Identifier: detroitlightguar00clow (find matches)
Title: The Detroit Light Guard : a complete record of this organization from its foundation to the present day : with full account of riot and complimentary duty, and the campaigns in the Civil and Spanish-American wars : a complete roster of members at the time of muster-out of the United States service, as well as a roster of all classes of members
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Clowes, Walter F. 4n
Subjects: United States. Army. Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 31st United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History War of 1898 Regimental histories
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : J.F. Eby & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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had more purchasing powerin the United States, and as he was unable to cash the orderbefore reaching Montauk Point, it proved to be indeed aGod-send in the end. It is claimed that Aguadores was like Siboney; two of theworst pest holes on the island, and it was not surprising thatthe Michigan boys, having operated and been stationed atboth places, became early victims. Each day in the early part of August, anxious parentsand relatives would eagerly unfold their newspapers andscan the black letters of the mortality list in the Michiganregiments, and just as anxiously read the names in smallertype of convalescents coming north. By the 3rd of August, the transports bearing convales-cents, in quarantine at Egmont, Fla., had on board Gen.Duffield and Col. Boynton, Maj. Webb and twenty-twoprivates of the Thirty-third. Those who had to remain, were subjected to the hardestkind of life. Bad rations was the principal hardship. Theman who has not had to subsist on bad canned beef, and tried 176
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A Comiiany Quartermasters Shack.A Camp View in Cuba.A Quiet Siesta. to push it down with pieces of hard tack, and failing in that,tries to get the improperly prepared coffee to perform thesame duty, and the same thing three times a day, will neverknow what the words ^bad rations mean. They also suffered in the matter of clothing. When theregiment left Camp Alger for Santiago, they were dressed inthe regulation heavy blue uniforms, too warm even for thevicinity of Washington, and entirely unfit for service inCuba. The men were promised new and lighter clothingupon their arrival in Cuba, but immediately upon landing,they were rushed into the precipitate general advance andhad no time to change their clothing, and when they gotback to Siboney, a great deal of their clothing had beenburned up in the general purification of the place, so thatwhile they were encamped at Sardinaris, there was not awhole uniform belonging to any one man. The fever was playing such havoc that Gen. Shafterhimse

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