Wednesday, August 24, 1898
There seems to be enough work fixing up quarters here to employ all hands, so we drill not, neither do we loaf. I have been
There seems to be enough work fixing up quarters here to employ all hands, so we drill not, neither do we loaf. I have been
I must tell you where I am writing this from and what my occupation is at present. Last Friday, as I was working in the
I cannot realize that I am ten thousand odd miles from Chicago, and something like eleven thousand from where I enlisted in “this man’s army.”
The exchange here is $2.05 Spanish for $1 American, so we can double the quantity of our pay at anytime. I have bought a broadbrim
The General has gone to the City Government Building as Provost Marshal-General, and has not yet taken me from here. The first day I moved
I have changed my office for a day or two, and am at present assisting Captain M——, General Otis’s aide. One of the clerks in
Thanksgiving Day, yesterday, was somewhat unlike the conventional celebration. I spent the day very quietly. The noon dinner with “C” Company of the Twenty-third was
My order for discharge has come, and through your kindness I am once more in prospect of gaining my civil rights. I can hardly realize