331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . SUPPLY COMPANY A 551SJ Field Artillery,/^. Wagoner F. M. Schmitz Alter the batteries were all set, the tired wagonerswere privileged to unhitch in their corner of the campsite and to chaperone their mules a mile or so to awatering place all nicely bogged up by the batteriesalready watered. As a matter of fact, the men usuallygot more water than the stock. But at any rate theSupply Company warriors were always a happy lotand always got their chow by eight or nine oclockat night and didnt have anything to do till nearlyfive in the morning. f
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . SUPPLY COMPANY A 551SJ Field Artillery,/^. Wagoner F. M. Schmitz Alter the batteries were all set, the tired wagonerswere privileged to unhitch in their corner of the campsite and to chaperone their mules a mile or so to awatering place all nicely bogged up by the batteriesalready watered. As a matter of fact, the men usuallygot more water than the stock. But at any rate theSupply Company warriors were always a happy lotand always got their chow by eight or nine oclockat night and didnt have anything to do till nearlyfive in the morning. fl| To make a long story short, the Company acquitted itself most creditably despite a series of hills and sandyroads and mud and cyclones which even went so faras to blow a wagon over the fence during the wellknown night at Poynette. The caravan finally wendedits way to Tomah and with screaming brake blocks,made the last tortuous descent into the sandy desertof Sparta. It is to be noted that this last lap of thejourney consumed a whole day, considerably more time than later trips to Tomah,mad
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