August 26 — Saturday 1899
Everyone is happy and we have our boxes strapped. Had a “rough house” just to celebrate.
Everyone is happy and we have our boxes strapped. Had a “rough house” just to celebrate.
It was map sketching they wanted me for. About 8 A.M. Lieut. Ferguson, myself and one man as guard started out on the road to… Read More »August 26, 1899
The steamer went alongside the wharf at 6 a.m. and we disembarked. We had spent 43 days on the ‘Sherman’ and 3? days on the… Read More »August 25, 1899
Rumors are now changed to certainties, & we are going home soon.
Dawned clear but soon clouded. The men who did not bring the mosquito bars could not sleep for the insects. Had mine and was very… Read More »August 25, 1899
Wrote to several persons and finished packing boxes. Turned in our Krags, and reissued ‘bolos.
Slept nearly all day when I was not eating. Country around here a vast marsh of rice fields. The town is about a mile away.… Read More »August 24, 1899
Rain all day. Wrote home & to Miss Crawford. Mosquitos very troublesome last night. Heard heavy guns –perhaps some foreign war vessel saluting Old Glory.
Was sitting on my bunk killing time. It was pouring outside, when I heard the sudden hurry in the barracks which always denotes that a… Read More »August 23, 1899