The '98 Campaign of the 6th Massachusetts, U. S. V. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...daily routine, was spent as follows: Roll call 5.15, breakfast 5.30 to 6.30, consisting of bean soup, one half cup to a man, with five hardtacks. The boys have offered a reward to the one finding a bean in his soup. This is followed by one drill in the morning that lasts about one hour. Dinner at 12 noon, which consists of one half cup of rice, a little sugar, and five tacks. One drill in the afternoon lasting one hour. Retreat, lowering The Soldiers' Cemetery, Utuado. the colors, and roll call at 5.15. Supper at six consists of one piece of bacon, five tacks, and one cup of coffee. Five funerals of the natives have passed our barracks to-day, and an odd sight they were, too. They have no procession except when a wealthy person dies; then there is a very small one. The only procession the common folks have is the pall bearers. The coffin, or rather box, is strapped with two long pieces of bamboo, and is carried on the shoulders of the pall bearers, and has no lid. When they reach the cemetery they take the corpse out of the coffin and place it in a small tomb, put a shovel of earth on it, and let it remain there until the worms eat the flesh from the bones; then they take the bones out and pile them up in the corner and put another body in the hole. The wealthier class have a common black coffin like ours and are buried in it and never removed. I saw three corpses yesterday of victims of starvation. They were children of about five to ten years of age and their throats were very little bigger than my two fingers. It was a frightful sight. The cemetery here has a high thick wall around it, and the Spaniards have cut little portholes in it and use them as a sort of breastwork or fort.1 August 28. Dr. Washburn, Lieutenant Sweetser, and J. N. Taylor of the &quo...