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Fourth Division. Martin Dewey, J. L. Eaton, John Smith, D. H. Whittlesy, J. L. Whittlesy, W. H. Sargent (Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry), J. C. Brock, W. H. Frizell, Ira Al- len, Ethan Allen, S. Lewis, George Marshall, Thomas Parks, Theo. Ballon, D. Cramer, N. Case, D. M. Davey, James Bliss, Ser- geant Childers, Jonas Parish, Thomas Walsh, Charles Francis, J. H. McDonald, William Gammon, George Gammon, John C. Metcalf, S. G. Sisson, Jacob Heller, William Bates, William Brun- dage, Clark Popple, A. D. Maxfield (Company E, Third Wiscon- sin Cavalry), Timothy Vantile, George Phelps (Company B, Fif- ty-second Wisconsin Infantry).
Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65 Buried at Mount Oli- vet Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
Fifth Division. Ed. Kelly, - O'Flarety, - O'Flar- ety, - O'Flarety, M. McKeigue, P. Connors, M. Dooley, John Herrington, Nick Weelson, John Dougherty, A. Keenan, J. Daly, John Ring, Pat Kelly, Ed. McCormick, M. Larkin, J. A. Little, R. Brooks, Thomas Holleran, A. M. Russell, M. Murphy, John Lawton, John R. Ryan, Dennis Ryan, Joseph Wallace, James O'Brien, D. Morety, D. C. Denning, James Dumphy, William Mur- phy, Charles Fox, John O'Leary, Patrick Riley, Thomas Croak, W. H. Campbell, S. Stickney, Thomas Baker, Thomas Mackin, John Lawler.
Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65, of the Town of Har- mony, Buried at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Wisconsin.
Alexander Taylor, H. H. Wilcoxs, B. W. Palmer, Ira Clark, William Edgar Sr., Wm. Edgar Jr., C. L. Glass.
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Soldiers and Sailors of the War of 1861-65 Buried at Mt. Pleas- ant Cemetery, Town of Janesville, Wis.
John J. Bear, Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry; W. C. Pope; A. L. Cutts, Company E, Fifth Wisconsin Infantry ; G. D. Flagler, Company G, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry ; J. B. Har- vey, Company E, Twenty-second Wisconsin Infanty ; A. Daggett, Company E, Fifth Wisconsin Infantry ; A. Heacock, Seventh Wis- consin Infantry; W. A. Harvey, surgeon, Seventh Wisconsin; Albert Butts, Company E. Fifth Wisconsin; Sylvester Flagler, Company A, Fortieth Wisconsin; James Ingle, Company F, Thir- ty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry.
Soldiers Buried in Emerald Grove Cemetery.
Lieutenant D. Duane Wemple, U. S. N., died December 24, 1864; Captain A. Zeily Wemple, Company F, Thirty-third Wis- consin Volunteer Infantry, died March 9, 1863; George Playter, Company A. Fortieth Wisconsin, died Memphis, Tenn., August 15, 1864; Isaac Earle, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Vol- unteers, died at New Madrid, Mo., June 21, 1863; Isaac Earle, Jr., Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died September 17, 1880; Frank Thompson, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, died October 13, 1878; Elbridge S. Smith, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died at Lawrence, Kan., May 5, 1862; Henry A. Jones, Company M, Second Wisconsin Cav- alry, died at Vicksburg September 25, 1864; Adam Airis, Com- pany B, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died at Lawrence, Kan., April 18, 1862; Nelson Butler, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died June 9, 1884; Charles Beaumont, Company B, Thirty-seventh Illinois, buried June 29, 1891; Joseph Luke - -; Thomas C. Chamberlain, Company M, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died March 17, 1889; Albert Warner, died May 27, 1887; S. S. Warner, Com- pany A, Fifth Regiment, died November 4, 1891; Myron Hart, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin, died April 1, 1896; John M. Davis, first lieutenant Fifteenth New York, died January 28, 1900; George H. Meloy, Thirteenth Minnesota, died June 28, 1900; Veder S. Davis, Company F, Thirteenth Regiment, died August 4, 1903; Stephen Higby, Fifth New York Artillery, died May 24, 1907.
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List of Soldiers Buried in the Grove Cemetery, Town of Center, Rock County, Wis.
Eden Harvey, Company D, First New Jersey Cavalry, died December 31, 1867; William W. Wiggins, Fifth Wisconsin Vol- unteer Infantry, died April 17, 1903; J. B. Frazier, Company A, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died in 1862; Ralph M. Tappan, died February 18, 1870; William I. Hakes, Company H, Forty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died November 18, 1865; George A. Clark, Company F, Sixteenth Wisconsin Vol- unteer Infantry, died May 4, 1864; Arvah F. Cole, Battery D, First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, died October 17, 1865; James H. Brown, Company M, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died Novem- ber 25, 1892; Stephen W. Newbraugh, Company M, First Wis- consin Cavalry, died April 9, 1865; William H. Wallace, Com- pany M. Second Wisconsin Cavalry, died March 11, 1865; John L. Snyder, Company G, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died June 16, 1864; George Robinson, died September 29, 1865; D. McDonal, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, died January 24, 1893.
List of Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Bethel Cemetery, Town of Center, Rock County, Wis.
Gilman B. Austin, sailor; Elias Fockler; Jacob Hetrick, Com- pany F, Thirty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; Adam Korn, Second U. S. Dragoons; Joseph Thompson, Company F, Thirty- third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; George Thompson; Syl- vanus F. Wallihan, Company D, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry ; Milton Wells, Company H, Sixteenth West Virginia Volunteers ; John Witham; Lorenzo Witham; Horace Wright.
Soldiers and Sailors of War of 1812.
Joseph Davis, Gilman Goodrich. Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Town of Rock Cemetery. - Bennett, George Groner, Stephen Cary, William Gunn, Company F, 145th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Summary.
Rock Town Cemetery 4 Janesville Town 13
WILLIAM H. WHEELER.
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Harmony Town 7
Mt. Olivet, City, Janesville. 39
Oak Hill, City, Janesville 170
Emerald Grove 20
Grove Cemetery, Center 14
Bethel Cemetery, Center 11
Beloit cemeteries
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August, 1898, total 478
Governor Harvey.
Condensed from Love's "Wisconsin in the War."
Louis Powell Harvey was born in East Haddon, Conn., July 22, 1820, and at eight years of age went with his parents to Strongville, Ohio. They were hard workers and trained him to manual labor, but he was eager for an education. Thrown upon his own resources before he was nineteen years old, he yet man- aged to enter the freshman class of the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, in 1837, but left at the end of the junior year on account of ill health. He was a favorite among his fellow students and left behind him the reputation of brilliant natural talent and a character without stain. After teaching two years in Kentucky he came to Southport (now Kenosha), Wis., in 1841, and in December, 1841, opened an academy there. Two years later he added the duties of editor of the Southport "American," a Whig paper, which he made spirited and vigorous. He was a temperance man, for a short term postmaster, and always in- terested in the public schools.
In 1847 he married Miss Cordelia Perrine and, moving to Clinton, Wis., began there mercantile life. Later he moved to Shopiere, Rock county, purchased the water-power, tore down the distillery that had cursed the village, and in its place built a flouring mill and established a retail store. Mainly by his in- fluence and gifts the Congregational church there, to which he belonged, was housed in a neat stone edifice, and his uncle, Rev. O. S. Powell, settled as its pastor. In the fall of 1853 Mr. Harvey was elected to the senate of Wisconsin, then to be secretary of state, and in the autumn of 1861 was made governor by a very large majority. Governor Harvey's message following his in- auguration, the first annual message after the opening of the
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war, was declared equal to that of any executive Wisconsin ever had, and strongly upheld the national administration. He was a good public speaker and a man of great practical sense.
Immediately after the bloody battle of Pittsburg Landing Governor Harvey gathered ninety boxes of the most serviceable supplies for the soldiers-sixty-one boxes from Milwaukee, thir- teen from Madison, nine from Janesville, six from Beloit and one from Clinton-and personally accompanied them to see that the supplies were properly distributed to our wounded and sick Wis- consin boys. His interviews with these at Cairo, Mound City, Paducah and in the hospitals and on the hospital boats, his warm grasp of the hand and word of cordial sympathy, brought tears of joy to the faces of many brave soldiers and good cheer to their hearts. At Savannah, where more than 200 of our wounded sol- diers were suffering from neglect and lack of care, his coming and kindness and care for them caused scenes so affecting that the feelings of both governor and men would often be too strong for words.
While he was ascending the river to Pittsburg occurred the day appointed for national thanksgiving. At a meeting held in the steamer cabin, when the president's proclamation was read, Governor Harvey, joining in the service, made not only a patri- otic but also a religious address. He was a manly Christian. Such was the high respect in which he was held that rough men never used rough language in his presence. Governor Harvey's arrival at the camp of the Wisconsin regiments at Pittsburg Landing, where were hundreds of sick and wounded men who had been rushed into battle only a few weeks after leaving their state, caused in all their hearts a thrill of joy. He worked con- tinually among the men, seeking in every possible way to relieve their sufferings and to renew their courage and hope; he also carefully ascertained who had distinguished themselves in battle and took their names in order to give them well-deserved promo- tion, a good resolve prevented only by his own death. Saturday morning, April 19, 1862, Governor Harvey went ten miles down the Tennessee river to Savannah to take there next morning a steamer for Cairo. After the party had retired for the night, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, the "Minnehaha" hove in sight, and Governor Harvey with others took position near the edge and fore part of his steamer. the "Dunleith," ready to pass to the ap-
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proaching boat. As the bow of the "Minnehaha" swung around close to the party on the "Dunleith" Governor Harvey stepped on one side, and, the night being dark and rainy, slipped and fell between the two steamers. The current was strong, and not- withstanding the frantic efforts of several brave friends he was, it is supposed, drawn under a flatboat near by and so drowned. A long search was made for the body in vain, but some days later it was discovered by children at a point about sixty-five miles below. The remains, hastily buried there, were afterwards brought to Madison and with public services of respect duly in- terred in Forest Hill Cemetery near the capital, Rev. M. P. Kin- ney, of Janesville, conducting the religious service. Lieutenant- Governor Edward Salomon appointed Thursday, May 1, a day of rest to commemorate Governor Harvey's death. At the state capitol he introduced the services by an appropriate address, and President A. L. Chapin of Beloit College pronounced a fit- ting eulogy. Similar services were held in various places through- out the state. The public press was draped in mourning, and the people grieved that their much-loved governor, only forty- two years old, had been taken away in the midst of his days.
Mrs. Cordelia A. Harvey. A fitting accompaniment to this brief biography of Governor Harvey is some mention of his wife, who did so much for our soldiers. His last letter to her, dated Pittsburg Landing, April 17, 1862, had but these three sentences : "Yesterday was the day of my life. Thank God for the impulse that brought me here. I am well and have done more good by coming than I can tell you." That letter and the death of her husband inspired Mrs. Harvey to devote herself to the interests of our soldiers. Asking and receiving permission from Governor Salomon to visit hospitals in the western department as an agent of the state, she went in the autumn of 1862 to St. Louis and vis- ited many general hospitals along the Mississippi river and post hospitals of the Wisconsin troops. The heat was oppressive and contagious diseases prevailed, but she persevered until herself taken ill near Vicksburg in the spring of 1863, when she was obliged to return home to Shopiere, Wis. Deeply impressed with the importance of having general hospitals in the northern states, she went to Washington and saw President Lincoln himself about it. He thought, as did all his army advisers, that hospitals in the North would encourage desertion. Mrs. Harvey, however,
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declared that many of the sick soldiers in our western armies must have northern air or die. Lincoln said that in the Army of the Potomac at the time of the battle of Antietam the United States was paying for 170,000 men, and yet only 83,000 could be mustered for that action. Lincoln sent her to the secretary of war and wrote on the back of her letter of introduction: "Listen to what she says. She is a lady of intelligence and talks sense." Stanton told her that the surgeon-general had gone to New Or- leans-that he would examine the river hospitals and report. Knowing well that his report would agree with the opinion of those above him, she returned in despair to Lincoln and pleaded so earnestly for our suffering boys in blue that an order was issued granting a hospital in Wisconsin, and she was given an order that enabled her to take sick and wounded Wisconsin sol- diers to it. One hundred such cases at Fort Pickering, who were pronounced nearly hopeless, were taken to this Harvey Hospital at Madison, Wis .; seven of them died, five were discharged, and all the rest returned to the service.
Mrs. Harvey continued her work as long as the soldiers re- mained in the field. At the close of the war she obtained from the government the additions it had made to the Farwell man- sion at Madison for the United States Harvey Hospital, and on January 1, 1866, opened that building as a Soldiers' Orphans' Home. In March, 1866, by act of the state legislature and Gov- ernor Fairchild, it became one of the benevolent institutions of the state.
Louis H. D. Crane was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., July 7, 1826, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His father was a strong anti-slavery speaker, and his eldest brother a mis- sionary of the American Board. After graduating from Ham- ilton College he studied medicine a year, then law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1850. After his marriage to Miss Lucy M. Burrall, of Stockbridge, Mass., in the fall of 1852, he came in the spring of 1853 to Beloit, Wis., and taught very acceptably in our Union School No. 1. In 1856 he moved to Dodgeville, Wis., and was promptly elected district attorney of Iowa county. Two years later he was chosen chief clerk of the assembly in the Wis- consin legislature, was reelected annually for four years in suc- cession, and almost unanimously. In 1859 he removed to Ripon, Wis. When the war broke out he was elected lieutenant in the
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Third Regiment, and immediately promoted to the adjutancy. He was made lieutenant-colonel in June and was killed in the action at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, June 1, 1862. The citizens of Beloit, Wis., claimed his body, which after suitable and im- pressive honors was buried at the city cemetery. He was a member of the Episcopal church. The Beloit G. A. R. Post No. 54 is named for him.
THE ROMANCE OF THE WAR.
THE ONE HUNDRED DAYS MEN OF 1864.
I. Going Out.
(For the benefit of a younger generation this article, prepared from old letters and my diary of that time, is added as a sketch of the romance of war.)
The late Spanish or Cuban war enlisted a few of our young men and awakened in our state some popular interest. But the young people of to-day have not felt and indeed cannot fully know that burning excitement which overflowed all our hearts in 1864. Then the very existence of this nation was in danger. There was a high war fever and even the children had it.
Between the years 1861 and 1864 many loyal volunteers had gone to the front from our town and from the college here at Beloit, while we younger boys had been kept at home and at our books until 1864.
Early in that year, however, came the call for several regi- ments to serve for one hundred days and mainly on garrison or picket duty. They would set free and send to the front just as many of Grant's veterans and thus would render good service. To this romance of war even the parents of an only son could not object. College authorities approved. Our beloved Professor Blaisdell enlisted as chaplain and a prominent citizen, Alfred L. Field, served as quartermaster of the 40th.
Besides the enthusiastic meetings down town, we had student gatherings, speeches and war songs in the college chapel, now art room, 2d story, and amid rousing cheers one and another declared it his purpose to enlist.
When Henry D. Porter took that stand, it was suggested that he was too short for the United States requirement. At once a committee was appointed to take him out and measure him.
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Whether that committee stretched Henry or the truth or both or neither is immaterial. They promptly reported that he was exactly at the limit, five feet. (Tremendous cheering.) It should be added that he was never sick, always ready for duty and did good service from the beginning to the end of his term.
Besides many of us town boys, thirty-one from the college classes (about half the whole number) and twenty-five preps enlisted in the 40th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, called the Students' Regiment.
After several days' drilling on the college campus, May 18th, with flags and cheers, we took the cars for Camp Randall (now the Wisconsin University athletic field) at Madison. A ruddy young Norwegian sitting in a car seat near me said in a rather weak voice that his name was George Travis from Illinois. To our great surprise he was arrested and sent off that same evening, because the United States army does not enlist women. May 19. 1864. Last night we had our first camp supper, consisting of bread and coffee without milk or sugar, and then drew blankets and bunks for the night. My bed was a bare board and I slept soundly on it. May 20. Went to Madison University and from the top of the main building sketched our camp. The barracks look like cattle sheds on a fair ground. May 24. Larry Foote and Moffat Halliday are playing cards at my elbow and they slap the table so energetically that it roughens my writing. To that usual army game, however, the 40th adds chess and checkers, with many superior players. Yesterday we signed enlistment papers in triplicate. At our physical examination to-day, when the surgeon came to W. H. Fitch he gave him a playful poke and said : "A man with your chest can go anywhere.". Our college boys all passed. June 1. A dozen of us were furnished with mus- kets and bayonets and stationed at the prison where there are thirty prisoners, mostly deserters. We stood guard all night and found it chilly.
Sunday, June 5th. Chaplain Blaisdell conducted divine ser- vice in the open air behind the captain's quarters on the hill, and a choir of Beloit boys sang. June 7. This afternoon seven com- panies were sworn in. Our Company B. was disposed of second. A lieutenant of the regulars, standing by Colonel Ray, called off our names and unless he stopped us, each answering, "Here," marched down the front and formed in a line to the right. Four
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men from Beloit were refused. The oath was duly administered to the rest and we marched back to our barracks regular soldiers of the United States. Hurrah !
June S. We have to roll out for roll call at 5 a. m., take two hours' drill in the morning, two more in the afternoon and often two hours' battalion drill after supper. This afternoon I was sent with W. A. Cochran and three others to the hospital and we were set to pounding clothes in a barrel. Two hours of that work and one of carrying wood has saved us, however, from twenty-four hours' guard duty, in this rain. Soldiering begins to lose some of its romance. We have to obey orders. June 11th. To-day clothing and guns were issued. Each man got a woolen blanket, $3.25; rubber blanket, $2.48; dress eoat, $7.00; pants, $2.50; shoes, $2.05; woolen shirt, $1.53; drawers, 90c .; stockings, 32c .; knapsack, $1.85 ; haversack, 33c., and canteen, 41c. Amount in greenbacks, $22.62. The cap will be a dollar more. The whole allowance per man was $23.90.
Sunday, June 12th. This hot afternoon we went on parade in full accoutrements, with knapsacks packed. It was decidedly tiresome.
June 14. Called up at half past four a. m. We received rations for three days, hardtack, dried meat and cheese. At 8 a. m. we strapped on our knapsacks, marched to the cars and at last were 'off to the war.' Milton Junction saluted us with flags and the firing of cannon. At Clinton Junction were friends and dear ones from Beloit, kisses, flowers, cheers and more eannon. At Harvard a young lady filled my eanteen with coffee. More girls and flowers. Hurrah! Reaching the old North-Western depot, Chicago, about midnight, we marched the longest way around to the Soldiers' Rest on Michigan avenue, and stacked arms in the street. At 2 a. m., Mr. E. W. Porter, a Beloit gradu- ate, furnished cigars for Company B., and Mr. Clinton Babbitt gave us hungry fellows a feast. It was hot coffee, bread and but- ter and pie plant sauce, sponge cake and a dish of strawberries for each man. After speeches and cheers we marched to the cars and at 4 a. m., June 15, started south. Our progress was attended by enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty. At every city flags were displayed and guns fired, while young and old wished us Godspeed. All kinds of food, fruit and vegetables, including cab-
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bages, were offered us. Old women waved their aprons and young ladies their handkerchiefs. Springfield was one continuous wave, and it was Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! all the way to Alton.
II. In Camp and Coming Back.
From Alton we steamed down the Mississippi and reached Memphis Sunday morning, June 19; temperature, 125 degrees, F. At 11 a. m., having strapped on knapsacks and shouldered arms, we marched through deep dust a long way 'round to a camp ground about two miles from the city limits. In woolen clothes and carrying about sixty pounds each, all found it hot indeed, but got there. Jack Lewis even carried F.'s gun along with his own. On arriving, parched with thirst, early in the evening several of us hunted up an old deserted well, buckled straps together and let down a canteen through weeds and broken curb to the cool water twenty feet below. When it was drawn up gurgling full and put to our dusty lips, then we learned the real meaning of the word Nectar. That first night all slept on the ground without covering.
"Camp Ray, June 20, 1864. Our mess consists of ten Beloit College boys of Company B .: Lyman Winslow, of '65; Fitch, Lewis, Newhall, Fred Curtis and Brown, of '66; Porter and Smith, of '67 ; A. W. Kimball and F. Bicknell. We must do our own cook- ing for awhile, and all take turns. As chief of mess I have drawn a piece of pork, alias 'sow belly,' 11/2 pints coffee, 11/2 pints brown sugar, 1/2 peck of potatoes, 2-3 pint of salt, 1/4 bar of soap and 20 of the six-inch square crackers, called hardtack.
21st. After the usual drill we made of rubber blankets, etc., a mess tent and put up the sign, "Eagle Mess. No Smoking Aloud." For to-day's rations we have 12-3 pints of coffee and the same of sugar, 2-3 pint of vinegar and as much molasses, one quart of rice, one quart of beans, 1/4 bar of soap, one candle, twenty hardtack, and sow belly sufficient. Fitch, Kimball and I are the first cooks. During the night came a thunder-storm and a small river under our blankets. Good-natured Kimball and others turned out amid the downpour in the airiest possible cos- tume and scraped a shallow trench about the tent. Next day several of us were sent to the city with a commissary wagon which we loaded with hay bales and the new tents. Managed to get
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three lemons, 25 cents, one-half pound white sugar, 15 cents, and a lump of ice, so our mess had a treat.
June 24. Sixty having volunteered for picket duty, we took thirty cartridges apiece, with three days' rations of hardtack, marched a mile or two from camp, and were then distributed in stations about thirty rods apart, three men at a station. We stand guard day and night until relieved, each man taking his turn of two hours on guard and four off. It was said that those whose property we were guarding would not give or even sell us anything. Feeling ill, I tried the matronly colored cook of the nearest secesh mansion, and with kind words and a dime got a refreshing cup of tea. That evening Corporal F. went on the same errand. Reported that he marched up to the front piazza where the Atkins family were sitting, asked for a drink of water and they merely pointed him to the well. Said he saw unhealthy symptoms of their unchaining a savage-looking dog, so he left. In the still night during my guard from eleven till one, Comrade Shumaker went over towards that same house jayhawking. Pretty soon there was a loud woof! woof! and S., rushing back empty- handed, with that dog after him, jumped the fence just barely in time. Early next morning visited that house again and made for the cook a small pencil sketch of her little bare-legged grand- son. After that nothing was too good and they gave me the best the house afforded for breakfast. A colored lad called out, "Your relief's just done gone by," so I hurried back to my sta- tion convinced that those negroes were loyal. Sunday morning Chaplain Blaisdell preaches. We also have excellent evening prayer meetings, and what some prize far more now, a company cook.
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