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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country. The ship retraced the course of her twin sister when shehad carried the same burden of humanity through theWindward Passage eight weeks before, but the burdenwas not so heavy now, for many were in the hospitals upNorth, tossing upon beds in fever wards and some were do-ing the same back at Siboney. The regiment was returningwith a strength of six hundred under command of lieut.-Col. Schmidt. The ship was roomy, and the boys had nodifficulty in finding comfortable quarters, and there was notmuch fault found with the rations. There were some on board who ought to have beentraveling on a hospital ship, and on the second day out, theboys were made to know that death was upon the water aswell as on the land; a poor wasted body, emptied of itsspirit, slid down to the Oceans graveyard, encased in acanvas shroud. The ship throbbed on with her nose pointing steadilynorthward, until, in the early morning, she hove to beforethe thick curtain of fog which shut off from the impatient 180
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men the sight they longed and thrilled for. It was eightoclock ere old Sol came to the rescue and let the boys seethe Homeland. Montank Point on Long Island, was asstrange a place to them aa was the island just left in thetropics, but was it not a piece of the great land that ex-tended back to Michigans hill and trees? Certainly it was,and there was Gen. Alger calling to them from anotherboat and telling them it was so, and that he was sorry tohave to also tell them that they must wait five days beforethey could start for those hills and trees, but that the gov-ernment was trying to be good to them, and would givethem a months pay to start them home -with, and wouldpay them double the amount extra for resting two months.Then later, as the great ship swung slowly up against thedock and the band played Michigan My Michigan as ifit would die of broken heart if detained, Gen. Alger metand grasped the hand of each Michigan boy—sometimeswe call them men in forgetfulness—as they stepped

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