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4 o.'otok p, 11 fs£a,lt; / W* fwkt‘4 wtjnfar. traps w« .fcadj »bd:'ro'dfe to. the d ®potwker#;-fO.. wore, joined; .by about uxtj from Hsrrey. bo^ital, and f |n ‘.about prfour thfjroa. hppsa .cam#, to nor .relief, fcnd canjoto a stand still onSe; morooc 'the bank pf thsJlitoiiippt river. j,-j Wo found everjtBg la ipple pie or-d*r atthis hospital.! After supper-ire Were conducted j te; our ward,, where .we foqbd erdrytbiug to iti.proper.place,and fie At and cleyn that we did not feel at bopie; but we will gotrttsed to it after, a while 1 hope. (Next morning the buglesoaotfedat bajfj .past firp o'clock. L Weexpected to bear tbo order given to fall in, but it proved to be to fail out}, and ooak* yojur. beds in. the. beat shape you aao before.breakfast After six months experience'In tbe hospital, we felt |com* e lent for. this part of our duty. After teak fast we returned to our rooms to raaks,ourselves at home,' How perfect our beds looked 1 so smooth and square, and in a;perfect Hue ! We had.thc sat-i isfaction j of seeing the pillows*: spreads, sod sheets all palled oil aud replaced as tbejr should be by half a dozen different opes. At last ip earns a lady. She put on the finishing stroke, which.was great amusement for the beys. She elevatedI3 rain-I; after folded ddownthe pillows about 5 degrees and utes. mora tr leas, on, one edge this the tops of the sheets were into a triangular shape and turn outside of ail, which reminded bs of a calf running out its tongue to lick thfe end of its nose. We were politely iii-fortnjed that bo.one would be allowed id sit on the beds* At this we bigau to Ipok (round for chairs, but to our diKmiy foucu onlr four in our rOotm for biftoerffoiled only four in our room; for plxieeri of u^. At half past 9 a, m. tbd foctors came round to sse what was wa ittsd ihi *nddid hot tike medicine Over thre*per day tb repair to the reading so we want down stairs. The eh a. seats werj* all occupied before IH arrived. ‘If one left his jt, down Vould go some one'/tse into it. and ho tfotilfl havetb stand tip *‘pr dp ifie next tbicg.,,-7-But (bis will be remedied ij a few days,I presume. After being challenged to Qiid.my room I walked up stairs with indignation. I knew every crook and turn to the right and left, and walked into rny ybora as I* thought, but saw at once that I had not been there before. After sjuite a walk I got back to the reading room, with the determinaticn to learn the way to ray room without a pilot.—-But as I have written, more than you (rill have patience to read. I will dry up. Co; II, 16th Wis. Alf.
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Eau Claire Daily Free Press
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1865
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