Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War With Spain, 1900, Vol. 8 of 8 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War With Spain, 1900, Vol. 8 of 8 President McKinley. Dear Sir: I write in behalf of our soldier boys. More especially those at Camp Black, because having a son there 1 have more knowledge of that camp. Our National Guard boys, who for years have paid their dues, bought their own dress uniforms, and spent their evenings drilling, and at the first call of their country left good homes and good positions, deserve well of their country in return. I am informed that liard-tack without butter and coffee without sugar are served to the men there. This to men who have perhaps never before eaten a meal in their lives without butter and sugar in plenty seems hard lines. With a country as rich as the United States, and with the best butter only about 10} to 17 cents and sugar about 7 cents, there seems no necessity for such treatment. They are also obliged to sleep on tho ground with some straw for a bed. Many were soaked through by the recent rains. Such things may be necessary in the camp during the clause of an enemy, but heroin the North, with abundance of everything, I can´t see why they should be treated worse than tho average well-to-do farmers treat their dogs or pigs. I am not writing this because of the complaint of the men themselves, but in the interest of humanity-the reason we have undertaken tho war. Dear Sir: Having no one else to whom I can make my complaint, I respectfully ask for a few moments of your precious time, hoping to get some redress when you peruse my statement. I am a patient in this hospital, suffering from malaria contracted at the camp in Thoroughfare Gap. I belong to Company D. Thirty-fourth Michigan Volunteers. I have been here at this place four days. During that time I have mended most rapidly, owing to the better bedding hero than at Thoroughfare. At Thoroughfare yon lay as you please. like hogs in a litter of straw; here the cots and bedding are so comfortable that unless you be very had recovery is certain. Thoro is only one thing to find fault with - one does not get enough to eat to keep up his strength. You got about a pint of sweet milk all the time. Now, what I have to find fault with is: I asked the doctor to let me have an occasional beef tea or coffee instead of the milk; that I was weak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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