Chickamauga Letters From Sioux City Journal Correspondent
In Chickamauga correspondent notes pleasant evenings despite dust in streets. Regimental morale aided by music from banjo mandolin and guitar. Northern black soldiers included, southern regiments frown on full enlistment. mascots from Chattanooga drawn to camps. Company L’s “Showball” boy, 11, runs orderly officers’ quarters with devout conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickamauga
Sioux City Journal
Chattanooga
Company L
Uneventful days in Camp Thomas Georgia 1898
Camp Thomas in Lytle Georgia reports a quiet period as Company F reads the Republican and letters from home. Capt. Cooke returns, Lieut. Randall leads drills with corporals in command, rumored promotions loom, cooks praised for service and extra pay noted, with hopes of more lieutenants as the unit grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Thomas
Lytle GA
Republican
Algona
Company F
M. E. Church
Phil C. Hanna
Capt. Cooke
Kirk
Randall
W. E. Ward
Chapin
Anderson
Gilbride
Walter Tellier
Webster Minkler
Camp Life Notes From Twenty-Second Iowa Company F
A Civil War era column describes daily camp life near Camp Bradley. It highlights the YMCA tent, free writing materials, gospel meetings, and quiet routine of drill, meals, and rest. Soldiers, including Private M. A. Turner, await Cuba service while pondering mules, mascots, and humorous mountaineers, with reflections on home letters and camaraderie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.M.C. A
M. A. Turner
Cuba
Cohenour
The
Courier
Campa
Wetegan
Hobson
Camp Bradley
Lowrie Smith
the Fifty-second
State Register
Mississippi
Register
Fifty Second
Fifty-second
Chickamauga Park
Uncle Sam
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Deering and Osborne
Acme Hay Harvester Company
Rock Island
Loudon
California
G. M. Johnson
Brownell & Allred
Boston
Algona, Iowa
John Cronin
B. & F. Liniment
Rockford
D. B. Avey
Majestic
Falkenbainer’s
Dingley & Oor
England
Walker Bros
Ely
A. Gilmour
E. P. Keith
J. W. Wadsworth
M. Schenck
C. B. Hutchins
Frank Devine
Chas, Wooster
Angus
A. E. Stacy
Stussey
the Farmers Milling Co. Incorporated
Algona Roller Mills
J. B. Hofius
Consolidated
J. A. Hamilton & Co
Ludendorff Restaurant
Old Postoffice Building
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