Two Years in the United States Volunteer Army, Or Around the World Under . the Stars and Stripes PDF Download

Author: Louis A. Stone
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230447032
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Languages : en
Pages : 46

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... A trip to the east in the U. S. army. By H. 6. Maxey, Ex-Soldier, Sturgis, Ky. When the Spanish American war broke out I became of the opinion that nothing surpassed the glory and splendor of the American Army, hence I made up my mind to join the Regulars and fight under the Red, White and Blue. I enlisted in Co. "C" 20th United States Infantry at Memphis Tenn., in the fall of 1900. We remained in Memphis only four or five days, after which the recruits were loaded on Pullman sleeping cars and the start was made; the objective point being San Francisco, Cal., where we were to board a transport for the Philippines. At Kansas City we p-'uked up a bunch of cowboys, who had enlisted in the Cavalry and were enroute to the Philippines with us. These Texas Rangers had never seen a Pullman sleeper and we had quite a little fun at their expense. They did not know how to manage the getting in and out of bed and kept up so much racket over their bed rooms that the train crew soon gave up the whole car to these Rangers and placed the other passengers in a car where they could get away from the noise of the dissatisfied sleepers. There was no other fault to these men except their ignorance of a sleeping car. I had occasion to meet them on the firing line a long time afterward and found them to be excellent soldiers and not afraid of the duty that they had come over to perform. I must relate one other incident that hap-ned on our way out west At one of the stations one of the men got off the train and went to buy something in one of the stores near the train shed. In coming out of the door he saw the train fast disappearing and made a rush to catch it. He had forgotten that he had gone up a flight of stairs in getting into the store, and when he made...