He is now with the company at Mount
Ver-non Barracks, Alabama, and Faye has telegraphed the sergeant to
see that he is taken to Pittsburg with the company.
We are going out now, first of all to Michaud's for some of his
delicious biscuit glace! Our city friends are all away still, so there
will be nothing for us to do but wander around, pour passer le temps
until we go to the station.
MONONGAHELA HOUSE, PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA,
September, 1877.
ONCE again we have our trunks packed for the long trip to Montana, and
this time I think we will go, as the special train that is to take us
is now at the station, and baggage of the regiment is being hurriedly
loaded. Word came this morning that the regiment would start to-night,
so it seems that at last General Sherman has gained his point. For
three long weeks we have been kept here in suspense--packing and then
unpacking--one day we were to go, the next we were not to go, while
the commanding general and the division commander were playing "tug of
war" with us.
The trip will be long and very expensive, and we go from a hot climate
to a cold one at a season when the immediate purchase of warm clothing
is imperative, and with all this unexpected expense we have been
forced to pay big hotel bills for weeks, just because of a
disagreement between two generals that should have been settled in one
day.
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