History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign (14781904324)

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Title: History of companies I and E, Sixth Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry from Whiteside County. Containing a detailed account of their experiences while serving as volunteers in the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Also a record of the two companies as state troops from the date of organization to April 30th, 1901
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bunzey, Rufus S
Subjects: Illinois Infantry. 6th Regiment, 1882- Illinois Infantry. 6th Regiment, 1882-
Publisher: Morrison, Ill.
Contributing Library: Sauk Valley Community College Learning Resources Center
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois



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cornered.After being captured and killed the meat was cut upinto great hunks about a foot square and brought outalong with a bushel of hard-tack, into which an emptytomato can was thrown, a little water poured over themixture and the whole run down to the ships galley andplaced over the fire a few moments, this they called hash,and it was doled out to the men with all the precautionthat would have been taken had it been angel-food cakewith a prize in every cutting. About an hour after we had gotten on the outside ofour portion of this first course, a pail would be run downto the galley, some coffee dumped in, filled with hotwater and brought out to us. Then the fighting beganand after crawling out of the mix-up we generally found 73 3* 51 •5
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Awaiting Orders. 209 ourselves with a pint of coffee grounds and a tablespoon-ful of coffee. At intervals during the day we would take up ourbelts a few notches; this we continued until nearly timeto turn in for the night, then we would eat a few hard-tack drink a little water, lie quite still until the hard-tackbegan to swell, then slip the belt off quickly and fill upon water. This was necessary to keep the front side ofthe back from coming in contact with the back-bonewhile lying down. Music sounds the sweetest when on the moon-litsea. The reality of this came to us with full force aswe heard the rich, sweet notes of The First BrigadeMarch come pealing across the water from the deck ofthe Rita which carried our band. As the music reachedus, faintly at tirst but clear and distinct as the two vesselsdrifted nearer, a hush fell over the throng of idle soldiersand they eagerly drank in every sound until the positionof the boats changed and the music died away in the dis-tance. Then che