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Title: Springfield in the Spanish American war
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ward, Walter W
Subjects: Massachusetts Infantry. 2d Regt Massachusetts Naval Brigade. Co. H Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Easthampton, Mass., Press of Enterprise Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ound in order to remove the danger of infection, butthe contemplated move was not made and we remained inour last station until the regiment sailed for Montauk Point. On the day after the surrender Col. Clark issued orders fordaily company drills and inspections with a view of givingthe men something to do, he recognizing, as an old soldier,that idleness is the worst possible thing in camp. He andhis superiors realized, however, that the army had passedthrough a most trying, though short campaign, and that themen deserved a rest, but at the same time there were alreadywarnings that the less active the men were, the easier theyfell prey to the climatic diseases of the countr3\ Even afterwe had been in our last camp for a few days, there weresigns that the fever was at work and with our limited supplyof medicines, it was feared that it might become epidemic.That these fears were only too well grounded was soon to bemade manifest. The day following the surrender, Col. Clark and Major 120
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Bowen, the regimental surgeon, established a hospital in anold and dilapidated wooden building a couple of hundredyards in front of our advanced line of trenches and whichhad been used as a railwa) station. It was in poor shape,the roof being partly gone and the flooring bad, but it wasbetter than leaving the sick men in their stuffy little sheltertents or out in the open air. The division hospitals were al-ready overcrowded with wounded and sick men and the reg-imental commanders were notified that they would have tocare for their own sick as best they could. Even as bad asthe building selected for our hospital was, it was looked up-on with envy by the commanding officers of other regimentsand it was even suggested to Col. Clark that he divide it upwith the other regiments of our brigade. Whether it was the camping along the line of the recentlymade trenches, the earth of which was said to be full of ma-larial germs, or tliat the fever was already in the air thatcaused the epidemic a

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