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FROM CHICKAMAUGA.Letter From Wm. Ralston Now at Camp Thomas.sWm. Ralston has written a letter to Frank Hughes, from which the fol-|io lowing is gleaned :I am getting along in the army in fine shape. I have been here three weeks and like it very much, and one | lo that is stout and hearty and good natured, is all right. 1 have been inscth. p(the best of health and I think I am■ Vgetting fat. We have to drill six hours |ie! a day, and some of the drills and, skirmishing especially, makes the sweat I (a| come out on a fellow.Ooce in a while a fellow keels over and has to be carried off on a stretch-1 P1 er to the ambulance wagon, where he | th is conveyed to the hospital. There are six fellows in the Second regimentfrom Delphos, two Krutsch boys, Geo.1 ^Hinderleiter, John Hotlzel, Joe. Stant and myself.We have plenty to eat and have two good cooks, and there are two men detailed to help cook four days at a I ari time. I have helped four days in the | ge:cook shanty. The bill of fare is as, offollows: Beef, pork, soup, gravy,beans, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, sugar,'thlt; coffee and bread. I ofThere is a barber here that would i ^like to have a helper. He has. two chairs and says be is about played out.His brother told me that he shaved a Italt; hundred and five men yesterday. They | Ch charge 10 cents for a shave and 25cents for a hair cut. He told me hewould give a swift barber the half be makes and board him. Now if any of you Delphos barbers want to show , your nerve, come at once to Camp Lytle, ten miles fiotu Chattanooga, I pit then inquire for the Second regiment, | ari which is camped about three miles, j from Lytle. * • JI qhII am in the Y. M. C. A. tent writing this letter, and there are about I “ * one hundred fellows around me. The | the tent is well supplied with chairs, WQ tables, pens, ink, envelopes, paper, etc., without any charge. We have to buy 1 mtt our stamps. Give my regards to all.
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1898
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