Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Another Southern Lettar. [ARTICLE]

Another Southern Lettar.

In a letter dated Tangm Fla.. May 12,1898, A. D. Lakih, Co. A 4th Infantry says: We fcre still in cams) at Tampa Height* hut we w ill not remain hen J lo*g. An order came in a few how* ago ordering us to fill our beitff and remain in camp ready to malta at the call “to arms,” an order atffcich we have been waiting no long to hear. There are about 12,000 trtfops here now, including 500 Cuban volunteers. The troops an o(Wng in rapidly. We are expecting General Miles here soon. He will be given a warm reception trhen he arrives. The recrurang offices are crowded all the time. About one hundred ambulance wagons arrivhere yesterday. The 9th Infantry stationed next to ns received a present from their Kentucky friends yesterday of a now flag. They hoisted it higb *fawn the pines and fired a aalate 4n honor of the occasion. Tha hand pfayod Dixie and the exenis— saded by ail joining in the song “America.'' I will write further when M reach Cuba. A. Dl Lav, Co. A. 4th U. ft. Inf-