Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1903 — A Letter From The Camp. [ARTICLE]

A Letter From The Camp.

Howard, Ky., Oct. 2nd 1903. Editor Republican: We arrived in camp yesterday afternoon very tired and sleepy, with 48 men, a fair sizdd company.. Nothing interesting happened till we reached Louisville, we found it a very dirty city mostly negroes. We laid in Louisville several hours and left there at 12 o’clock and on the way to West Point, the train stopped near a 25 acre water melon patch and we soon all had a melon under our arms, when the train started and we had to run to catch it and several dropping their melons. One man got left and had to walk in a distance of 4 or 5 miles, but

the melons were good anyway. West Point is a town of 4 .or 5 hundred inhabitants. We are located about | miles from toward a station about 2 miles from West Point, we have a fine location, a good high place and first choice. Long train loads of soldiers are arriving all the time and any direction you look you can see tents and soldiers. Pait of the soldiers are in part brown. I understand that they are divided in tliat way for sham battles. We have no drills today but are fixing quarters, which are very gocd, and we have large square tents, straw ticks, blankets etc, Our Menu for today is

Boston Baked beans, Tomatoes Hard Tack, and .Coffee. Our Regimental quartermaster has not arrived yet so we have not had any grub issued yet. They all went to bed early last night being very tired and sleepy. There have not been any guards stationed yet This is very poor farming country here very hilly, dry and so hard we can hardly drive our tent poles. The soil is yellow clay. We are all well and in good spirits I will close and write some more tomorrow, when the Y. M C. A. have their tent up and have a good place to write. Corp. Perky Gwin. Howard, Ky.,