that love of country
-which they themselves had and for which many of them had suffered a
-generation ago. All this burst upon me with indescribable rapidity and
-I know that I was not the only one in that car who had something in
-his throat which he did not like to speak of. Shortly after we struck
-the main line of the P. &amp; R.R.R. We reached Trenton at five o'clock
-and crossed the Delaware. We<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> were now going through a section much
-travelled over by the opposing forces in the Revolutionary War, and
-now occurred an altogether surprising and somewhat touching incident.
-My tent-mate and I being seated opposite each other were admiring the
-scenery; we had lost our bearings somewhat and had only a faint idea
-as to where we were, when the train suddenly emerged from the hills
-and presented before us a most beautiful landscape. He immediately
-recognized it as the fertile and rich Chester Valley. He had lived in
-this valley until he was nineteen years of age and became quite excited
-as he found we would pass the threshold of his home, where he had left
-his mother, brothers and sisters the week before. He knew all the
-points of interest. On the ridge yonder was Washington's headquarters
-where his shoeless army shivered and shook in their tattered garments
-at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-8. The remarkably clear
-atmosphere enabled the General with his glasses to sweep the valley
-for twenty miles. How many anxious glances he must have given in the
-direction of Phila<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>delphia. A short distance farther on we crossed
-the Brandywine, that memorable stream on which the disastrous battle
-was fought and Philadelphia was laid open to the enemy. There was
-the stone dwelling in which the British General Gage, of Bunker Hill
-fame, was when the information was brought him of the band of Patriots
-sleeping peacefully around some hay ricks at Paoli, which resulted in
-their surprise and massacre. Then we approached his home and he looked
-eagerly to see if any one was around the house, but there was no one.
-The carpenter shop in which he had learned his trade was pointed out.
-We passed Phoenixville and my enthusiastic friend kept naming over the
-villages, and often the names of householders within several miles of
-his old home. Lime of the best quality is found in the soil of this
-valley and accounts for the fertility of it. The sun now began to
-sink in a blaze of gold and about eight in the evening we drew into
-Harrisburg.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus06.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Harrisburg is noted far and wide for its steel and iron industries,
-and it was a most<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> interesting sight to see the tall chimneys along
-the approach to the city vomiting forth columns of flame high in the
-air, lighting the whole neighborhood, while inside the foundries great
-masses of red hot metal glowed and sparkled while going through the
-molding process. But we never dreamed there were so many pretty girls
-there, in fact we were literally besieged as soon as our section
-arrived in the car sheds. Our officers were very positive in their
-order that no one should leave the cars, so we had to look cheerful
-while a fellow from some other Company walked off with the girl who
-had turned up such a bewitching, beseeching face for "just a little
-button." The boys from eleven companies of the Regiment had a mighty
-good time while we were waiting here, but some of the girls didn't
-mind being pulled up to a window and paying a forfeit as long as they
-got the button, and when the trains finally drew out again the boys of
-Company L had quite pleasant dreams of the Harrisburg girls. We had
-been waiting here for about two hours when our Junior Lieutenant came
-into the car and with a cheer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>fully serious face announced: "Well boys
-we are in for it now; we are bound for Jacksonville, Florida." I think
-an electric current must have passed through the car at that instant,
-everybody jumped out of their seats so quickly. Jacksonville and Tampa
-were about the same in our minds. It seems that Chickamauga Park was
-filling too rapidly with troops and transportation was getting clogged;
-hence the switching us off to the south. It was estimated that we had
-gone about three hundred miles out of our way. About eleven o'clock
-we drew out of Harrisburg, taps were sounded through the trains and
-all lights were extinguished. We found that the only way of taking
-a comfortable sleep was as follows: The back of one seat was swung
-upright and held in position by our rifles placed under one end; we
-then took out each seat and placed them crosswise; the lower ends would
-be under the upright backs. This gave us room to stretch ourselves at
-full length, and by putting our blankets under our heads for a pillow
-we managed to sleep fairly well. We arrived in Washington during the
-early hours<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> of the morning and were awakened by the train starting
-out again at daylight. We caught a glimpse of the monument and the dome
-of the Capitol as we were rushed across the Potomac. In Alexandria,
-the town made famous in 1861 by the tragic death of Colonel Ellsworth,
-the white people were still sleeping and only stray negroes were out
-to see us pass. We skirted the Potomac for some miles, when we turned
-westward and southward. At Widewater we stopped for water and I plucked
-two daisies from Virginia soil and sent them home in a letter. This
-section of country which we traversed was as desolate and uncultivated
-a region as I ever want to see. It was totally unexpected and wholly
-disappointing. Vast fields in Virginia appeared as if the growing of
-grass was a hardship. Here and there a negro's log cabin, with its ten
-by ten garden of dwarf corn, with perhaps a bed of peanuts or sweet
-potatoes, reminded us that we had not left civilization entirely.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos03.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="caption"> "NEGRO LOG CABIN, WITH ITS TEN BY TEN GARDEN PATCH OF
-CORN AND PEANUTS."</p>
-
-<p>As we rode swiftly towards the South a great disappointment was felt
-that we were not to go through the cities of Virginia&mdash;Fred<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>ericksburg,
-Petersburg and Richmond, historical places that we were peculiarly
-anxious to see. These were skirted or passed some distance away, but
-we caught a glimpse of the spires of Richmond and it set us all agog.
-
-
-We passed into North Carolina and soon entered Weldon, the scene of
-several cavalry engagements. After leaving this city we passed through
-miles of desolate country, over which once waved the tall and stately
-pines, but now only the blackened stumps greeted us. Occasionally a
-small forest was passed, which looked amid the general destruction as
-if it had been forgotten by the axeman.</p>
-
-<p>These small forests, which had been used only for tapping for
-turpentine and resin, contained trees sixty or seventy feet high,
-straight as an arrow, with the lowest branches twenty feet from the
-ground. These trees were about the only interesting features of this
-whole region of piney atmosphere. Occasionally we caught a glimpse of
-some far away range of mountains, but the view was quickly lost. At
-Henderson we stopped for water and our ice coolers were refilled. The
-water was gotten<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> to the coolers through the top of the car by means of
-hose from a hydrant at the station. This refilling was done hurriedly
-and they were not very particular as to the direction in which the hose
-pointed, hence quite a few sorry looking soldiers.</p>
-
-<p>As we were slowly crossing over one of the many muddy streams of North
-Carolina a workman called out to us: "Be you un's come all the way from
-New Jersey?" "Yes." "And be you un's all goin' to Cuba?" "Yes." "Well
-you un's had better all go right back, for its hotter 'n hell-fire down
-there." A peculiar thing I noticed was the absence of all enthusiasm
-among the groups of people we occasionally met in the wilderness
-through which we passed. Most of these were negroes, but in nearly
-every group of black-faced humanity could be seen the fair face of the
-white girl, "Missus's little lamb," who took the household with her to
-see the Yankee soldiers, whose fathers years before had tramped through
-that very region, leaving burning forests and even cities in their
-wake. We entered Raleigh and passed the encampment<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> where the State
-militia had mobilized. Soon after leaving Hamlet darkness descended,
-taps were sounded and we prepared for our second night's repose.</p>
-
-<p>We woke next morning as the train was crossing the Savannah river
-and immediately afterward entered Augusta, Ga., just as the cocks
-were crowing, having passed through South Carolina during the night.
-Here we enjoyed the luxury of a good wash and we needed it badly. The
-only water obtainable on the cars was in the water coolers and they
-had been empty a long while. Augusta gave us quite a welcome. It had
-been steadily getting warmer and warmer, until now as we pulled out
-of Augusta at about 8 a.m. the thermometer in the car marked 87&#176;; at
-noon it was 95&#176;, where it remained until far into the afternoon. Upon
-leaving Augusta we noticed for the first time the unmistakable signs
-of the tropics, great ferns, seven and eight feet high, which had rank
-growth in the swamps lining our route. Here and there scrub palmettos
-reared their graceful branches like giant hands bestowing a blessing
-upon the smaller growth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> beneath, and farther south loomed the shaggy
-headed cabbage palmetto, the sight of which recalled the brave fight
-at Fort Moultrie off Charleston in 1776, which fort was built almost
-entirely of palmetto logs, the principal advantage being the fact that
-they did not splinter when struck. We passed vast swampy areas of
-tangled scrub, out of which we could almost expect to see alligators
-show their bony snouts.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus07.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>We stopped at Millen near noon to take our coffee. This town was burned
-when Sherman's troops marched through on their way to Augusta. It was a
-sleepy sort of a town. No one seemed to have any business to attend to.
-The stores were one story affairs, and upon entering we would select
-whatever we wanted and drop the nickel in the hand of the proprietor,
-who was seated at the door. The only busy place was the post-office,
-which did a thriving business during the hour we halted there. About 2
-p.m. we drew into the car sheds at Savannah only long enough to have
-the cars inspected. Here the boys were again besieged for buttons and
-souvenirs.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>All through Georgia were large numbers of hogs, "razor backs," the boys
-called them, probably of the same variety as Sherman's "bummers" had
-such fun over. They were very lean, had long legs and long snout, with
-a decidedly "bad" eye. At one of the stops for water a family was spied
-peacefully rooting among the pines, but the furious charge made upon
-them by the fun-loving boys soon scattered all but the sow; she defied
-them, and they let her alone, but the little fellows could run like
-rabbits. Three or four of our boys would corner a little black porker
-and suddenly drop on him, but somehow he was never under the pile when
-it landed. One, however, was caught and brought squealing into the
-cars, but was afterward dropped some distance farther on.</p>
-
-<p>We now sped due south, reaching Waycross late in the afternoon. Beyond
-its being a railroad center it was uninteresting. The forests now
-presented a truly tropical appearance with festoons of moss hanging
-from the branches of the palmettos; with ferns here and there. Against
-the dense green of the leaves<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> stood in lovely contrast perfect showers
-of beautiful pink blossoms which covered large trees. We were now
-nearing Florida, the land of flowers, luscious fruit, ancient buildings
-and brilliant fountains of perpetual youth, but now the mecca of
-thousands of Uncle Sam's soldiers. It was growing dark as we crossed
-the line into the most southern State. We arrived at Jacksonville
-station about 10 o'clock. Taps were sounded, lights put out and we
-slept soundly.</p>
-
-
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><br /><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART THIRD</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">CAMP CUBA LIBRE</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus08.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p class="drop">T<span class="uppercase">he</span> next morning we were caught napping sure enough&mdash;for during the
-night the train had taken us out to the camp&mdash;bugles were calling to
-each other, seemingly right under our "bed-room" windows, and away off
-in the distance, the echoes were replying "Can't get 'em up; can't
-get 'em up." Then our own buglers had their say, flinging back the
-imputation that we were the only ones not up. Then the regimental band
-took up the strain. It was a beautiful morning. The sun was just rising
-and throwing slanting rays into the trees. All around us were the tents
-of soldiers. Sentries with ominous looking cartridges in their belts
-were wearily pacing their beats, but ever alert to the slightest move,
-for we were now comparatively near to the seat of war. The band ceased
-and sharp commands followed. In an incredibly short space of time the
-companies nearest us<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> were formed, every coat buttoned, every legging
-laced, and the sergeant rapidly calling the roll. We had confidently
-believed that we could give points in military efficiency to any
-regiment we might come in contact with, but we inwardly confessed right
-there and then that this regiment on our left could give us points on
-getting out for roll call, and not during all our stay in the army did
-we ever succeed in getting anywhere near the example set for us that
-morning.</p>
-
-<p>While waiting for the order to proceed to camp we were regaled with
-marvelous tales of alligators, rattlesnakes, spiders and poisonous
-creeping and flying things of all kinds. We participated in the killing
-of a snake under the cars and had a great chase after an immense
-spider, which "wasn't near" as "big" as "some," they said, so we
-imagined they must have resembled crabs. They had an alligator about
-four feet long, which they had caught not 100 feet away in a stream.</p>
-
-<p>About noon we disembarked and with our invincible drum corps leading,
-we marched through camp to the site selected for us. This<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> march will
-never be forgotten, and it was dubbed "the dust march." Fortunately for
-us it was only for about half a mile, but we inhaled more dust then
-than we will for the rest of our lives. Indeed, our company got the
-full benefit of it, for we were the left or rear company. Wisconsin
-and Illinois cheered us. Virginia and North Carolina yelled at us, and
-altogether we got a pretty good welcome. Wisconsin took the trouble to
-visit us the next day to tell us how glad they were to see us come into
-camp, and we took to these hearty Milwaukee lads like a duck to water.
-Sunday morning broke bright and clear and we were immediately in the
-throes of "house" moving. All the lines of street had to be adjusted,
-and it was late in the afternoon before we were finally settled and
-could begin "house keeping" in good earnest. All our food so far had
-been "travel rations," and the nice things we had brought began to
-spoil. It was two days before the commissary could get our rations to
-camp, their arrival relieved us greatly.</p>
-
-<p>We were now camped on the left of the regi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>ment, or northeast, getting
-the full benefit of the breeze which at noon was sure to come and stay
-until after dark. The evenings were fine. Such in the north in the hot
-months are rare. The thermometer in the daytime registered 85&#176; to 95&#176;,
-while in the evening it marks only 60&#176;; no mosquitoes. The flaps of
-tents were generally left open, but ours we closed because near morning
-a heavy dew falls and saturates everything exposed and we did not think
-it wise to leave them open.</p>
-
-<p>The odor of pines was in the air constantly, and when we went into the
-fields for drill a weed, when trampled on, emitted a perfume not unlike
-locust blossoms. The fields also were full of the scrub palmettos about
-two or three feet high. They were similar to the palm branches so
-familiar on Palm Sunday. Another peculiar character in plant life here
-was the moss which hangs in shroud-like gracefulness from all kinds
-of trees. This moss looks very like curly sea-weed when dry and hangs
-in festoons several feet long from the limbs and branches. This moss
-some of the Wisconsin boys spread in their tents to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> sleep upon and it
-evidently made comfortable beds.</p>
-
-<p>Sunday I strolled into Jacksonville and watched the soldiers crabbing
-from the piers. These crabs they told me were not fit to eat on account
-of so much decayed vegetable matter in the St. Johns river, upon which
-they feed. A striking feature of the river is the denseness with which
-in places it is covered with hyacinths, which at times clog the wheels
-of ferry-boats so as to stop navigation. These plants were introduced
-here some time back for the purpose of beautifying the banks, having
-handsome spikes of bloom. They grow very large. The leaf is much larger
-than a pond-lily, and is frequently the home of a poisonous spider.
-Tradition tells us that these spiders are to eventually destroy the
-plants. I visited St. Johns Episcopal church and was received by the
-Secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary, who kindly showed me around. On a
-subsequent visit I met the Rector and enjoyed a chat with him on the
-porch of the rectory. He told me that fourteen young men of his church
-had left for the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> war. Some of them were from the choir, and I was
-invited to take part with the choir in the services during our stay.</p>
-
-<p>Our company had been designated as the Provost Guard, Second Division,
-Seventh Army Corps, with Captain Ely as Provost Marshal. What honor
-there was in it came from the fact that we were the body guard of
-General Lee, and received orders from him only. We became a distinct
-body, with the Provost Marshal's headquarters in Jacksonville, near the
-General's headquarters. No State pay had come yet and everybody was
-"dead broke." The extra blue shirts the boys bought on going to Sea
-Girt they were now selling to the Illinois boys to obtain a few cents
-to spend.</p>
-
-<p>A canteen had been established which dispensed liquors and soft drinks
-only. The men might go to the first sergeant and procure trading orders
-on the canteen to the amount of two dollars. This amount was often
-cut down to one dollar or less by the Captain, who used his judgment
-in the matter. The men would laugh<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> with childish glee upon obtaining
-these orders and invite their friends to "come and have something,"
-wondering how they had survived so long without it. The amount was soon
-used up. The Y.M.C.A. had established a large tent just back of our
-company and provided for the use of the regiment a stock of magazines
-and periodicals. Also ice-water which was kept in barrels sunk in the
-ground. Strange to say, the hospitality of the association was often
-abused, but as a rule the boys generally appreciated their kindness.
-This tent was supposed to follow the regiment to Cuba or wherever it
-went. The soil being of a light sandy loam and mixed profusely with
-soot from fires in the pine woods, rose easily with the breeze, which
-sprang up about noon every day and gave us a liberal sprinkling of this
-dusty compound. To keep the interior of our tent clean, we procured the
-tufts of needles which grow thickly on the top of young pines like a
-plume as they permitted the dust to sift through them, and when dried
-made a couch which was soft and springy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> It took about one to one and
-a half hours to collect enough needles for one man, and for that reason
-the idea was not generally adopted. "Too much trouble."</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus09.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>The guard duty our company performed was such that we became more or
-less a target at which uncomplimentary remarks were hurled by men of
-other regiments, and it was only because it was in the line of duty
-that it was done so cheerfully. During the week the regiment was paid
-by the Government for the month of May, and the city of Jacksonville
-was painted a Jersey color from end to end. The other regiments were
-paid also, but they were not in it with Jersey. Lieutenant Brunner
-reported that he had sent home for the boys amounts aggregating
-three hundred dollars. Considerable industry finally erected a "real
-bath-house," which contained two sprays and lots of pans for washing
-purposes. It is needless to say that this house was the most popular
-in camp. The camp was laid out in squares, and the dividing streets of
-regiments were provided with stand pipes and troughs, both of which
-were used from daylight until<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> midnight. It was especially refreshing
-to take a dip after marching until midnight and then creeping between
-the blankets, sleep soundly until morning. This water was supplied by
-the Jacksonville Water Co., which had four Artesian wells sunk back in
-the country and piped to the pumping station in Jacksonville, whence
-it was distributed around. One of these wells was nearly one thousand
-feet deep. The water never ceased to flow, and was always bright and
-sparkling, although rather warm, with a decided taste of sulphur,
-which from some wells was positively disagreeable. This water was also
-used for fire purposes and, besides its use by the city, supplied ten
-thousand soldiers and several corrals of horses and mules for washing
-and bathing purposes. The pumping station was guarded night and day,
-for suspicious persons had been seen near it. It would have been
-dangerous to go too near it after dark. Everything we ate and drank was
-carefully guarded.</p>
-
-<p>All the boys were enjoying their stay there immensely. We were getting
-better food from the Government than we got at Sea Girt,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> nor must I
-forget to mention that the people of Jacksonville always welcomed us,
-and lots of things found their way into our tents. To the Jacksonville
-people there was nothing just like the Jerseymen. We were treated with
-great kindness. One lady, who said she used to live in New Jersey, sent
-us a large can filled with stew, which we accepted with thanks, and it
-was excellent, but that very noon we had stew at camp and we were dosed
-with stews morning, noon and night. We decided to decline the next
-donation.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>We had been away from home just one month and a half and in that
-time&mdash;although not seeing any actual field service&mdash;we believed we had
-become pretty thoroughly seasoned in camp life. One month of steady
-downpour and half a month of blazing tropical sun was enough to do the
-trick. We were housed in as comfortable quarters as possible under
-the circumstances. The climate here made us so sleepy and lazy that
-at all hours, between eight in the morning and five in the afternoon,
-the tents contained sleeping men, and they slept so soundly that
-often they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> would wake to find some joker had been smearing their
-faces with soot and grease. Nights in Jacksonville, however, brought
-that musical pest we all knew so well, the mosquito. He abounds along
-the St. Johns river, and seemed to enjoy good health and strength,
-judging from the looks of our boys, who were trying to sleep in provost
-headquarters while off guard during the night.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos04.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="caption"> CAMP OF THE SECOND NEW JERSEY REGIMENT JACKSONVILLE,
-FLA., 1898.</p>
-
-<p>We were doing all night work now, relieved by Companies K, Forty-ninth
-Iowa, and I, First Wisconsin. This was found necessary after pay-day.
-This same day brought a rise in the price of souvenirs, live alligators
-and everything the soldier would be likely to buy to send home. What
-money the soldier received, if not sent home immediately, was generally
-left in saloons, and the storekeepers were merely making a bid for it,
-for it must go somewhere and right away too.</p>
-
-
-
-<p>We had two squads doing duty in the camps of the division to see that
-regulations were lived up to. Our instructions were, "keep your eyes
-open, mouth closed." "Watch strangers in camp (no civilians were
-allowed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> unless with official escort), watch the policing of streets
-and the care of kitchens and sinks." "Don't criticise, but report
-observations on return," and the final injunction from Lieutenant
-Brunner, "Don't be fresh." The guard had no friends, for we arrested
-everybody found on the streets after taps. We had no drills, and up to
-this time enjoyed excellent health, no one from the company being sick.
-We took daily walks around the country and into Jacksonville while off
-duty. Our regiment paraded through Jacksonville on a Saturday afternoon
-and drew much favorable comment. We were reviewed by Generals Lee and
-Burt, the latter being our brigade commander. After we had passed
-the reviewing stand General Lee mounted his magnificent gray horse
-"Cuba," and rode at the head of the regiment back to camp. The people
-of Jacksonville said that the New Jersey regiment was the finest seen
-there, and Lee made the remark that he wished only one regiment like
-the Second New Jersey to show the Spaniards what an organized body of
-troops should be. His marching<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> at our head was a mark of esteem in
-which he held us. This week we received our pay from the government
-to June 15th, and the boys were correspondingly happy. We were now
-kept so constantly on the jump that we hardly had the time to write
-to anybody. The box sent by the good people of Rutherford arrived on
-Sunday, but for lack of transportation it did not get into camp until
-Wednesday. All the perishable stuff, like cake, etc., was unfit to eat,
-but what was hailed with joy by the boys was canned vegetables and
-fruit. We had been getting greasy meat for a couple of weeks and had
-no money to buy anything else, and this in a hot climate. One box was
-marked Dick Rusk and Ben Cohen. This was for our tent, and for some
-time after we were enabled to "decorate the cloth" in great style with
-canned corn, mustard pickles, pickled onions, baked beans, chow-chow,
-<span class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus11.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</span>
-condensed milk and tomato soup. One morning, being off duty, Corporals
-Cohen, Rusk and myself strolled into town. A gentleman hailed us from
-his porch and proceeded to show us his garden. This garden would fill
-any northerner with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> envy. He had orange trees, seven of them, all
-with oranges a shade darker than the beautiful green of the leaves.
-A beautiful tree of the fern family, having large branches of bright
-yellow flowers. These he said grew wild in Mexico. Enormous hydrangeas,
-hibiscus, the flowers of which were as large as an Easter lily, but
-a beautiful pink, with a maroon throat. Eight blooms were on this
-plant. The season of roses had ended, but he had some very handsome
-Marshal Neils, whose tree covered a large arbor. He had sent that
-morning to General Lee a large basket of red, white and blue flowers.
-He also showed us an Acacia tree which had delicate pink flowers the
-same time it had long brown pods of seed. We had some trouble in
-leaving this interesting gentleman. Baseball and athletic sports became
-quite popular at this time, and received the official endorsement of
-our higher officers. General Burt was often seen on the grand stand
-"rooting" for the team from his brigade. But the games were mostly
-between Wisconsin, Illinois, New Jersey and Iowa. The Wisconsin boys
-gained the championship,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> but they had to work hard for it. The Jersey
-boys excelled in the athletic sports and won nearly every event in the
-set of games. The General was quite a strict disciplinarian, but one
-day he became quite enthusiastic over a game of ball and was invited to
-take part. When he took off his coat he explained that he was no longer
-an officer, but just "one of the boys." The boys took this explanation
-literally, and during the game the General was a fair mark for all
-sorts of baseball slang and "jolly."</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus12.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p>June 28th brought a very happy conclusion to our guard duty in
-Jacksonville, from which we were relieved by a company from the First
-North Carolina regiment. The company had been worked hard, and it was
-beginning to tell on us. Sergeant Collins at noon brought in the last
-detail, and as they marched proudly up the length of the company street
-they were applauded heartily. We could now take our old place at the
-left of the regiment and have the pleasure of serving under Lieutenant
-Blake in the field drills. There was no reason now why we should
-not become the record<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> company of the regiment. The Wisconsin boys
-paid the regiment a visit one night. They were dressed only in their
-under garments, with their poncho's over their shoulders, and they
-had an elegant time. Our boys returned the visit the next night, in
-the same stylish undress, with the addition of a red blanket, instead
-of a poncho, leaving one arm bare to the shoulder. We then stuck our
-haversacks on our heads, with the flap trailing behind. The ridiculous
-get up was so taking that nearly half the regiment turned out, and
-headed by the drum corps, we marched past the Second Illinois camp and
-through the camps of the Second and Fourth Virginia, Second Wisconsin
-and Forty-ninth Iowa, in all of which officers and men turned out and
-cheered us. The comment of "Jersey, you're all right," seemed to fit
-the case exactly. All the mascots, big and little, turned out with us,
-even the red, white and blue rooster.</p>
-
-<p>Arriving back in camp, the Colonel was called out and in a neat speech
-he complimented the men on their orderly behavior, wished us to have
-all the fun we could get,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> but warned us to keep within the bounds of
-military discipline. The efforts we had put forth to make ourselves
-ridiculous had covered us with perspiration and a thick layer of dust
-clung to everything that was exposed, so that we were a sight to make
-the iron faced gods laugh. The bathhouses were soon crowded, and far
-into the night shirtless human spectres were flitting through the
-streets.</p>
-
-<p>We had a turn at drill the next morning and it was particularly severe.
-Hot! My, in the morning it seemed to blister, and we were soaked with
-perspiration, for we had regimental battle exercises; but as soon as we
-returned we stripped, got a bath and felt better. I remember distinctly
-that morning after the bath of sitting down in only my trousers and
-socks and writing a long letter to the folks at home.</p>
-
-<p>In our night patrols of the city we came across some very nice people
-who took pains to get our names, and would ask for us if we did not
-appear on guard the next night. Upon their invitation I visited a
-family by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> name of Rich, and while there two other of our boys
-came along, whereupon the table was spread and we had a nice afternoon
-lunch. Next day they sent us a big chocolate layer cake.</p>
-
-<p>The champion watermelon eater of the company was universally conceded
-to be Private Isaac Wilson, and a meal seldom passed but Ike was seen
-up to his ears in melon. This fruit cost from 20 cents to nothing,
-according to the distance from camp. One depot commissary guard of
-eight men had six melons to eat. Ike was there and they disappeared
-very quickly. Every time the reliefs awoke during the night watermelon
-stared them in the face.</p>
-
-<p>As we were upon the eve of very serious operations in Cuba, the
-authorities deemed it expedient to have the Articles of War read to the
-soldiers. There are 127, and we received them upon the installment plan
-at roll call in the morning and evening. Lieutenant Brunner read these
-so well that it was rumored he intended to lecture after the war was
-over on what not to do in war times.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>A number of excellent entertainments were given in the Y.M.C.A. tent.
-The Second Illinois band gave a concert one evening, and on another
-occasion Sergeant Gift and Private Gillen sang solos, while Private
-F.M. Stevens played enjoyable selections upon the piano; at the close
-of which a premature announcement by the chaplain of the fall of
-Santiago was made, and an enthusiastic scene took place, while the
-cheering was taken up all over camp. The boys had been following events
-closely and all were eager for action. We felt keenly the hardships our
-comrades were enduring and wished to share them. We were at this time,
-perhaps, in better condition for an active campaign than at any time of
-our stay in the south, being fully equipped, in excellent spirits and
-good health.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART FOURTH</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">PLEASURES OF THE CAMP.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p><p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus04.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-
-<p class="drop">F<span class="uppercase">or</span> July 4th an elaborate program had been prepared, but owing to a
-considerable downpour of rain it was postponed to the next day. The
-celebration probably surpassed anything of its kind Jacksonville ever
-saw, and its features are not likely to be seen again. These were:
-9 a.m., music and the reading of the Declaration of Independence,
-with speeches; 12 m., salute of 48 guns; 4.30 p.m., parade of all
-the troops in camp, numbering 12,000; but most interesting was the
-train of 189 pack mules connected with the regiment of Rough Riders
-commanded by Colonel Torrey. It was in genuine Rocky Mountain style,
-and created considerable interest. The Second Mississippi regiment of
-infantry turned out only half equipped, and the transition periods from
-a citizen to a trained soldier were seen to advantage. Our regiment
-paraded in good shape, with L Company in its<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> honorable position at the
-left of the regiment. Owing to another downpour of rain the line of
-march was shortened, and after being reviewed we marched back to camp,
-drenched to the skin. The men all had changes of underclothing and no
-bad effects resulted, but the street next morning resembled the rear of
-a tenement in New York on wash day.</p>
-
-<p>Sunday evening, July 8th, a detachment from each company of our
-regiment was assembled to attend service in the First Presbyterian
-Church of Jacksonville, and about 300 men, headed by the First
-Wisconsin band, left camp at 7 p.m. After the capture of the city by
-the Federal troops during the Civil War, this church was used by them
-as a hospital and the building has not been altered in any particular
-since then. The band led in the singing. It probably would have been
-pleasant out of doors, but in a boxlike structure of truly southern
-style, with the bass drum, snare drums and cymbals banging out "Nearer,
-My God, to Thee," it became a very trying experience indeed.</p>
-
-<p>The flowers of Florida seemed to be rather a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> myth, very few being
-seen, but those of us who had friends at home who loved flowers were
-able to find some choice specimens. The handsomest wild flower I
-saw was the Hibiscus. It grew about five feet high in dense swampy
-thickets, usually at the edge of creeks. Its blossoms measured fully
-ten inches in diameter. Its great wide throat was crimson. Yellow
-sepals and four pink petals blotched with black completed this
-beautiful flower. They grow in profusion, and against a background of
-green leaves make a very showy appearance.</p>
-
-<p>During our journey south I noticed large clumps of yellow
-Jack-in-the-Pulpits which were twice the size of our Jersey plants.
-The season of flowers in Florida is the months of February, March and
-April. Then the roses are in bloom. Marshal Neils grow in almost every
-garden in Jacksonville, some climbing to the tops of the houses, and
-upon the roof, late blossoms of tea roses were still to be seen. The
-Passion flower is very common, the climate favoring this aptly named
-blue and white legendary flower of the Crucifixion.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> Seeds of other
-flowers blown from gardens take root in the streets and empty lots,
-and among them the starry-eyed phlox lifts up its pleasant little
-face. Camellias also were very common, lading the air near them with
-rich perfume. Cannas reached perfection without any cultivation, short
-plants but immense flaming blossoms; others were yellow, blotched with
-red. The collecting of these flowers was a positive pleasure, even in
-the hot sun.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus03.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>July 9th our regiment was swelled to its full complement by the
-addition of 330 recruits from Sea Girt, and a finer lot of young men
-did not come to camp for any regiment. More than this, the State had
-done for the Nation what no other had, equipped every man ready to
-go to the front. Time and again recruits would come from Illinois,
-Wisconsin, Iowa, Virginia and North Carolina dressed just as they
-appeared at home. As our boys marched through Jacksonville escorted by
-detachments from each company, they received considerable applause.
-They carried aloft the banner "New Jersey Recruits! This is the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span>
-material that New Jersey sends." We were all proud of our State. At the
-camp their reception was cooled by a downpour of rain.</p>
-
-
-
-<p>Monday morning, July 11th, it commenced to rain and it rained in
-torrents the rest of the day and all night. It flooded the tents, so
-that boards and even boxes had to be brought into service to stand on.
-The recruits, being quartered on lower ground, were practically drowned
-out, so that they either had to stand in the rain or seek shelter in
-tents already crowded to their limits. There was hardly a dry foot in
-camp Tuesday night.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus06.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p>A large number of 1884-model Springfield rifles arrived at this time
-and our regiment was supplied. Their newest feature was a ramrod
-bayonet, the dangerous end being cast like a bit. By giving a twist to
-the rifle after entering a body it would tear the flesh horribly. In
-other respects it was the same rifle used in the National Guard for
-years.</p>
-
-<p>Thursday, July 14th, a telegram was received by Adjutant Hilton
-announcing the fall of Santiago. The news was genuine this time, and
-the occasion prompted an outburst of en<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>thusiasm. Later on the good
-feeling was increased by the welcome command of "Fall in for your pay."</p>
-
-<p>The coloring and shapes which the clouds assumed in the early evening
-were quite remarkable. One evening in particular, at about 6.30, a
-scarlet and white streak stretched across the heavens from north to
-south, and about five minutes afterwards a line of blue, which was as
-straight as if cut out with a knife, came across the north end, running
-east and west. The combination made a very striking similitude to an
-American flag.</p>
-
-<p>At the waterworks in Jacksonville there was a pond in which lived
-an alligator of variously estimated lengths and age. One day while
-I was idly watching the game fish which also inhabited the pool,
-the keeper brought the saurian's noonday lunch in the shape of a
-live chicken. Coaxing the ugly reptile to come nearer the wire fence
-proved unavailing, so the chicken was thrown about one foot from his
-snout. Like a flash the great mouth opened, there was a splash, a few
-feathers, a couple of gulps, and the huge head was rest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span>ing just the
-same as before, never moving an eye. The slang expression of "you can't
-lose me when grub is around" seemed to fit his case exactly.</p>
-
-<p>A company fund was now established for the purpose of securing a
-greater variety of food, building a mess-house, and to pay the cook
-a few more dollars than the government provided. The assessment was
-50 cents per month for each member. Arrangement was also made with a
-colored woman to do the clothes washing of the company, which also
-necessitated a payment of 50 cents a month per man. This was so cheap
-that very few could not afford it, and the wash was quite large each
-week. The intention of the company fund was to discourage the purchase
-of pies, cakes, ice cream, etc., all too frequently indulged in. Some
-of the "credits" obtained at these stores amounted to $3.00 or more,
-which the soldier was supposed to liquidate on pay-day.</p>
-
-<p>Now that the signs pointed to an early termination of the war, the
-prospect of getting to Cuba grew less and less, and the boys com<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>menced
-to turn their thoughts on pleasure. A large number of cameras made
-their appearance, and trips were taken for the purpose of getting
-views of Florida life. These pictures were developed in Jacksonville
-and usually sent home. Some excellent ones were obtained. Trips were
-made to Pablo Beach, a bathing resort on the coast to the east, St.
-Augustine, and up the St. Johns river, all of which were at reduced
-rates.</p>
-
-<p>To the above list of diversions must be added a wedding. The ceremony
-took place in the Y.M.C.A. tent, and was between a member of the Second
-Illinois Regiment and his sweetheart from Chicago. The bride was fair,
-wore a white dress, with bouquets of orange blossoms at her belt
-and in her hair. The groom wore, in addition to his uniform, a high
-white collar that was the envy of all the boys and white kid gloves,
-which must have been excruciating. They received a great ovation upon
-leaving. Other marriages took place, some of which we did not hear of
-until reaching home. Some of our boys were regular attendants at church
-and sang in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> choirs, being heartily welcomed by the good people
-of Jacksonville.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos05.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="caption"> COLOR GUARD, JACKSONVILLE, FLA.</p>
-
-<p>Early one Saturday morning Corporals Cohen, Rusk and myself decided
-upon a trip to St. Augustine. Inspection of quarters was completed at
-8.30 a.m. and we immediately proceeded to Jacksonville to take the
-train south, there being no other duties during the day. The fare to
-soldiers had been reduced one-half, or 50 cents, which fact enabled
-large numbers of soldiers to take advantage of the trip. This day was
-no exception, and the cars were crowded. We went to the front of the
-train and there found an empty coach, save for two or three negroes.
-We decided that we were extremely fortunate indeed. The rear was
-partitioned off for baggage. The conductor happened through and asked
-us if we could not find room in the rear cars. We were surprised, but
-answered that we might have found room on the "roof." After he had
-left it dawned upon us that this was a car portioned off for negroes,
-as members of this race only came into it, so we very graciously asked
-those in the car if they had any objec<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>tions to our staying there. The
-courtesy took them so much by surprise that they could only stare at us
-for answer. So we took our seats again and prepared to enjoy ourselves.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus01.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p>After a half hour's wait we were fairly started, only to stop every few
-miles to sidetrack and allow other trains to pass. These waits became
-so numerous that it was nearly noon before we reached St. Augustine and
-were just one and one-half hours behind schedule.</p>
-
-<p>All the way down the forests seemed fresher and the flowers grew more
-thickly among the pines. The absence of charred, blackened areas was
-also noticeable.</p>
-
-<p>The city, seen from a distance, reminded one strongly of a city of
-the Moors, for above the trees rose a bewildering labyrinth of towers
-and minarets, which carried us back to the charming descriptions in
-Irving's "Mahomet" and "Granada." We alighted at a very pretty and
-airy station surrounded by large beds of flowers and tropical plants.
-Among the many importuning jehus we selected one who took us free
-to a restaurant. The ebony driver was very loquacious; laughed when
-we laughed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> and interspersed gratis information which was highly
-interesting. We jested at the boys along the streets not so fortunate
-as we, and tried to cheer them up with the assurance that it was five
-miles at least to the nearest "grub."</p>
-
-
-
-<p>The air was remarkably clear and bracing, and is so all the year
-round. Every garden seemed a mass of color. Oleanders were everywhere,
-filling the air with their spicy breath, drooping their great bowers
-of blossoms over the sidewalks. Every home had its well-kept lawns
-and shade trees, some with fountains playing enhanced the beauty of
-the place. The Memorial Presbyterian Church is very handsome, and
-contains one of the finest organs in the South. H.M. Flagler built
-this church in 1890 in memory of his daughter, and it is supposed to
-have cost $250,000. A little to the east is the Baptist church, built
-a few years later, with its heavy impressive front and tall, square
-<span class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus12.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</span>
-tower, preserving the sedate architecture of this denomination, while
-conforming to the general tendency to things Moorish. But here on our
-right is one of the most magnificent hotels of the South, the Ponce
-de<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> Leon, which stands alone the most handsome and unique of its kind
-in the United States. Built upon the style of the Moorish palaces of
-the fifteenth century, its architecture is at once voluptuous and
-elegant,&mdash;towers and minarets shooting up here and there. Its massive
-iron gates and chains with spiked balls, heavy oaken doors, courts,
-balconies, and marbled walks, are richly carved in Moorish figures. The
-gardens surrounding it are only such as a tropical climate can produce.
-Stately palmettos and palms shoot up their feathery tops above graceful
-bananas lazily waving their plumes in the fresh sea breeze; huge masses
-of oleanders, which here seem to reach their perfection, bending
-beneath the weight of their blossoms, formed arches of exquisite
-beauty across the walks; century plants, orange trees with leaves of
-the softest green imaginable while underneath were clusters of fruit
-of a still darker color, reminders of a golden harvest. Hydrangeas of
-enormous size, the leaves of which were entirely hidden by the great
-tresses of pink and blue flowers,&mdash;were scattered profusely in all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>
-directions. Roses seemed to grow everywhere, climbing over fences, into
-trees, up the sides of buildings&mdash;handsome ones that are strangers to
-northerners who have slim purses; and right in the midst of all this
-beauty of color were playing fountains sending sprays of silver ten and
-fifteen feet high. It is a veritable Garden of Eden. Henry M. Flagler
-is the controlling spirit in this beautiful palace, as he is in the
-other hotels, the massive Cordova and beautiful Alcazar, with their
-lovely gardens and fountains. Mr. Flagler's influence extends over the
-greater part of the east coast in hotels and railroads of this famous
-wintering State.</p>
-
-<p>The older part of the town lies along the water front, just as the
-Spaniards had planned the city. On our left was an old building
-formerly used as a barracks, but now devoted to the manufacture of
-cigars and quite dilapidated. On the right stood a large square
-building which many times resounded with the laughter and possible
-braggadocio of the cavalier, for this was the residence of the
-Governor-General of the Floridas. It is now used as the post-office.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Our interesting guide announced that before us was the Plaza, where the
-landing of Menendez was celebrated September 7, 1565, amid the thunder
-of artillery and the blasts of trumpets, with the banner of Castile and
-Aragon unfurled. He immediately ordered the celebration of mass, while
-his soldiers chanted the Te Deum. He named the place St. Augustine, for
-he had sighted land on the feast day of that saint. The celebration of
-mass in this old city has been kept up uninterruptedly for 333 years.
-The old Cathedral with its four chimes (one of which has the date
-1682) hanging from bars in niches of the steeple, give a truly Spanish
-flavor to the surroundings. The present old building was built in 1793;
-the original one having been destroyed by fire the previous year. A
-monument in the center of the Plaza marks the commemoration of the
-adoption of the Spanish constitution of 1812; also a monument of the
-Florida soldiers of the civil war stands here. Across the street on the
-right is Trinity Episcopal Church, consecrated in 1833 by Bishop Bowen
-of South Carolina.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Our restaurant now appearing, our interest in the "most ancient city"
-suddenly lapsed over the prospect of a good dinner. We had a chance to
-wash and then partook of a fine repast, the like of which we had not
-seen since leaving home. Fine bread, green corn, roast lamb and golden
-butter, and to crown all, a heaping saucer of ice cream, and all for 25
-cents.</p>
-
-<p>In the Plaza before mentioned stands a shed, covering a platform
-upon which for over 200 years slaves were bought and sold, and many
-a heart-rending scene took place there. The powder magazines of the
-Spanish were pointed out to us; now a barracks for a battery of
-artillery; also the oldest house in the United States, and now so
-improved (?) that hardly any of the quaint architecture is apparent. It
-is at present owned by a Dr. Carver.</p>
-
-<p>Two monuments on St. Francis street commemorate the Dade massacre
-in December, 1835; Major Dade, Captain Frazer and one hundred men,
-after a desperate resistance, were mercilessly slaughtered by the
-Seminoles under Micanopy, an Indian who, tradition<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> says, "could eat
-a calf at one sitting, and then coil up like a snake" to digest the
-repast. Osceola, chief of the Seminoles, slew General Thompson, the
-Indian Agent, and then waged a ruthless war which ended only after the
-Okeechobee battle had been fought and the celebrated chief captured. We
-were now going through streets lined with fine residences and gardens.
-Some of the banana trees were in blossom while others had small green
-bunches hanging from the topmost boughs. Oranges were abundant. Date
-palms waved their feathery crests at us, but above all were the beauty
-and fragrance of the oleanders.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus11.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Now we came in sight of what everybody comes here to see, the old
-Fort. Almost before we were aware of it we were at the celebrated
-gates, which are built of stone and formed part of the line of defence
-projected at the time the Fort was built. There are niches or sentry
-boxes in each gate, where undoubtedly the sentries found shelter from
-the weather. We tramped up the hill to the Fort and were struck at
-once by the peculiar sub<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>stance with which it is built. On Anastasia
-Island across the bay are quarries from which this substance "Coquina"
-or shell rock is dug. Double walls were built of stone and broken
-stone and Coquina were rammed down between them. This wall being of
-such peculiar composition would impact the shot, and would prevent it
-from splintering or cracking. We entered over the drawbridge and were
-confronted by the arms of Castile and Aragon over the portcullis. Here
-was legitimate Spanish prey. Why not capture it? But the eye of the
-Ordnance Sergeant is upon us. The pulley and beams which raised and
-held the drawbridge across the moat are still in the walls. We are now
-in the court or assembly place. On the right are two guard rooms and
-a dungeon. In this dungeon Osceola was confined and niches cut in the
-wall by him for the purpose of looking out on the court are shown.
-The next door contains an old Spanish lock of considerable size. The
-iron framework of the door is still intact, but has been filled in
-with new wood. The next room<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> is the chapel and a niche for the patron
-saint Augustine. Here mass was said and marriages performed. A part
-of the timbers supporting the choir loft is still there. In the next
-room holes in the wall indicate where crosses, thumb-screws and other
-instruments of fiendish torture of the inquisition were placed. Rings
-to which chains were attached are still in the walls. A torch was now
-lighted and we entered from the last room into one of utter darkness,
-save a window for ventilation eighteen feet from the ground. It was
-from this room that the two Seminole chiefs, Wildcat and Hadjo escaped
-through that very window, the bars of which were scarce twelve inches
-apart, and made a leap of thirty feet to the ground on the outside.
-The guide called to us to follow, and led us through an aperture six
-feet high and two and a half feet wide. This room is five feet by
-twenty and fifteen feet high. We take this size from our guide, for
-we can see nothing. Then he bade us stoop low and follow closely. We
-were beginning to have a creepy feeling about the roots of our hair,
-and this increased after<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> emerging from an entrance four and a half by
-three feet wide. The air is oppressive and the sepulchral tones of the
-guide announces that this room was not known to exist until it had been
-in possession of the United States for fourteen years. It is twenty
-feet long, thirteen feet wide and seven feet high. With the entrance
-closed, death would occur in about fifteen minutes. In the outer room
-through which we stumbled, tradition says two skeletons, male and
-female, were found hanging in cages nailed to the wall. The incredulous
-are shown the nail holes. These dungeons were used probably to a
-considerable extent during the inquisition. At each of the four corners
-of the fort is a watch tower, named respectively St. Peter, St. Paul,
-St. Charles and St. Augustine, into each of which curiosity led us.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>The broad terreplein furnishes one of the finest promenades imaginable,
-the ocean being plainly visible over Anastasia Island, while the
-freshest of sea breezes neutralize the intense heat of the sun.
-One hundred and ninety-one years is the record of labor on this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>
-fortification. For sixty years the Appalachian Indians were compelled
-to work upon it and to their efforts are probably due the immense labor
-of construction.</p>
-
-<p>We had now "done" the Ancient City pretty thoroughly, so we again took
-our carriage, obtained another square meal and boarded the train,
-arriving in camp as taps were sounding. The Spaniards were fond of
-bombast and high-sounding phrases. Here is a proclamation issued by the
-Governor upon landing in St. Augustine:</p>
-
-<p>"I, Panfilo de Narvaez, cause to be known to you how God created the
-world and charged St. Peter to be the Sovereign of all men in whatever
-country they might be born. God gave him the whole world for his
-inheritance. One of his successors made it a gift to the King and Queen
-of Spain so that the Indians are their subjects. You will be compelled
-to accept Christianity. If you refuse and delay agreeing to what I
-have proposed to you, I will march against you. I will subject you to
-obedience to the Church and his Majesty. I will obtain possession of
-your wives and chil<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>dren. I will reduce you to slavery, and the blood
-be upon your own head. Amen."</p>
-
-<p>When Menendez landed, he took possession of the whole Western
-Hemisphere in the name of the King of Spain, and this present year has
-seen the grand finale of the act begun with great pomp in 1565.</p>
-
-<p>One Sunday afternoon in the Y.M.C.A. tent General O.O. Howard made an
-address to the boys which was brimming with patriotism and recited a
-pathetic anecdote of a young lieutenant of artillery who at Gettysburg
-was wounded and bled to death. I was very proud to grasp the left hand
-of the old hero whose eyes had flashed fire in a dozen fierce and
-bloody battles of the civil war.</p>
-
-<p>In due course of events the mess-house became a reality. It was 48 by
-18, roofed over, the sides being open. It contained two long tables and
-seated about one hundred. Here the boys would congregate. The incoming
-mail was distributed here, and the assorting of the laundry also.</p>
-
-<p>Brigade drills in battle formation took place now quite frequently.
-This formation consists<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> of sending out scouts, flankers, firing line,
-supports and reserves. At 7.30 a.m. the companies were formed into
-battalions, the battalions into regiments, and the regiments into
-brigade while they marched towards the field. Our brigade (the First)
-consisted of the First North Carolina, Second New Jersey and Second
-Illinois. As we passed out of our camp we met the First North Carolina,
-which preceded us, and the Second Illinois followed as we passed their
-camp. Route step had been ordered, for it was hot and the order from
-General Burt was to make it as little burdensome as possible. It was a
-very picturesque march. The men rolled up their sleeves, loosened their
-gunslings, and thrust their arms between them and the barrels with the
-butts up, barrel pointing down across the thigh. Others carried their
-rifles reversed to the above, then again laid them across the top of
-both shoulders.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus04.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Imagine the picture those three thousand men made winding in columns
-over bridges, through defiles, over fields, and through pine groves.
-Here we see the head of the column<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> going up that hill with General
-Burt and staff leading. The General is a small man, has a light grey
-moustache and keen eyes. He does not get excited,&mdash;always has a calm
-expression. His staff are around him, all men of superior build but
-inferior rank. Every once in a while one of these will receive an order
-and instantly scurry away. Now come the men of the First North Carolina
-in uniforms of dark navy; but suddenly our view is shut out, for we are
-passing through an unused railroad cut and we see only a short distance
-ahead of us.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus05.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>But see! There goes the first battalion of our own Second across that
-high railroad bank, and then they disappear down its side. We look
-sharp now, for we are going over a corduroy road over a stream. This
-is made of tree trunks with their branches thrown between to fill up
-the angles. Then we go up a hill, and spread out before us in the
-fine groves, are the North Carolinians in battle array along a wire
-fence. The first and third battalions of our regiment move in behind
-them and form on their left, being a continua<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>tion of the firing line.
-Our battalion is the support of our regiment. Looking back, we see
-the Illinois boys trudging over the ground we have just left. We are
-getting thoroughly interested in the movements. The Second Illinois
-marches past, taking up a position to the left of our firing line.
-We now have two lines, firing line and supports. Then the positions
-are changed. The Illinois boys are sent chasing towards the St. Johns
-river, and their cheers can be heard. We advance our columns, and soon
-come up with the men from the Windy City. The General has seen enough
-and orders a rest. The bugle kindly sounds the retreat and we pass over
-again the same ground that made our advance so picturesque.</p>
-
-<p>In the course of the first of these drills we had to get across a small
-stream by jumping on a board laid in the middle, and making another
-leap for safety. This process delayed our line so that the order was
-again given for double time to close up the gap. Double time under the
-best of conditions is bad enough, but at 9 a.m. on that morning the
-heat was fierce.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> We ran about one thousand yards and then felt as if a
-downy bed at home would just about fill the bill. However, we got over
-it all right and it has now become part of our stock of anecdotes.</p>
-
-<p>A rifle range had been established about two miles from camp under the
-able supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Currie, assisted by Capt. Geo.
-E. Wells and the men of G Company. The range was used by the regiments
-composing the Seventh Army Corps, each one going to the range once in
-every twenty-five days. It was in many respects similar to our State
-range at Sea Girt; but instead of a background of sea and sky which did
-not afford any relief to the eyes upon the long ranges, we had here
-dense pine trees and a high hill behind the targets, which brought them
-out very distinctly. These targets were in the shape of a man kneeling
-and the same size as those used at Sea Girt. They revolved instead of
-sliding up and down when struck. Corporal Rusk, Artificer Doerflinger,
-and Private Val. Greuter of our company were employed for two weeks in
-their construction.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus08.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Thursday, July 26th, we were hustled out early, and each man received
-five blank cartridges. We all knew what that meant, and our blood
-tingled through our veins in great shape. We marched in company with
-one battalion of the Second Illinois to the grounds in the near
-vicinity of our range and immediately formed in battle array. We were
-opposed by the First North Carolina and two battalions of the Second
-Illinois. Scouts and flankers were sent out from our company, the
-latter in charge of Sergeant Van Roden. Skirmishers under Sergeant
-Dabinett then advanced. The balance of the company were ordered to
-deploy and lie down. Soon shots were fired in front, then came shots
-from the right, as the scouts met the enemy and were driven in. Heavy
-volleys followed, and nearer and nearer they came. The trees and
-undergrowth were so thick we could not see very far ahead. Finally a
-volley was fired on our right center, then we saw Sergeant Dabinett
-and his skirmishers running in, perspiration streaming down their
-faces. Immediately the supports returned the fire and we were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> soon
-enveloped in smoke. Lieutenant Brunner's command rang out, and we
-deployed, extending the firing line,&mdash;all were now in action. Our boys
-were remarkably steady in their volley firing. Additional flankers were
-thrown out on our left and it was quite amusing to see the enemy's
-heads duck when a dozen shots were fired at them from an unexpected
-quarter. This finally brought forth a volley from the enemy, who had
-been under cover, whereupon we fell back to the main body, while the
-enemy advanced; but the recall was sounded and the "battle" was over.</p>
-
-<p>July 31st Private Guy L. Fake was appointed Colonel Hine's orderly.
-This was a position highly prized by the men, as the best appearing
-private was selected to fill it from the guard detail of over fifty.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus09.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>A party of our boys went crabbing in the St. Johns river and brought
-back 201 crabs. These were distributed and we had quite a feast.
-Company F's men caught 225. The residents told us they were unfit to
-eat, but we proved to them that they were.</p>
-
-<p>We found in our travels very few fruits<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> and vegetables where we had
-expected to find an abundance. In the market in Jacksonville we could
-see plenty of vegetables; but when we intimated to the dealers that
-the potatoes, cabbages, onions and carrots looked about like they did
-farther north, they laughed and said: "Well, I shouldn't wonder, for
-they came from New Jersey and Pennsylvania." A great many of the small
-fruits, such as blackberries, raspberries and strawberries, came from
-Georgia. Peaches alone were plentiful. Persimmons were occasionally
-seen. Tropical fruits, of course, were very abundant. The orange trees
-in this section were killed by the great frost of 1895, but were
-beginning to bear again. The tree was as common a sight as our pear and
-apple trees. Watermelons were so plentiful that the market was glutted
-with them, and 5 cents would buy as large a one as could be lifted. The
-storekeepers cautioned us not to buy the small ripe ones. They having
-been of slower growth, contained more of the impurities of the soil and
-were consequently more liable to cause<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> fevers. After August 1st the
-sale of melons was prohibited.</p>
-
-<p>The sweet potatoes were considerably darker than those grown farther
-north and much sweeter. The colored people made very good pies out of
-them, which they peddled in the camp. These pies were quite similar
-to our pumpkin pies in appearance. With this scarcity of fruits and
-vegetables it was no wonder that we jumped for joy when a box was
-received from home which contained, among other things, a can of
-preserved blackberries and three solid cucumbers, the seed of which
-latter had been planted by the writer when home on furlough the day
-before the regiment started south.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART FIFTH</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph2">AUGUST 1898</p>
-
-<p class="ph3">ITS BRIGHT AND GLOOMY DAYS</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus06.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="drop">O<span class="uppercase">n</span> Tuesday evening, August 2d, the officers of the regiment gave a lawn
-party in camp. A platform was built in front of Colonel Hine's tent,
-and trees and shrubbery surrounded it in such a natural way that one
-would have thought it had been placed in a grove. The affair was quite
-successful and was graced by the presence of General Lee and staff,
-with the Generals and Colonels of the different brigades and regiments
-encamped here, besides notables from Jacksonville.</p>
-
-<p>Thursday, August 4th, we had another sham battle, and this time we
-were the attacking force, composed of our regiment and one battalion
-of the First North Carolina. Opposed to us on the defensive were
-two battalions of the First North Carolina and the Second Illinois
-regiment. About one mile from camp our advance guard came upon the
-enemy concealed in a ravine, along which they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> had deployed, and a
-rapid exchange of shots took place. Company after company of our
-regiment were deployed on the run to their skirmish lines. As each
-company arrived it immediately engaged the enemy. Our company being
-last in order of march, we had longer to run, and we were placed far on
-the enemy's right. In fact, we succeeded completely in turning their
-right flank back, so that their whole line was like a bent bow. Our
-company pushed through and over fences and came upon the enemy lying
-behind a fence at the rear of a house. Here the fire was the hottest,
-and at one time our lines were within fifty feet of each other, but
-just able to see through the bushes that lined the yard.</p>
-
-<p>The boys nicknamed this "the back-yard skirmish." Reinforcements
-arriving, we gradually extended our lines, so that the foe were having
-a hot fire upon three sides at once. Expecting a general advance along
-the lines at this time, we held our fire, as only ten blank cartridges
-had been given us and we had used up nearly all of them. We lay on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>
-the ground in the hot sun, perspiring from every pore, expecting every
-minute to receive the word. Rapid firing was going on on our extreme
-left and center and away off to the right the volleys were thundering.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus02.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>This was a sore temptation to the boys, who every once in a while
-popped away wherever they saw a head emerge from the tall grass, and
-it delighted them greatly to see the individual drop as he heard the
-report, seemingly ashamed to find that the other fellow had the "drop"
-on him. Sudden cheering from the center was the signal for our advance.
-This time we only ran about ten yards and then dropped like a flash,
-for the enemy was about to pour a volley into us. Just at this moment
-the bugle sounded the "cease firing" and then the "assembly." When
-the firing ceased we had our opponents nearly surrounded. One man was
-hurt slightly with a bayonet. It was a great victory for the Second
-New Jersey. Lieutenant Brunner, the only one of Company L's officers
-present, had a hard time trying to keep his command under control,
-and succeeded ex<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span>tremely well, deserving the highest praise, the
-non-commissioned officers and men conforming to his commands promptly
-and with energy.</p>
-
-<p>Friday morning at company drill Lieutenant Brunner sent the first
-platoon out through the woods and five minutes later the second to
-find the first. The second, under Sergeant Van Roden, took a short cut
-to intercept the first, which was under Sergeant Charles Dabinett,
-and this was what happened: We (the second) took post behind a shed
-in a deserted yard. I was stationed with four men along a fence from
-which some of the boards were missing. Sergeant Collins, with Private
-Craig and two others, went out and as the first platoon appeared these
-four set up a great shouting, luring them on past our ambuscade. The
-long legged men of the first were so intent upon coming up with the
-second, represented by Sergeant Collins and three men, whose heads
-only could be seen above the tall grass and bushes, that one section
-under Corporal Cohen went fairly and squarely into the trap set for
-them. But, unlike the rough riders,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> they could not get out again, for
-my detail, getting in their rear and being reinforced by the rest of
-the platoon, they were soon disarmed. The first section with Sergeant
-Dabinett coming to their relief were also taken into camp.</p>
-
-<p>Lessons of this sort were likely to be of great benefit to the boys,
-especially as parts of our company were usually thrown out as flankers
-for the regiment, and taught them to be on their guard continually.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus01.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Towards the middle of August the climate began to tell on the boys.
-During June the ground was very dry and the atmosphere was clear and
-full of the odor of pines. In July the rains commenced, and hardly did
-the torrent cease before the sun set everything steaming. Vapor at
-night rose from the ground in greater quantities and it was not long
-before the hospitals were taxed to their utmost. In a great many cases
-home sickness would lead the way, while in others it was excesses. The
-number became so great that details from each company were sent to the
-hospital as assistants.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>The sickness was also felt among the officers. During Captain Ely's
-leave of absence Lieutenant Blake was taken down with malarial fever
-and procured leave to go up the St. Johns to weather the malady. In
-the midst of this season of sickness (although not the worst by far)
-occurred the passing away of Private Jacob Kotzenberg of typhoid, the
-first patriot of our command and the second in the regiment, just
-upon the eve of dawning peace. He was buried with honors near his
-home after befitting services, both at Jacksonville and Rutherford.
-This death stirred our people greatly and set them all to thinking.
-The peace preliminaries had been signed and our victorious armies and
-navy enjoined from making further hostile advances. The return of the
-soldiers was eagerly discussed, for it was felt that others in our
-southern army might pass away at any time.</p>
-
-<p>One week had hardly passed when two more of our comrades gave up their
-lives. Dread typhoid hovered over the camp and only the most hardy
-withstood its withering touch. These devoted lives were Private<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> Henry
-Newman of Paterson and Corporal Bennett Cohen of Rutherford. The latter
-was my tent-mate and warm friend and I knew him best. At no other time
-during our service had such a desolate feeling spread over our camp.
-It rained frequently, the nights were gloomy and damp, and some of our
-most popular boys had gone to the hospital.</p>
-
-<p>Our folks at home were clamoring for our return. Horrible stories were
-afloat there of our treatment. The unhealthfulness of the camp was such
-and lately such terrific downpours of rain had flooded everything, that
-camps on lower ground had become untenantable, so one morning when
-we found that our neighbor, the Second Virginia, had packed up and
-moved farther west, we felt that something must be done to break the
-monotonous gloomy aspect. Our boys were sickening rapidly, and only a
-few days before one of our most popular corporals had been taken from
-the street a hopeless case. We knew it as we saw him depart and pitied
-the poor fellow.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Soon after our arrival at camp orders had been issued prescribing a
-method of drying the ground under the tents, which had been provided
-with board floors. Strange to say, this order had been overlooked up
-to the present time, when it was enforced, and during the day the
-tents were shifted and the floors raised. Lime which was obtained at
-the Commissary's was liberally sprinkled around. The deaths in our
-Company proved that it was not the best thing in the world to sleep
-near the ground, from which rose malarial vapors. Sergeants Clift,
-Dabinett, Collins and Baxter, and Corporals Rusk and myself slept on
-cots and in hammocks and we kept good health, while, on the other hand,
-Corporals Cohen and Roe and Privates Kotzenberg and Newman had slept
-on the ground. One evening my hammock broke and I lay on the floor the
-rest of the night. The next morning I awoke with a decidedly heavy,
-listless feeling and made haste to mend my hammock, for I attributed
-that feeling to lying so near the earth. The camps all around had their
-tent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> floors two and three feet off the ground, and in nearly all the
-regiments which were under trees platforms were built in them on which
-the boys slept.</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illos06.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="caption">PABLO BEACH, FLA.<br />
-
-"AND SOON NOT FORTY MEN OUT OF 101 ANSWERED THE ROLL."</p>
-
-<p>One morning, instead of a monotonous drill, the Company marched out
-into the country past the camps of regiments which had departed. In the
-Fourth Illinois camp the pools of water were knee deep and a bridge had
-been built to connect two battalions. This Regiment suffered greatly.
-It was under such conditions as these that the welcome order was
-received directing our Company to proceed to Pablo Beach on provost
-duty. This beach is one of the finest along the Atlantic coast and
-extends for eighteen miles north and south. Parties frequently make the
-trip to St. Augustine in carriages along its entire length. Bright and
-early Friday, August 23d, baggage and knapsacks were loaded on army
-wagons and eight o'clock found us moving towards Jacksonville to take
-ferry and train to the seashore. The handsome uniform of our regiment
-was always a subject of remark whenever we turned<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> out for parade. This
-consisted of buff campaign hats, dark blue blouse, light blue trousers,
-with white stripes for the officers and non-coms, brown leggings, and
-in beautiful contrast was our red blanket in a roll from the left
-shoulder to the right hip. Our fancy friends of the Twenty-second and
-Twenty-third New York Regiments could not beat that combination.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus09.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Our spirits had been rising higher and higher and on the boat songs and
-jests livened things up. A curious incident of this trip is the fact
-that we crossed on the old ferryboat "Commodore Barney," built in 1857
-for passenger service between New York and Brooklyn. It was transposed
-during the civil war, so the story runs, into a mushroom gunboat and
-stationed somewhere near Norfolk, Va. It was used also as a transport,
-and five years ago it took the trip south. On our left, tied up to
-wharves, were the filibusters "Three Friends" and "Dauntless," both of
-which did about as much toward bringing on the war as anything else. On
-the east side of the river were two wrecks, one a ferryboat, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> other
-a sloop, both of which have been laying there for years and apparently
-in pretty good condition yet, typical of the want of energy to build up
-and prosper in spite of obstacles so often seen in the far south.</p>
-
-<p>We were loaded on lumber cars. The smoke from the engine nearly
-suffocated us as we shifted in our seats to relieve ourselves from
-the rocking and jolting we got from the uneven tracks and springless
-cars. We covered the seventeen miles in about forty-five minutes. This
-included stops to take on wood for the engine. This stopping for wood
-must always be included in the time of traveling on the railroads of
-the Black belt, and it never failed to bring forth bright comments
-and jests from the boys, who found a great deal of amusement in it.
-We arrived safe and sound. It was this trip, however, that completely
-broke me down and I reported at the hospital soon after our arrival.</p>
-
-<p>That night demons, snakes and alligators lurked in every corner.
-Fortunately my efforts at dislodging them threw me into a drenching
-perspiration, which broke up the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> high fever, after which I felt
-better. I was off duty for five days and afterwards enjoyed our stay
-at this place. The salt air brought out all the evil fevers which had
-gotten into our systems at Jacksonville and soon not forty men out of
-one hundred answered the roll. The duty was light, but we often found
-it necessary at times to appeal to the other companies on duty with
-us to help us out, so that some of our men should not go on duty two
-days in succession. We were particularly short in our non-commissioned
-officers. Out of six Sergeants and ten Corporals only Sergeant Baxter
-and myself were available for a whole week, Corporal Rusk having charge
-of the Quartermaster's Department, the rest being either sick or on
-furlough. A great many of our friends have been in hospitals, but
-have any of them seen the effects of typhoid after the most rigorous
-measures have been taken? Over four hundred men were at a convalescent
-hospital near the beach and they were in all stages of recovery. A
-few did not get well. On the ground floor were men who had fought the
-malady suffi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span>ciently to walk around and fold up their mattresses every
-morning. The floor space these occupied was needed in the day time.
-At every meal nourishing food was served and nearly two hundred young
-men stood in line, some with camp stools to rest upon every few steps.
-Oatmeal, rice and soups formed the principal diet, varied sometimes on
-Sunday by something more solid. But it was the general appearance of
-the poor fellows that sent a wave of sadness over me. "Who knows," said
-I, "but I may be like one of these myself some day." These invalids
-were improving, however. But upstairs, the more recent arrivals were
-lying upon cots, helpless, gazing into space, their teeth showing
-between bands of white skin once full red lips, a wasted arm thrust out
-with the flesh between the bones shrunken. A terrible sight. The boys
-who so bravely marched to war wanted now only to see the dear home once
-more.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>The food issued to the company at this time was about the same as
-it had always been, but once or twice a day we were sure of some
-combination of the coarse food that would<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> astonish and delight us,
-thanks to the skill of a competent black cook, Bob by name, who had
-seen considerable service on board tugs and other craft around the city
-of Jacksonville, and also to the tireless persistent devotion to his
-duty of our Quartermaster, who succeeded in obtaining oat meal, sugar,
-raisins and other things not on Uncle Sam's bill of fare. Oat meal and
-milk, which savored of our northern homes, was furnished to the sick of
-the company.</p>
-
-<p>After the first two weeks at this camp those who had been in the
-hospital and those who had withstood the fever so far began to brighten
-and to gain strength and they continued to do so until we started for
-home, and also because of two conditions&mdash;our position at the seashore
-and our well cooked food. The morning after our arrival we were struck
-with consternation on hearing of Corporal George H. Roe's death at
-Jacksonville. His was a serious case when he was taken from camp and we
-heard no encouraging news from him; but nevertheless when the message
-reached us it was quite a shock. He was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> Senior Corporal in the Company
-and was extremely popular. His body was sent to his home in Auburn,
-N.Y., where it was met by a bereaved mother and carefully laid away
-near the side of his father.</p>
-
-<p>Two days after the death of Corporal Roe occurred the tragic death of
-Private Peter Reddy by drowning in the surf. He evidently got beyond
-his depth and was caught in an undertow which speedily exhausted his
-strength. Private John B. Buck, of Company B, Second Alabama, seeing
-Reddy's danger, immediately swam out to his assistance and after an
-heroic struggle finally brought him, already dead, within reach of
-willing hands. But all the efforts at resuscitating him were unavailing
-and the surgeon pronounced him dead. Not being satisfied with this
-official announcement, his comrades carried him to the company street
-and worked over him for nearly an hour, but without result. He left at
-home a wife and three young children. The Company felt these two deaths
-severely. We had now lost five men from the ranks. Men were going to
-the hos<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>pital daily, and we wondered on whom the lightning would next
-fall.</p>
-
-<p>In the midst of all this gloom suddenly appeared the commission
-appointed by the Governor to investigate the condition of the Second
-and its willingness and fitness to proceed to Cuba. This commission was
-composed of Gen. Bird W. Spencer, Inspector General of Rifle Practice
-State of New Jersey, Senator William M. Johnson, and ex-Judge James M.
-Van Valen. General Spencer polled the nine companies at Jacksonville
-camp and the one on provost guard in the city; Senator Johnson, Company
-G, in charge of the rifle range, and Judge Van Valen, our Company at
-the seashore. I was delighted to be recognized by the Judge as the son
-of a once close friend of his. The result of the poll determined the
-Governor to petition the War Department to have our Regiment mustered
-out.</p>
-
-
-
-
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART SIXTH</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">PABLO BEACH AND THE JOURNEY HOME</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus11.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p class="drop">S<span class="uppercase">eptember</span> 2d the Regiment moved down and occupied the ground to the
-south of us about one mile and one hundred yards from the ocean. The
-ground was covered with scrub palmettos, the roots of which ran all
-over the ground. This necessitated considerable axe work before tents
-could be pitched, and it was late in the evening when the camp was
-finally in a condition to sleep. Rattlesnakes seemed all too plentiful
-in this scrub and boldly invaded the camp. One careless young man
-crawled into his tent without first exploring its interior and was
-badly bitten by one of these horrible reptiles. The idea of sleeping
-amongst such bedfellows was anything but pleasant, and the weather now
-becoming stormy and cooler, the danger from the snakes increased, for
-they had a natural tendency to seek the warmth which they could find
-alongside a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> sleeping body. Before we left other regiments camped to
-the south of our Regiment, notably Colonel Bryan's Nebraskan.</p>
-
-<p>A favorable pastime of the boys was to go out to the beach at daylight
-for a swim in the surf and incidentally gather the pretty delicate
-ribbed shells, which seemed to reflect all the rays of the rising sun,
-which here shone out in all its glory. This King of Day made a most
-gorgeous picture, such as I had believed existed only in an artist's
-very elastic imagination. His golden shafts of beauty will never fade
-from my memory. We made quite a collection of shells and sent them
-home. There were two vacancies among the Corporals owing to the deaths
-of Roe and Cohen. Charles H. Wallis and Ed W. Killmer were appointed to
-fill those positions.</p>
-
-<p>One evening, some time after taps had sounded and just as the boys had
-begun to have a drowsy feeling that sleeping on pine boards wasn't so
-very bad after all, a considerable commotion was raised in camp by the
-cry of fire. We hurriedly kicked off our blankets, gave a hitch or two
-to our trousers<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> to keep them on, and then sallied out. One of the four
-frame houses at the north edge of our camp was on fire. These houses
-were built of only one thickness of board, having no plaster or lath.
-Standing in front and looking sharp, one could see pigs rooting behind
-the house. The building was like tinder and burned fiercely.</p>
-
-<p>As we passed the quarters of the company of Texans who were on guard
-with us, their bugler was trying to blow his head off with a lot of
-weird, shrill blasts, which their Captain kindly explained in forcible
-language was the "fire-call," and he'd be so and so if he wouldn't
-court-martial every son of a Texan if they didn't fall in and obey
-orders. There was considerable confusion around the house for a while,
-but the soldiers soon got to work under the leadership of the officers.
-Members of our Company climbed up the front porch and to the roof of
-the adjoining house, not thirty feet away, and sat there for over an
-hour wetting the roof and sides, while the steam floated around them.
-During the conflagration the half wild hogs and their litters<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> would
-run up close to the flames, stare stupidly into the cauldron until it
-became too hot for them, when they would scamper away, grunting and
-squealing, into the brush. The house burned completely up, for not a
-stick was visible after it died out.</p>
-
-<p>At this time we received word that the Regiment was to be mustered
-out, and a Regular Army officer who had been detailed to our Regiment
-ordered us to prepare our books for transmission to the War Department.
-This writing up of the records was a complete revelation to the
-companies. Not one in the Regiment had made any successful attempt to
-keep the books properly. G Company probably came the nearest to it, and
-theirs were the first to be O K'd. But it was over two weeks after the
-order was issued before the mustering officers could state just when
-the Regiment could start for home.</p>
-
-<p>The final week proved a busy one indeed and the patience of the
-clerical force of the Regiment was tried sorely. Sergeant Baxter,
-Private Stevens and myself were detailed for this work, and we kept at
-it every day<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> and sometimes far into the night. No instructions other
-than verbal had been given to start the machinery in motion. Nobody
-seemed to know just what should be done. Tedious work performed with
-care had to be done over again. Missing orders, letters and other
-documents had to be accounted for and records which could not be
-procured had to have affidavits made out to that effect.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus01.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>When the men of the National Guard were mustered into service they had
-the uniform given them by the State, which in some instances had been
-worn over four years. They also received at Sea Girt new suits of State
-uniforms to replace old ones and got them with the understanding that
-the State would not charge for them. In one or two instances clothes
-were torn to get a new suit. Now the United States charges these same
-National Guardsmen for two suits of clothes&mdash;the suit which had been
-worn four years and the new one which did not fit, and in many cases
-had never been worn. The total amount charged us by the Government
-was over twenty-one dollars and this amount was deducted from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> each
-soldier's clothing allowance in the last payment.</p>
-
-<p>The final order for striking tents was received on the 20th of
-September, and daylight of the 22d found us all ready to throw the
-tents, strap on our knapsacks and start home. The tents and baggage
-of the Company had to be loaded on flat cars. To do this a car of
-lumber had to be unloaded. It belonged to Colonel Bryan's Regiment and
-his men were going at the unloading in such a matter of fact way as
-to exasperate Lieutenant Blake, and at his order a dozen of our boys
-jumped on the load and commenced to get rid of it in such a way as to
-open the eyes of the Nebraskans. They were roundly chafed by their
-Lieutenant "for allowing a lot of Jerseymen to put you to sleep in
-unloading lumber, you who have handled it all your lives."</p>
-
-<p>After this was completed the Company's luggage was packed away solidly
-upon this car and we were called into company formation ready for the
-train; but the railroad could only take one battalion at a time and
-it was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> after 1 o'clock before we could get started. The train had
-passed through a heavy shower and the floors of each car and the wooden
-bottoms to the seats were deep in water which had come in at the open
-windows. A heavy shower drenched us as we marched through Jacksonville.
-The boys received hearty handshakes from the friends they had made.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus06.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>We were worrying about our wet blankets, which were strapped on top
-of our knapsacks, when we were ushered into Pullman sleeping coaches.
-It was an agreeable surprise and we immediately proceeded to ensconce
-ourselves in the most comfortable positions. In a short time, amid
-a lot of noise and banging of cartridges, we drew out of the depot,
-scurried out past camps and through groves, catching a glimpse of
-Torrey's rough riders, with whom we had left one of our number, out
-over rushing torrents, swelled to overflowing by the recent rains and
-covering vast areas with their yellow tumbling waters.</p>
-
-<p>These we passed cautiously for fear of washouts. As we passed to the
-rear of Savannah it grew dark; but sitting musing at the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> window
-I could not help noting the wild, desolate region we were passing
-through. Here and there stood some giant tree stark naked in the
-moonlight and swaying from the branches, with gruesome effect, was that
-remarkable product of nature, Spanish or Florida moss, and I could not
-help recalling the shuddering stories told by Sherman's troopers of
-ghosts and dead men, clanking chains and bloodhounds of the Southern
-forest. The palmettos reared their shaggy heads in outline against the
-sky, for all the world like a jack-in-the-box of our childhood days;
-but I was here interrupted by my bedfellow, who insisted on my turning
-in, which I reluctantly did. But wasn't it jolly to lay on something
-softer than a plank? And after being served with our old stand-by,
-coffee, from a bathtub, we slept soundly.</p>
-
-<p>We passed through Columbia, South Carolina, due north to Charlotte,
-North Carolina, and Salisbury, Greensboro, to Danville, Virginia,
-places made historic by Sherman and after the surrender at Appomattox.
-We stopped nearly an hour at Danville, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span> when we finally started
-again had a goodly stock of everything to eat. Up to this point we had
-passed acres of cotton in bloom, that farther south being taller and
-handsomer plants, and every stop brought portions of the royal plant
-of the South into the cars. In the early days of the Civil War the
-triumphant voice of the Confederacy proclaimed "King Cotton rules the
-earth." But before that strife of brothers ended the thunderous tones
-of the North drowned that in the South with "Corn, not Cotton, is
-King," and verily it proved so.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus12.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Lynchburg and Charlotteville, Virginia, ushered us into the tobacco
-district. But we saw very little of this plant, for it had just been
-gathered. Darkness settled down on us before reaching the latter
-town. Coffee awaited us there, and we were roused up at 10 o'clock
-to receive it in its virgin liquid purity. Nearly half the car as a
-result was awake all the rest of the night. At 4 a.m. on Saturday, we
-reached Washington and were greatly surprised and pleased to find that
-a bountiful lunch had been prepared for us by the good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> and thoughtful
-women of the Pension Bureau&mdash;grapes, apples, sandwiches and the best
-coffee we had had for five months. There will always remain in years
-to come one warm spot in the heart of each one of our boys for the
-patriotic devotion of these excellent women.</p>
-
-<p>But now came a kaleidoscopic change. Instead of indifferently
-cultivated fields, barren wastes and swamps, behold here were
-fields teeming with corn and garden truck of all kinds. The farmers
-were out with their men hilling up the rows of celery, parsley and
-onions; fine pasture lands spread out before us; well fed cattle
-standing contentedly under drooping willows, and, to crown all,
-well built, substantial farm houses and barns, all denoted with an
-unmistakable stamp that which can be seen all through our Northern
-states&mdash;prosperity. Baltimore was reached at 7, Wilmington at 8, and
-Philadelphia at about 10 in the morning.</p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus02.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>From Washington we had the extreme pleasure of going real fast, our
-train now running over the double tracks of the Pennsyl<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span>vania Railroad.
-Speculation was rife as to when we would reach Sea Girt. Every stop
-or slow down would surely bring forth an impatient exclamation, and
-then wagers would be made all over again. But while this was going on
-we passed over the Delaware, and as the Jersey side was reached the
-enthusiasm vented itself in cheers, as we fully realized how near we
-were to home, and then how we did make time. We fairly seemed to fly,
-but it was all too slow, past farming-lands one acre of which was
-worth a dozen in the South; apple trees loaded with ripe fruit; fields
-of corn ready for the sickle, yellow pumpkins, savoring of delicious
-pies; <i>these</i> were familiar home scenes, but temporarily lost sight of
-in our recent surroundings; past historic New Brunswick, Freehold and
-Princeton. At about 1.30 we pulled into Manasquan with Camp Voorhees
-in plain sight. Here we unloaded and, escorted by the Fourth Regiment
-Band, marched to camp, where Company L was taken in tow by Company L of
-the Fourth, and so on through the battalion. But it was a sight to see
-the fine rosy potatoes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span> they had and the butter, "all you want on your
-bread." We marveled greatly, to say the least. This lunch was quickly
-over, and we boarded our section again. After several tedious waits we
-finally reached Rutherford a little before 7 in the evening, amid red
-fire and exploding crackers.</p>
-
-<p>Through a dense mass of humanity the company marched. The scenes
-attending our leaving for the war were again enacted, but with
-three-fold vigor. Our relatives and friends struggled desperately to
-break through and forcibly grasp some husband, brother or son, and
-failing in this, would hysterically call out. Some were weeping, some
-were laughing, but it was all joy unalloyed. Our drill and discipline
-told to advantage here, and we succeeded in keeping our line, otherwise
-we would have been scattered to the winds.</p>
-
-<p>We were formally welcomed back by Mayor Turner, representing the
-people of Rutherford and surrounding towns, and invited to partake of
-a banquet in the near future. Lieutenant Blake now saw that it was
-useless to try and hold the men together longer, so the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> final command
-to break ranks was given and then every man "Tommy" of us was hugged as
-he had never been hugged before. One week later the company assembled
-at Sea Girt and there received their furloughs, which held good until
-the final muster out at Paterson, November 21, 1898.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>The month of May, 1898, had not passed before relief committees had
-organized for the purpose of looking after the families of those
-soldiers of the National Guard who decided that their duty to the State
-and the country demanded their presence at the front, and little ones
-at home were left without a bread winner and protector.</p>
-
-<p>The members of this Relief Committee were Mayor E.J. Turner of
-Rutherford, Mayor William McKenzie of East Rutherford, Rev. J.Y.
-Hubach, and Messrs. Charles Burrows, Oscar Gunz, William H. Smith,
-James Leyland, Cornelius Collins, Edward A. Jeanneret, James A. Morgan,
-William H. Taylor and P.B.S. Hodges. This committee received a total of
-$1,218.64, all of which was spent in the good cause.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span></p>
-
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus03.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-<p>Sunday, July 10th, a Service of Thanksgiving took place at Grace
-Episcopal Church. Special prayers were offered for sick and wounded
-soldiers and sailors, and for those who mourned dead heroes. It was
-in accordance with the proclamation issued by the President, and the
-sermon by the Rev. Henry M. Ladd, was along National lines, emphasizing
-the duties of the Christian soldier. After the presentation of the
-offering, the congregation and clergyman read antiphonally the psalm
-for thanksgiving after a naval victory, singing at its close the
-"Gloria in Excelsis." The service closed with the prayer of thanks for
-victory at sea, and a prayer for peace, followed by the Benediction.</p>
-
-<p>It was a stirring service, and to have taken part in it was the event
-of a lifetime, and not likely to be repeated. Services of like nature
-were held in all the churches.</p>
-
-<p>Tuesday evening, July 26th, a number of kindly volunteers, under
-the auspices of the Relief Committee, gave an entertainment in the
-Armory, which netted about $150. It was an excellent one, combining
-serio-comic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> drama with highly cultured singing and pleasing tableaux.
-The names of these devoted friends were as follows: "A Quiet Family,"
-Messrs. George H. Whitman, James A. Morgan, Mrs. Mary Davis, Miss
-Lizzie Davis; orchestra, Mr. Louis Baxter and others; Grace Church
-choir, Mr. Charles H. Sunderland, leader, Mrs. T.N. Glover, Mrs.
-McAvoy, Mrs. Sunderland, the Misses D. Stevens, B. Stevens, Fanton,
-Williams, Reece, Johnstone, Smith, Elliott, Semken, Cosse and Haywood,
-and Messrs. Douglass, Barrows, Elliott, MacAdee, Parker, Critchley,
-Ahrens, Burns, Brown, Green, Shaw and Wilkins; tableaux: Miss Maude
-MacHarg, Mr. Wilkin Bookstaver and the rest of the company.</p>
-<p class="figleft">
-<img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt="pic"  />
-</p>
-
-
-<p>Another entertainment took place Thursday, July 28, which was very
-successful, the net proceeds being $91, and was sent to Jacksonville
-to provide better food for the sick of the company. The entertainment
-was managed by Mrs. W.E. Fullagar, who took considerable interest
-in the welfare of the company (she and her husband being with us at
-Jacksonville and Pablo Beach for nearly a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> month). Those taking part
-deserve to have a place in this narrative, and they follow: Mrs. M.
-Casta, Mr. Louis Baxter, Miss Mae Games Amery, Mr. L. Botting, Miss
-Nettie Dannheim, Mr. Arthur H. Hargrave, the Concordia Maennerchor
-of Carlstadt, Miss Mabel Taylor King, and six members of the Kirmess
-"Hornpipe Dance." Captain Ely, home on furlough, told anecdotes of camp
-life, which were very interesting. Another entertainment took place the
-week we arrived home, the proceeds of which were given to the Relief
-Committee.</p>
-
-<p>One year had passed when the company again assembled upon the
-anniversary of its return from camp life; old friendships were renewed,
-and yarns spun, while the good things disappeared at the well-spread
-table.</p>
-
-<p>September 30th, 1899, the company paraded through the streets of New
-York on the occasion of the welcome to Admiral George Dewey, and all
-along the line patriotic citizens gave its enthusiastic endorsement of
-the manly devotion to the flag which L Company maintained through five
-months of trying camp life in Southern climes.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p>
-<p class="ph2">PART SEVENTH</p>
-
-
-
-
-<p class="ph3">ROSTER OF L COMPANY.</p>
-
-<table summary="toc" width="55%">
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">CAPTAIN.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="right"><i>P.O. Address.</i></td></tr>
-
-<tr><td>Addison Ely</td> <td align="right"> Rutherford, N.J.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">FIRST LIEUTENANT.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Joseph J. Blake</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">SECOND LIEUTENANT.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Robert A. Brunner</td><td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">FIRST SERGEANT.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Edward M. Clift</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Addison Ely, Jr.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">SERGEANTS.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Charles Dabinett</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Frank Van Roden</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>John T. Collins</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Frederick W. Baxter</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">CORPORALS.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>George H. Roe</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hugh R. Rusk</td>   <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Bennett Cohen</td>   <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>George W. Petty</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>William M. Cormack</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Robert A. Burgess</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Frank Koch</td>   <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Harry C. Harrington</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Walter Vandenburgh</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>John Festanau</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Walter S. Major</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Frank T. Yerreance</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">MUSICIANS.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>John F. Quinn</td>  <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>William Allen</td>  <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">ARTIFICER.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Julius W. Doerflinger</td>   <td align="right">Woodridge.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">WAGONER.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>William Jonsen</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-
-
-
-<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">PRIVATES.</td></tr>
-
-
-<tr><td>Alverson, August</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Balletto, Frank</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Baxter, Charles H.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Brazer, William</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Beutelspacher, Theodore</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Clift, George S.</td>  <td align="right">Passaic.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Clark, John E.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Craig, Robert L.</td>  <td align="right">Little Ferry.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Crear, Lyman S.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Connelly, John</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Dabinett, John</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Dabinett, Henry R.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Dehn, Lawrence C.</td>  <td align="right">Lyndhurst.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Doyle, Thomas W.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>DeWitt, William</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Earley, Albert</td>   <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Fake, Guy L.</td>   <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Fullagar, John E.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Feder, David</td>   <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Gaffney, Peter</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Gillen, Alexander P.</td>  <td align="right">Washington, D.C.</td></tr>
-<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span>Girard, Emile L.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Greuter, Valentine</td> <td align="right">Woodridge.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Greuter, Frank J.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hey, Alfred J.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hannon, Thomas O.</td> <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Heintzman, Louis E.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hollenstein, George W.</td> <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hope, Edward F.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hobson, Winfield B.</td> <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hollenbeck, Charles</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Hopper, Irving</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Horton, Jay T.</td>   <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Huen, Henry A.</td>   <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Kotzenberg, John J.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Kellerman, Otto</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Killmer, Edward W.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Kent, Walter D.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Lees, William C.</td> <td align="right">Jersey City.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Major, Daniel</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Miller, John W.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Miller, William H.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Miller, James A.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>MacDonough, Thomas</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Macher, Walter</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>McKeown, James F.</td> <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>McIntyre, Thomas</td> <td align="right">Kingsland.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>McBride, William H.</td> <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Newman, Henry</td>  <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Newland, Charles W.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Nohrden, Otto</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>O'Niel, William H.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span>Parkhill, John</td>  <td align="right">Carlton Hill.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Platz, Henry</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Reddy, Peter</td>   <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Rhoads, Henry W.</td>  <td align="right">Carlton Hill.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Rodgers, Robert</td>  <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Rohrbach, Aaron</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Ratsch, John</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Schrieber, Curt</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Schrieber, John J.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Schaefer, Louis</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Schulz, Otto</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Smith, John</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Smith, Walter F.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Smith, Gustav</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Stephens, John J.</td> <td align="right">Carlton Hill.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Stephens, J.</td>  <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Stevens, Arthur W.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Stevens, Frank W.</td>  <td align="right">Hasbrouck Heights.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Toense, Albert</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Thompson, Matthew</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Trent, Decatur</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Van Roden, Arthur C.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Van Caders, Cornelius</td> <td align="right">Hackensack.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Van Austinbridge, Nicholas</td>  <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Ward, George E.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Wallis, Charles H.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Weber, Oscar</td>   <td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Willis, Edgar E.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Willis, Joseph T.</td> <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Wirtz, William</td>   <td align="right">Paterson.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Wilson, Isaac, Jr.</td>  <td align="right">Rutherford.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Yetter, Conrad </td><td align="right">Carlstadt.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span></p>
-
-
-<p class="ph3">PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, ETC.</p>
-
-
-<p>Captain Ely, Provost Marshal, City of Jacksonville.</p>
-
-<p>Sergeant Ely, Brigade Color-Sergeant.</p>
-
-<p>Sergeant Collins, Regimental Color-Sergeant.</p>
-
-<p>Corporal Vandenburgh, Clerk at Corps Headquarters.</p>
-
-<p>Private Alverson, promoted to be Artificer, vice Doerflinger, reduced
-at his own request.</p>
-
-<p>Private Baxter, discharged for disability.</p>
-
-<p>Private Crear, transferred to Troop B, 2d U.S. Vol. Cavalry.</p>
-
-<p>Private Doyle, Clerk to Provost Marshal.</p>
-
-<p>Private Gillen, transferred to hospital at Washington, D.C.</p>
-
-<p>Private Greuter, Corral Master with rank of Lance Corporal.</p>
-
-<p>Private Hild, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.</p>
-
-<p>Private Horton, stenographer, Adjutant's office.</p>
-
-<p>Private Kent, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>Private Killmer, promoted to be Corporal, September 1, 1898.</p>
-
-<p>Private Linzell, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.</p>
-
-<p>Private Schmidt, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.</p>
-
-<p>Private F.M. Stevens, transferred to Hospital Corps, U.S. Army.</p>
-
-<p>Private Wallis, promoted to be Corporal, September 1, 1898.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p>
-
-
-<p class="ph3">DEATHS.</p>
-
-
-<p>Private Kotzenberg, died August 12, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Carlstadt.</p>
-
-<p>Private Newman, died August 18, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Paterson.</p>
-
-<p>Corporal Cohen, died August 19, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Carlstadt.</p>
-
-<p>Corporal Roe, died August 26, 1898, at Second Division Hospital,
-Jacksonville, Fla., typhoid fever. Buried at Auburn, N.Y.</p>
-
-<p>Private Reddy, drowned August 29, 1898, at Pablo Beach, Fla. Buried at
-Lyndhurst, N.J.</p>
-
-<p>Lance Corporal Frank Greuter, died November 7, 1898. Buried at
-Carlstadt.</p>
-
-<p>Private Valentine Greuter, died July 29, 1899. Buried at Carlstadt.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span></p>
-
-
-<p style="margin-left: 20%;">
-<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"God bless our native land</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Firm may she ever stand</span><br />
-<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Through storm and night."</span><br />
-</p>
-
-<p class="center">
-<img src="images/illus08.jpg" alt="pic"  />
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